I am looking for a good GPS watch that isn't that bulky/heavy.
Even though it is a bit bulky, I like the Garmin Forerunner 205. I love it and use it a lot, especially on trail runs. It records distance, elevation changes, pace, calories burned, and all sorts of other stuff. For about an extra fifty dollars more, you can get the Forerunner 305 which has a heart rate monitor.
Mail this postI have a GPS for my car. But do they have a GPS that can be handheld or wrist-worn that is audio?
Of course!!!
Here's one
http://www.geek.com/hwswrev/conel/gpswatch/index.htm
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Ok so lets say you suspect your spouse of cheating or at least not being honest about where they have been, so you get them a GPS watch because you cant spend your day following them or calling, will you be able to check their location if they have the watch on? How do they work exactly? I was also told about GPS I could put in the car, but it seems they have to be charged by a cigarette lighter, and how obvious is that if they can see it charging!
....Sounds like you have some trust issues. Why are you married to someone you don't trust...doesn't make any sense.
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i am a distance runner, and i am looking into GSP watches...i dont need anything too fancy or overly expensive...just something that can track my mile pace
I am suggestion :
1. Garmin 010-00679-05 Forerunner 50 Sports Watch with Heart Rate Monitor
2. Garmin 010-00679-25 Forerunner 50 with Heart Rate Monitor and Foot Pod
3. GARMIN 010-00329-05 Forerunner 101 Personal Training Device
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I am a runner and a biker i do over on average 200 miles a week on my bike, and about 35 miles running should I consider a GPS watch are they useful?
I have the Garmin 201 and I absolutely love it. I talked two of my friends into buy the new 205 and 305... They wonder how they ever ran without them. You can keep track of your pace, distance, and with the 305 you can measure your heart rate. You can also load training plans and routes on your computer and then input them into your 305. Training plans can be based on a target heart rate, distance, or pace. You can aslo set it for interval training and what not. I use the Motion Based software that you can access from anywhere once you upload your data and you can get weather and other data. It really depends on you and your goals. My friends and I are training for a marathon and it is great for keeping good data on your mileage and progress.
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Hi, I am going on a cruise soon and was wondering if when I run on the track that is on the cruise, will the distance and pace results of my Garmin Forerunner 450 (gps running watch) be messed up because of the ship's motion?
Although I don't have such a watch, I'm quite sure the answer is yes. GPS determines the longitude and latitude and calculates distance, speed, etc from that. Your cruise ship should have a sign on the walking deck that states how far one lap is.
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I enjoy running in the woods and around the farmland where I live. I would like to keep track of the miles I log and also not get lost. Also there are a lot of hills here also. Can anyone reccomend a inexpensive GPS watch?
Try Amazon have many a gps watches maybe can help you.
1.Garmin Forerunner 305 GPS
2.Suunto Altimax Wrist-Top Computer Watch with Altimeter and Barometer
3.Navman R300 GPS Speed and Distance Sport Watch
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I am about to start training for my 3rd marathon and would like to invest in GPS watch to tell me my pace/distance. I know the Garmins are popular, but also expensive. I don't want to buy a watch that has more functions that I need but I do want a reliable watch that won't loose satellite signals easily. Any suggestions on what to buy or not to buy?
The Garmin Forerunner 205 would be your best bet, you can google it and find it on some online sites for around $150. Don't get any of the older models of Garmin such as the 50 or 201, I've heard they are the ones which lose receiption when in wooded or tree lined areas.
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Long gone are the days when humans had to rely solely on the stars to know their general position on the earth. Today we have the highly accurate GPS (Global Positioning System) satellites that rotate around the earth, constantly transmitting information. This information can then quickly be analyzed by computers to trilaterate the receiver's exact position to within a few yards. That is information much more accurate than looking at starts.
This technology has rapidly advanced since it was initially created. Since then we can now put one of these GPS receiving devices in something a small as a watch, bringing GPS technology down to the personal level.
A GPS tracking watch will do all the normal things a watch can do - fit on your wrist, tell the time, and look really cool for all the ladies (or gentlemen). But GPS tracking watches also allow you to do some other things that really can enhance certain aspects of your life, like your fitness routine.
It can do this because GPS technology enables it to track and record things like your location, velocity, and altitude. This basic information can be used to generate maps within the watches computer so that you know the location where you started and the course you took away from that starting point if ever you want to return. Not only can you save a starting point, but you can also set "way points" as you find interesting objects or landmarks.
Since gps watches are also computers they have the ability to record and receive additional data. This is particularly useful to the person training for some type of athletic event. Triathletes, marathon runners, kayakers, cyclists, and even sprinters can benefit from one addition piece of equipment - a heart rate monitor.
A heart rate monitor does exactly what you might expect, it measures the heart rate of the person wearing it. These are normally bands that you wrap around your chest underneath your shirt as they require direct skin contact. Then they transmit your heart rate information to your watch which it then records along with all your other data.
This can be very useful in analyzing which parts of your workout or training regimen works your heart the hardest. It can even help you during a race to help you pace yourself or to become aware that your heart rate is getting to high and that you need to pull back a little to ensure that you have the energy to continue. The more information that you have the better equipped you will be at making the right training and race day decisions.
Once you have all this information (distance traveled, speed, heart rate, change in elevation) it would take forever to process all of it yourself. Here again the GPS tracking watch has you covered. Most makes come with some type of analysis software or easy to use web applications.
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GPS has in the last few years become one of the many things that human beings cannot do without. Get into a taxi cab anywhere in the Western world, and the driver will be navigating by means of a GPS sat nav system. Most motorists now have a GPS sat nav, and use it even for drives across the centre of a city. So it was only a matter of time until an alternative for pedestrians presented itself. And now it has – watches with GPS.
Buying a GPS enabled watch is the answer pedestrians have been looking for to the problem of arriving in an unfamilar city with little knowledge of the street layout or where one is going. Some personal GPS systems have been developed, but up to now all have been mobile phone-based and have therefore been impractical for the purpose of navigating around an unfamilar city. Unless you like being mugged, anyway.
Popular gps running watches:
Garmin Forerunner 50 Sports Watch with Foot Pod
Garmin Forerunner 405 Green GPS-Enabled Sports Watch with USB ANT Stick & Heart Rate Monitor
Garmin Forerunner 405 Black GPS-Enabled Sports Watch with USB ANT Stick
Watches with GPS are still towards the expensive end of the market, preventing large-scale market penetration for the time being. But this need not be the case for long. Once prices fall – and competition and further development dictate that they will – then the GPS watch will become an option for more and more people. Which will hopefully put a stop to at least a few of the opportunistic muggings that make a tourist’s life so hard.
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