Forerunner 110

On Sunday, I ordered the Garmin Forerunner 110 off of Amazon.com after much debate at to what I wanted for a running watch. I read a lot of reviews and finally came to the conclusion that I wanted this one. And it came Tuesday, in a cool little box. Mind you, I'm not the greatest person to review things. I find that just saying "I like this" or "I hated that" suffices. But I will try my hardest.


I busted the thing open as soon as I got it. There was no hesitation from me. Why? I love new technology. When I got my Nextus 10, it was in my hands within seconds of seeing the box. The only downfall was that I had to sit and wait for it to charge up. Sad Jeremie was sad. After a few hours, I turned it on, went outside and had it connect to the satellite so it could put the time and date in. It's really accurate at the time of the picture.


Today I actually used it to go for a jog this morning. I wanted to check how it stood up to my Runkeeper app I have on my iPhone. I've been using Runkeeper since I started running and actually keeping track of it, which has only been a few months. But the watch was bought to replace the app since I felt that I would get a more accurate reading than the app. The problems I really have with Runkeeper on the phone are that it sometimes takes FOREVER to connect to a GPS and that it eats the battery on my phone alive. So I did my run and started them up at about the same time, give or take a few seconds since Runkeeper decided not to sync to a GPS at first. After my Wednesday 3 miler was over, I rushed home to do my other exercises and then uploaded everything to Garmin and Runkeeper. After all was said and done, the results came and I was actually quite pleased with how close Runkeeper was to my Garmin.


After seeing the results were closer to what I actually thought they were to begin with (I always had the feeling that Runkeeper was adding miles onto my total for not connecting to the GPS at random times). I definitely am going to keep using this watch for all my runs, including races. I think it's actually a pretty neat watch, especially for a person who hates watches. And the ability to upload my runs to GarminConnect is pretty sweet.