Intriguing: New Garmin fitness tracker/GPS

davemunger

Interesting concept. A fitness tracker with some "serious" running features as well. Is this the holy grail for runners? Or a compromise doomed to failure?

http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,2817,2457461,00.asp

ZenInTexas

Looks pretty good to me!!

davemunger

On first glance it seems to me like a fitness tracker with some running features thrown in. If it was the other way around, I'd be more interested. Gotta have my barometric altimeter!

davemunger

DC Rainmaker, as usual, has some very thorough first thoughts on the unit:

http://www.dcrainmaker.com/2014/05/garmin-fr15-firstlook.html

TheBrolympus

Most of the Garmin watches are too bulky for me to consider them as a watch I would wear all the time.

davemunger

Most of the Garmin watches are too bulky for me to consider them as a watch I would wear all the time.

This is the same form factor as the Forerunner 10 which is fairly small (although still bulkier than a lot of watches).

thepetiterunner

It's an interesting idea but I have the Garmin Forerunner 220 and the price point isn't low enough where I'd really consider having both. That and while my OCD side would LOVE to have a fitness tracker for all hours of the day, I wonder if it wouldn't make me a little *too* obsessive about calories in and out and moving about and all that jazz. Don't know if my sanity could handle it.

sinister2014

DC Rainmaker, as usual, has some very thorough first thoughts on the unit:

http://www.dcrainmaker.com/2014/05/garmin-fr15-firstlook.html

the data geek side of me could spend all day on his site.