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Originally Posted by metallicat
I have started to run pretty much every year since I turned 20, but always give up. This year I joined a Running Room program that lasts for 10 weeks and the end goal is a 10k race on St Patricks Day. I'm pretty excited. I am actually motivated to keep going now that I'm part of a class and not just running on my own.
I'm looking for a running/fitness watch of some kind. I don't really know what I want, other than it must have GPS so I know how far I've gone. And then I would like to be able to put the data into my laptop or even an app to record where I went and all that stuff. Any recommendations? I also don't want to spend hundreds of dollars. Thanks in advance.
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So as an update to this, I bought a FitBIt Charge 2, and at first I really enjoyed it and thought it was great. And then I started running with my clinic instructor, and the distance accuracy is incredibly poor on my Charge 2. My instructor is a marathon runner and knows the routes, and I trust her distances. We ran 8.xx km the other day, and my watch said it was 9.33 km or something. It was off by .5 - 1 km over that distance, which to me is unacceptable.
So it's getting sold. Too late to return it now unfortunately.
But I'm trying to decide now on what to get to replace it. It is down to the Fitbit Ionic and the Garmit Vivoactive 3. Both seem to be very good and they have a lot of similarities. Just not sure what to do at this point. I might buy both and return the one I like the least.