Can my husband 'find me' while I am running with the live tracking? Wonder if good to also find someone during a marathon?
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You can enter email addresses for people to find you. They get an email once you start your live tracking and they can follow you along your whole run. The only down side is that for live tracking you need to carry your phone on you for the run. The Garmin connects via Bluetooth to your phone and it uses that signal. I have gotten used to carrying my phone in my FlipBelt, so it's not all that bad any more. I run alone so it's probably best that I have my phone anyway.
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Yes, it does. Once you go online to garmin connect, there is a lot of information available about your activity. As Bart said, not so much on the watch as you run.
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I've only had a problem once, while running in downtown San Francisco. I couldn't get a signal between the tall buildings. Worked perfectly in the Boston Marathon this year. My wife could track me on her iPhone the whole way.
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Yes. if you want someone to be able to track you as you run, you need to pair the Forerunner 220 with a smart phone running an app from Garmin.
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Well, it depends how one interprets that question. If you want it to track how far you've traveled in a database (or electronic log file) so you can go back and review your mileage later then NO. However, if you want to tell how many miles you are RIGHT NOW from a stable or trail head (and which direction to travel as the crow flies to get back to your point of origin), then YES. This device only tracks REAL TIME information, and does not store or log anything other than your current location and direction from 1 - 3 way points you've actually traveled to and marked on the device.
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I ran with my Garmin405CX just yesterday on a route that I know is almost exactly 3.1 miles. I've driven it and checked the odometer. I've walked it and counted paces with a pedometer. I've mapped it on Google and Yahoo to the same results. The 405CX absolutely nailed it. If it's an accuracy problem, I'd suspect it is related to location or satellite interference of some kind.
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The tracker works in conjunction with the Sparkpeople website, which is free. I just walk, so I don't have any experience with dancing to answer your question. If you log into the free Sparkpeople website and send an email to their experts, they can help you. Good Luck!
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No however you do not get real time tracking, the unit has to be placed in or on the vehicle and then removed and information downloaded post journey.It seems the most reasonable item out there for the money, i.e. once you have paid for it that's it. It does burn through batteries and if the batteries fail half way through a trip then you seem to lose the rest of the data. It works for us doing random vehicle tracking on day journeys, it may not work if used for a several day road trip.
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Hi, If you have an Ipod Nano you can try the very cheap, in comparison with GPS, Nike+ Sportkit. Once you calibrate it, it is very accurate. All my runs (same route) about 8km only vary on +/- 100m. Hope that helps a little bit.
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Yes you can but from what I can tell, you are unable to view your stats at the same time. You'd be much better off to just set your lap distance to 1 mile (the default), then enable auto-lap. The watch will beep at the end of every mile and you would know to switch to a run/walk.
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No, just get it interfaced to your laptop, start your software (Streets & Trips and DeLorme Topo North America both work for me) and it will find you. Even inside the house it found my location. This is much better than the GPS functionality in your cell phone. Well worth the price.
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It is my understanding that this can be done. I believe that you can only track other units which you have made a direct connection with.
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I haven't tried it through TomTom's activity site, as I find it a PITA to keep having to reset my watch to use. However, I upload automatically to Strava and there is an option to show off to fb on that site. And every other log-your-activity-to-seem-epic-to-your-fb-friends.
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The tracker refreshes at intervals...I think every 3 minutes. So, not 'real time' but pretty close.
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I have bought two also. Mine last month and then one for my husband a couple of weeks later. Mine is totally defective. I have replaced batteries and did the updates. It dies every day and doesn't track me. So disappointing!
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From what I know about the app is that you need to Carry your phone with you when you run. With the watch you upload the data to Nike running. You can probably manually enter the data into your run keeper if you like that for tracking. But the bike website has a route map and such. I personally use the running2win app to track my mileage so it doesn't matter what type of gps watch I use when I run.
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Use mine all the time while running. You will know it is there and running is better without it... but then you aren't recording, so....