will this watch compute speed and distance for bicycling?
1820335
Couldn't tell you. The battery was so bad I could not get the watch to function at all. Returned it for a Garmin watch.
1820336
The watch keeps track of time and distance. I just do the math for speed. I never looked for a speed reading.
1820337
I have never used it for bicycling, only running, but it should be able to compute speed and distance travelled regardless of whether you are running or on a bike.
2281704
this watch is not appropriate for triathlon training; you won't get accurate distance in water since the fr220 isn't designed to handle the dropouts when the wrist goes under the water during strokes. also, there is no bike functionality. if you're doing multisport look at the fr610 or fr910xt. check out dcrainmaker.com for a bunch of in-depth reviews.
1757084
Yes you can use it while walking if you wish to know the distance you walked, you would just need to set the watch to running mode
1550618
Yes, as far as I know, you need some sort of Garmin watch to be able to connect and track your runs.
1671308
Not sure if I understand your question. You can set the auto lap interval to any distance you want. So for cycling you can make it for two or three miles. Just a word of warning, there is no cycling function on this watch yet. I assume They will add it during an update, but it is strictly running now.
1757085
Dear Jamell: If you are just interested in walking you might want to buy the one less professional GPS watch. This one does run/bicycle/swim settings. You can, however, definitely use it for walking. It shows your pace, your distance, the duration, your heart rate, your average speed. I really like it!
2104791
Yes it includes speed, cadence and heart rate. Also calories burned but I question it's accuracy because its calorie number is alor less than the numbers I get with Polar and Sigma monitors.
1912148
Yes, When you download your run data to your computer you will get a GPS map and the path you ran super imposed on in. At the bottom is a graph that will track pace, altitude, speed, and distance. It is my first GPS watch but I have been very pleased. No complaints.
42939
Not sure. But I can tell you I would DEFINiTELY NOT recommend this watch to ANYONE. This is my third Garmin, and the other two worked fine - this model has some major defects that I don't think Garmin wants to acknowledge. I"m looking at Polar or Nike or anything else but Garmin for my next GPS.
681071
Outside your Forerunner will use the GPS and give you actual speeds and distances. Inside if you're on a treadmill or if you are on an inside track and your watch can't get a GPS signal, the foot pod will estimate your distance and speed pretty accurately. I'm not sure exactly how the algorithm that it uses calculates it but it uses cadence information that it gets from the accelerometer of the foot pod and your stride length to do the estimates. I think that I read that the more that you run/walk using the GPS and foot pod, the more accurate it gets.
2279405
The TomTom Multi-Sport Cardio can still take signals from a external chest strap which will come in very usefully for cycling as the watch is mounted on the bike instead of its been wore on the wrist. Hope this helps.
1748569
I am not a runner, but a cyclist with a Garmin Edge 305. As a cyclist, or I believe anyone interested in fitness, the key metrics are not speed and distance. Rather, I'd suggest that time and intensity are far more critical. You may not be interested in "training" but even if you are just interested in general fitness, heart rate is a far better measure of how you're doing. Intensity can be most easily measured by either heart rate or by power output - but I don't know how you'd get power on a run, so that leaves heart rate. Ok - now that I've said that I will never ride without heart rate (even though I can display 8 metrics on my Garmin Edge, the only things I have showing are heartrate, cadence (pedal strokes per minute) and clock (time of day, not time in workout). I'm also going to buy one of these for my wife. She is a very casual runner and I'm guessing she'll never really use the heart rate monitor. She is more interested in making sure she gets an hour in every day, and if she happened to improve her times, then she'll be happy. She'll never track her performance outside of the very simplest of measurements. So I'll spend the money anyway, but she'll never use the extra function. If nothing else, I'll have an extra heart rate strap for myself... Hope this helps, it's just one person's personal opinion.
998113
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.
1838562
Hi. The watch tracks your distance and strokes. You program your weight into the watch in setup, and the owners manual says that it uses this information to calculate calories burned based on distance and body weight.
1395584
You will have every fonctions as cardio tracking but the speed and position will not work, but the watch will register many data and when you will have internet acces will load it.
960057
That will be the least of your problems.The design is poor. It's difficult and sometimes impossible to connect to the website.I suggest getting a Groman GPS watch, a much better investment.
1528936
No, you need a garmin running watch for this to work. This is not a pedometer.