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Asics Mexico Mid and Garmin Forerunner 620 and 220 GPS Watch
Next to running shoes, running tech gadgets are probably my biggest weakness, and lately I’ve found myself drooling over some of the running tech that is coming down the pipe.
I’ve tried a few products that were “almost there” in Asics Mexico Mid terms of being ground-breaking fitness devices – the is a good example. It was a touch-screen fitness watch and GPS tracker that was the closest thing I have seen to a smartphone fit into a watch-sized package. Unfortunately it suffered from some fatal flaws that made it come up well short of its revolutionary potential (lack of waterproofing of the headphone jack and poor battery life being a huge ones! – as far as I’m aware the MotoACTV has been discontinued).
Just this weekend I got an email from Garmin announcing the . I watched the following video and have to say that I’m intrigued.
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At first I though these might just be prettier, sleeker, color touch-screen screen versions of the (my current everyday GPS watch), but in watching the video they seem to be something a bit more than that. In particular, the ability of the FR620 to measure/estimate certain aspects of running physiology and parameters of the running gait jumped out at me.
I followed up with the Garmin rep and he indicated that they would be willing to loan me a sample to try out and return, so hopefully I’ll have my hands one a 620 soon to play around with some of these features and report back. If it lives up to expectations, I may be upgrading from my 610 in the not too distant future!
In the meantime, below is a summary of the features of the two watches, with some additional thoughts.
First, new features in the Garmin Forerunner 620 and 220 as compared to the 610:
1. Thinner and lighter than the 610. I wear the 610 as my all-day watch, and I like that GPS watches continue to get smaller.
2. Color screen. Self explanatory.
3. Built in accelerometer. The watch itself contains an accelerometer that can estimate speed and distance (the Motorola MotoACTV had this feature). My presumption is that this operates by counting steps in a manner similar to the or other wrist-mounted step counters. This could be handy on a treadmill, Asics Suroingu Japan Ar but probably won’t work if you are pushing a jogging stroller (i.e., when your hands are stationary - the MotoACTV did not count steps when I was pushing my son in his stroller), and accuracy will not be nearly as good as the GPS. But, this feature saves the trouble of having to have a separate foot pod.
4. Bluetooth Enabled. Allows direct upload of workouts through the on a paired smartphone. Also allows for real time tracking of a runner via if they are carrying their paired phone with them while they are running. This seems like a pretty cool safety feature. Could also be handy for those crewing runners in an Ultra, though battery life may limit it’s utility in this application.
5. Battery life estimated at 6 weeks in watch-mode, 10 hours with GPS enabled (should be good for distance up to 50K).
6. MSRP for the 620 is $399 without the accelerometer outfitted HRM-Run monitor (see below), $459 with. So $50 more expensive than the FR610 currently sells for in those two packages. The 220 is $249 for the watch, $299 with the standard HRM, so $100 cheaper than the FR610.
The Forerunner 620 has a number of additional features not found on the 220:
1. Enhanced Touchscreen. The 620 has a touchscreen that Garmin claims can be operated even when wearing running gloves, so sounds like it will be more responsive than the woefully difficult to operate touchscreen on the 610. The 220 is operated via buttons (not a touchscreen).
2. Wifi Upload. The 620 can be synced with Wifi networks to upload workouts to Garmin Connect (thus no need for a USB dongle for wireless uploads like with the 610?). Apparently with each sync the next 7 days of satellite data are loaded to the watch to speed up GPS satellite signal acquisition time.
2. VO2max Calculation. I’m curious about this feature. Garmin claims that they can estimate VO2max using data on speed, heart rate, and heart rate variability. They are using calculations produced by a company called , who has published a number of papers on estimating physiological variables from heart rate data. I’m very interested to try this out given that I have had my VO2max calculated using the traditional laboratory based method (running on a treadmill with a mask on till I feel like I’m about to die). I can put the watch to the test and see just Asics Kanuchi how close it comes to my lab-based measure.
3. HRM-Run Heart Rate Monitor. The heart rate monitor that can be purchased with the FR620 has an accelerometer built-in, and can also measure heart rate variability. Garmin claims that it can determine how well you are recovered for your workouts by using the HRM-Run – I presume this is based again on algorithms from , most likely heart rate variability. I haven’t read any of the literature on HR variability as an indicator of training stress, but it seems to be gaining popularity.
4. Running Gait Measurements. The accelerometer in the FR620’s HRM-Run monitor can apparently calculate/estimate ground contact time and vertical oscillation (see readout on watch below). This is perhaps the thing I’m most excited to try out. I’m curious how accurate it is, but if it works reasonably well it could be a great tool for gait training.
I’m hoping to have a loaner in the next few weeks, and will try to get some initial thoughts posted as soon as I have it in hand.
For more information, visit the . I’m assuming they will be available in .
Update: DC Rainmaker posted a this morning, unfortunately he hasn’t seen the new HRM yet. He seems impressed by his initial experience with them, and Ray is the expert when it comes to GPS devices.
Below is the feature comparison chart for the two watches:
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Asics Mexico 66 Baja Tiger and Changes Coming to Runblogger
Things have been a bit quiet here on the blog for the past few weeks. Despite the seeming lack of activity, I’ve been hammering away in the background at a furious rate on a few projects that have been nagging me.
For the past week or so I’ve been working almost non-stop on an academic journal article on foot strike patterns from the 2011 New York City Barefoot Run – I didn’t think I’d be writing an academic paper so soon after leaving my professorship, but I was invited to submit to a special edition of a journal and finally got my act together and got it done. I submitted the initial draft yesterday - I won’t reveal the results yet, but it’s a pretty interesting dataset.
In addition to the research article, I also spent some time last week developing a website for a local nonprofit that I belong to (the ). It’s still a work in progress, but in a nutshell it required that I learn how to use Wordpress to a much greater extent than I have in the past so that I could recreate a site that was previously built on the Joomla Asics Mexico 66 Baja Tiger platform (which none of the current coalition members, including myself, knew how to use). I’ve been meaning to play with Wordpress for a long time, and this gave me the motivation to dig in. I’m building the site using the and the and so far have had a blast – although I’m far from a pro, tinkering with websites is something that I really enjoy doing.
In the process of building the CAWC site, I found that Wordpress offers functionality that is sorely missing in Blogger. I created Runblogger back in early 2009 on the Blogger platform, and have used it continuously since then. One of the benefits of using Blogger is that it has forced me to learn basic HTML and CSS coding in order to modify the site template to suit my needs. Blogger has served me well, but I’ve come to realize that if I want to grow the site, I need to make the jump to Wordpress.
In particular, the following needs have precipitated this move:
1. I need flexibility to create pages with different templates. Blogger allows you to create static pages (pages are different than posts and don’t show up in the blog feed), but you can’t alter page layouts without some cumbersome modification of the site template.
2. I wanted to be able to create sub-blogs for off-topic posts and gear deal announcements. I don’t want these to show up in my main site feed so that people can opt in or out of viewing/subscribing to them. Some people really appreciate getting notified of shoe sales, others consider it spam, so I wanted this to be isolated in its own spot. Similarly, I’d like to add more non-running content so having a more personal sub-blog is appealing (e.g., I’d like to post more often about the business/practice of blogging). I got this idea from .
3. I want to bring my under the Runblogger domain, can’t do this in Blogger.
4. The blogger post Asics Gel Nimbus 9 editor is awful, and I haven’t used it in a long time (I use Windows Live Writer). Working in Wordpress is much easier.
5. Wordpress plugins offer an incredible variety of functionality not available in Blogger.
6. I wanted to move my commenting system from Disqus to something else. I get a lot of complaints about Disqus eating comments before they are posted, and it seems to really slow down site load times. It’s time for a change.
7. Greater flexibility in mobile site design. I really want a usable site for smartphones that allows more functionality than the Blogger mobile options. The move should allow this.
There are more reasons, but these are the big ones. My biggest hesitation in moving the site was that I was afraid I might screw things up and lose my existing links if I tried to do it myself (since this blog is my main source of income now, I couldn’t risk losing my Google juice). Given this, I contracted with a web design firm to handle the job for me. is a company based in Slovakia, and they without a hitch. Foliovision began the migration process for me within 24 hours of paying my deposit and have been incredibly professional and efficient so far. I’m very impressed.
is rebuilding my site in Wordpress, and I’ve asked them to use + the since I used them to build the site mentioned above. This should allow me to modify the site as needed once Onistuka Tiger Monte Pokhara it is up and running. Apparently migrating Disqus comments is a bit of a pain, but they are going to handle that as well for an additional fee. I’m hoping that all will be settled within the next three weeks. Fingers crossed!
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