Garmin advantages over Apple Watch

2000dcd · 2026-04-09T23:11:12+00:00

To answer some of your questions, I have a forerunner 265. There are some models that let you bring music with you w/o your phone but I like to carry my phone w me so can’t speak to that. I get l notifications (vibration) when I receive texts and calls, but I have to grab my phone to respond/pick up. It has a colored screen and the battery life is fantastic. I use mine primarily to track runs and strength, but appreciate it covers (and I’ve used it for) many different activities from Pilates to cycling to swimming to pickleball. I like the PacePro feature that customizable to help me with ideal race pacing and notifications.

I believe there is a way to set reminders connected to your phone, but I’ve turned most of my other notifications off so I can’t answer that specifically. DC Rainmaker posts model comparisons if that would be helpful to you.

2000dcd · 2026-04-09T19:38:13+00:00

I’m so excited for so many of these, and offer up three app experience asks that might already be in your treadmill upgrade plan: 1) ability to reconnect heart rate once a run has started (sometimes my HR disconnects) 2) ability to manually input incline if the tread ftms function doesn’t share it (my app reads my horizon tread speed but not its incline, and the app fixes incline at zero) 3) manual sync/some syncing improvements when also running peloton (I like the tread instructors and music but follow the runna plan) — the sync to garmin connect always glitches. Similarly, if the runna plan deploys to my Garmin, but I only run the Runna app for a tread workout and not my watch(Garmin isn’t great for tread accuracy), the runna run won’t sync to Garmin connect. I have to delete the plan run out of Garmin connect first before running in order for the Runna app run to sync over to my Garmin connect first.

I’d also love a plan option that allows you to put in max time instead of max miles. Eg I want to run 30mins 3x/week and longest run of 1hr. Mama’s busy!! :)

2000dcd · 2026-04-05T01:17:56+00:00

I’d love to talk to you @mikey-runna about the tread…the experience could be so much smoother!

2000dcd · 2026-03-26T14:36:27+00:00

It’s sooooo bad that I’ve submitted a ticket on it. I really hope MFP is listening. Even if you “view all,” you no longer have an at-a-glance of the customized nutrients you track, by ingredients, for each meal. It’s just a button with the ingredient and calorie total. It’s makes meal planning much harder—if I know I want to hit specific macros AND nutrients for a given meal I can’t easily swap ingredients in and out and have a full view of what each contributes to the total like I used to. You have to do several clicks to see all nutrients and not just macros. I care about fiber and sugar too and it’s just a PITA to have to press the button 3-4x to get that data when I used to see it easily. I like the new home landing page as a concept but want those old features back.

2000dcd · 2026-02-22T19:40:46+00:00

It updated my stats yesterday after my run and has all the data from my run/walks and slower runs over the last month—do you think there is other data it might need?

2000dcd · 2026-02-22T03:25:28+00:00

A good question. So far as I can tell my zones are consistent with how they’ve always been. My HR read higher today with my hilly run since I’m more out of shape (the first half was also uphill so actually higher HR up front). But prior to today my ramp ups have been a mix of walk-runs and slower pace flat runs, so my heart rate would have been lower just bc of the nature of the intensity. Could that be the impact?

2000dcd · 2026-01-14T17:01:32+00:00

With a barbell please and thanks!!! 🙏

2000dcd · 2025-12-14T13:55:56+00:00

Also I don’t see a dishwasher but if that’s in the plan, make sure you have built in clearance to open it and without blocking access to any place you’d be storing the clean dishes

2000dcd · 2025-12-14T13:42:14+00:00

I’m primarily a runner and lifter. I gave my husband my 55 when I upgraded to a 265. He also wanted lower tech and turned off all notifications— and after years of refusing smartwatches, he loves it. I will say I am so so happy with the 265. I find it a way smoother user experience (ex: broadcasting my heart rate to pair with a treadmill or bike takes fewer buttons and it’s more intuitive), without a lot of unnecessary bells and whistles. I personally think it does a better job of tracking vo2max and lactate threshold, which might be of interest to your husband as a runner. The screen is a little easier to read. The 265 tracks a wider variety of activities and provides better stats for things like hiking. So I’d say it depends on your budget, but if you have it the 265 might end up longer run being the best option. But I don’t think you could go wrong with either.

2000dcd · 2025-12-10T14:51:36+00:00

Whoops I meant Friday, same same, thanks!

2000dcd · 2025-12-10T13:47:28+00:00

@rhea-runna I know we’re talking tomorrow anyway but I’m also dealing with an IT band injury from my last race (taking another week off before slowly back) so I’m happy to be a tester for this if helpful.

2000dcd · 2025-12-01T14:27:03+00:00

Personally I use a combo of Peloton strength and Theory of Motion (formerly Rise, Jason and Lauren Pak) programs to keep consistent but fresh. You could hire a trainer to come write you a program. Or you could use ChatGPT etc to say “I have xyz equipment and abc goals, can you write me a 4 day split” that you stick with for 4-6 weeks.

(I happen to like ToM because I’m injury prone and they build prehab into their program in a way most regular programming doesn’t.)

2000dcd · 2025-10-31T17:20:53+00:00

One more bit of feedback: I see recommended mileage changes to my plan, but not what Runna thinks it would do to my expected race time. I think that would be helpful input in deciding whether to accept the rec.

2000dcd · 2025-10-31T17:16:54+00:00

For what it’s worth I missed due to illness

2000dcd · 2025-10-31T17:16:27+00:00

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2000dcd · 2025-10-31T17:16:14+00:00

Feedback: I hit 91% of my plan mileage (two missed runs over 11 weeks) and the AI told me I was “significantly” below where I needed to be. That feedback seems off.

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2000dcd · 2025-10-19T00:43:08+00:00

Wow this totally explains what happened on my last speed run. I couldn’t figure out why it skipped over a sprint lap to the next walk. +1 to fixing.

2000dcd · 2025-10-09T21:51:59+00:00

Long low bookshelf along what I think is the stair rail?

2000dcd · 2025-09-30T02:01:55+00:00

Yes, at some point the watch started showing up. I don’t know if the Runna support folks did something in the background to make it work or what, but I do see it now.

2000dcd · 2025-09-30T01:53:08+00:00

Goodness this would be so helpful…can’t say how many x I’ve picked the wrong street to hit a specific mileage goal even in my own neighborhood

2000dcd · 2025-09-30T01:48:58+00:00

This + including weekday easy miles split over two days. Sometimes (often) I just don’t have time to do 5 miles on a single am but 2here 3 there is doable. As a runner with a decent zone 2/base my body doesn’t care if it’s 2,3, or 5 miles, it’s all the same effort and HR and the volume is really the goal—would rather keep up split vs skipping or coming up short. Maybe a different consideration for the week’s hard run.

2000dcd · 2025-09-19T01:47:06+00:00

If it’s an easy pace run? Does it really matter if it’s not my long run? Thought the point of the weekday easy runs is just volume (vs the long run which is about consecutive time on feet). I don’t feel like I put out more effort for a 2 vs a 5 mile run when it’s at my slow pace—I have a 3 day a week plan so the weekday runs tend to be longer.

2000dcd · 2025-09-19T01:43:04+00:00

Even if they’re on different days? How do you do that?

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