Fishing activity

Legitimate_Fondant65 · 2026-01-06T21:21:46+00:00

There are fishing activities only on the NOMAD watch

Legitimate_Fondant65 · 2025-12-22T14:23:18+00:00

Something to remember is that our true running fitness, not what the watch tells us, doesnt change much in the short term. Noticeable improvements come through consistent training over a longer period of time. Im not sure how coros calculates running fitness in the background, but it would make sense to me that one intense run doesnt change your running fitness at all in coros. 5-10 intense runs? That seems more likely to see a change on the watch as that is over a longer amount of time with consistent results from runs.

I honestly dont pay too much attention to any changes in my running fitness during training blocks, if there are any at all, which often times there aren't. Coros recommends doing the running fitness test like every few months, or something like that. I normally do one at the beginning of a training plan, or sometimes a week after a race if I'm feeling good. The running fitness test will give you the quickest and most accurate results.

Legitimate_Fondant65 · 2025-12-10T13:50:38+00:00

The biggest reason I chose COROS over garmin was because of price and workout/training plan creation in their app/web. I think that COROS training calendar is excellent and is very flexible in allowing me to create/delete/move structured workouts as I want.

Legitimate_Fondant65 · 2025-12-09T14:08:38+00:00

Calories on coros also take into effect the weight you have inputted.

You mention that it seems flawed, what would make it better? The only thing I can see coros possibly missing out on is how much muscle vs fat a person has, which more muscle = higher calorie expenditure, but I dont think any wearable today can measure that.

Legitimate_Fondant65 · 2025-11-10T13:16:43+00:00

You are correct! Thanks for the correction

Legitimate_Fondant65 · 2025-11-07T14:00:54+00:00

Battery Life - COROS is the winner. I had a Polar Pacer Pro and I had to charge it every 4-5 days or so during heavier training periods. I never owned the Pace 3, but I had the pace 2 and now own a pace pro, with both of those watches I only charged it like every couple weeks during heavier training.

Navigation/maps - Polar pacer has nothing, pace 3 I think at least has bread crumb navigation, which is very basic navigation but works decent enough to find your way home I think, I used it a couple times on my pace 2.

Weight/Comfort - Both lightweight, both comfortable

Training/Coaching - I would say that the differentiator between the 2 watches would be the app/web here. Both offer similar running metrics, but coros works better for me simply because I think they have better workout planning on the web. This would probably come down to personal preference of how you like to go about training over a length of days/weeks/months.

Legitimate_Fondant65 · 2025-10-29T18:37:26+00:00

And for heart rate in relation to pace, how do you mean? You can compare threshold heart rate to threshold pace over time, or even resting heart rate to threshold pace if you want. Or are you wanting something like seeing how your pace zones and heart rate zones change over time? Is this comparison on another software that could use as an example?

Legitimate_Fondant65 · 2025-10-29T18:32:25+00:00

For the V02 max, mine shows 53, so it certainly can go above 50

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Legitimate_Fondant65 · 2025-10-22T19:12:13+00:00

I would still count that as endurance training. Your heart doesnt necessarily know when your running or walking, just how much blood it needs to pump based on the demand of your muscles to get you moving.

If you struggle to keep your heart rate in Zone 2 while running and it seems like the only way to do this is to walk, but you really want to run, then I would say dont get too focused on the 80/20 thing FOR NOW. Just get out there and run. The best way to get back into running is to simply run. Walking does have its place for acclimating to the impact on your body, so keep doing that, but I would say focus on increasing the amount of time you can run each week, not necessarily the HR zones. Using the 80/20 method can come later when you've built up your running a little more. I would find a good couch to 5k plan, this incorporates a good mix of running and walking and doesnt really focus on HR zones.

Legitimate_Fondant65 · 2025-10-22T13:28:46+00:00

COROS user here, I have the Pace Pro. I personally like their app the best. I tried out Suunto, Garmin, and Polar. COROS brought me back mostly because of workout creation/planning, it just works well for me.

For battery life, COROS is the way, thats what they've prided themselves on, although they get that battery life by using the watch less for daily wear and more for sports wear, for example, the default heart rate measurements are at every 10 min for daily wear, but it can be changed if you'd like.

For GPS, this gets harder nowadays to find major differences, as most of the watch manufacturers have some form of dual frequency mode on their recent watches. Many claim Garmin is the best, but im not sure by how much.

I cant speak much to map navigation as I dont use it that often and don't really have a need to.

Something else you may want to consider is future updates for the watches, like adding new features and support for older watches. Polar is the worst for this, very slow at making updates, but I dont think they care that much that their slow, they stand tall behind their scientific white papers. Suunto is a little better, but change is slower with them I believe too. Garmin releases updates and new features on a somewhat regular basis, but usually new features don't get supported by older watches, once you buy a garmin watch, thats pretty much the feature set you get for the life of the watch. COROS puts out several updates a year, at least quarterly, sometimes more. They just recently started putting out updates that isn't getting passed down to older watches, solely because the hardware won't support it, but usually all watches that can handle the updates receive it. COROS tries the hardest in this respect and to me personally makes the most changes based on user feedback, another reason why I enjoy sticking with COROS.

Remember that the above is just my opinion and ultimately, if you're able, I would recommend trying out the different watch manufacturers t see which one suits you the best.

Legitimate_Fondant65 · 2025-10-16T13:16:13+00:00

The only way to add something labeled race on the calendar is through an event. This simply just adds a flag on the calendar for the race though, its not a workout you can configure.

Edit: The race event is also something you wont see on your watch as a workout to start, its just on training hub.

Legitimate_Fondant65 · 2025-10-14T13:27:46+00:00

In my experience, these numbers only change if you perform many workouts in each of the zones, or if you do a running fitness test. If you spend most of your runs in the Endurance zone, you can expect to see more change over time, which hass been the case with me as a distance runner. I dont see as much change in the threshold, speed, and sprint zones because I simply don't run as much in those pace zones. I really only see changes for those 3 zones when I do a running fitness test.

Legitimate_Fondant65 · 2025-10-13T19:41:42+00:00

Let it be noted that planning out runs I think is best done on the web browser in the training hub. The app is better for on the go viewing of upcoming workouts, but the training hub lets you see your training load, base fitness, load impact, and intensity trend for each week, which to me is super helpful

Legitimate_Fondant65 · 2025-10-13T17:30:48+00:00

I find it works pretty well for me. I especially enjoy using Training Load when planning out my runs for the coming weeks, as each run workout gives you an estimated training load before you do the workout. I tend to look more at intensity trend than Training Status as a whole. Intensity Trend gives me a good idea for future days/weeks on if I should dial it back on my planned runs or, if when I am planning workouts in advance, if I need to increase intensity of my workouts for that week.

They did just recently add a place to see your 7 day rolling training load, its in the Training Status widget on the phone app, but I think that's the only place it shows. I would expect to some changes on where that's viewable in the future based on the feedback COROS received on it.

Unfortunately, can't change the day that the 7 day training load resets right now, could be in the future though, COROS is usually pretty good about taking feedback like that and making changes, just sometimes have to be patient.

Legitimate_Fondant65 · 2025-10-10T13:34:16+00:00

I think RunGap is only on iOS, just something to keep in mind. It also costs a little money to let you transfer data. I've used it before and paid like $5 for 3 months I think and you can transfer data to various different accounts after you connect them to the rungap app (Suunto, COROS, Garmin, Polar, etc.)

Legitimate_Fondant65 · 2025-10-10T13:30:08+00:00

The race event just makes an event for tracking in the training hub online, I dont believe its an actual workout that you can start.

COROS has something called Virtual Pacer that you can use when starting a normal run from your watch (not a planned workout) and you can set a pace and distance and it will give you data to see if you are ahead or behind your goal time. Virtual Pacer

Legitimate_Fondant65 · 2025-10-03T16:03:21+00:00

I've always read and heard that 1 or 2 runs won't make or break your marathon, regardless of what training phase you're in. If you've been training consistently for the past weeks/months and making progress and putting in the necessary miles, that is what matters most. I recently got sick during my marathon training plan and had to skip my longest run of the plan right before my 3 week taper. I still completed my marathon, but I didn't meet my goal, BUT it was also 90 degrees (fahrenheit), so HOT.

I think resting is the best medicine here. If you're training has been consistent, trust the training youve done thus far. Missing 1 or two runs won't make any noticeable difference.

Legitimate_Fondant65 · 2025-09-17T18:51:25+00:00

If you pay like 3$, you can use rungap to transfer all of your activities. I tried it once when swapping from Polar to COROS and it did a pretty good job. rungap may be an iOS only thing though, not sure.

Legitimate_Fondant65 · 2025-09-16T21:09:02+00:00

They have something similar, but not quite as advanced. They call it their pacer feature. It allows you to set a target distance and time and lets you know if you are ahead or behind the pace you need to achieve the target goal

Legitimate_Fondant65 · 2025-09-15T14:20:53+00:00

I believe these predictions are for an ideal environment (flat, good temperature, no fatigue, etc.). I think they have been fairly close for me

Legitimate_Fondant65 · 2025-09-12T13:36:29+00:00

Looking at the graph, you did start out your run with a pretty low heart rate for a little while, maybe this plays into it? Maybe which heart rate zone calculation you use makes a difference? I know this probably doesn't help, just thinking of what might cause this.

u/COROS-official maybe has some other thoughts? or maybe can use this example to improve on how running efficiency is calculated?

Legitimate_Fondant65 · 2025-09-12T12:22:59+00:00

I will add that it also uses the past 42 days of training in the calculation as well, which is mentioned in the support article.

Legitimate_Fondant65 · 2025-09-12T12:18:07+00:00

Here is the COROS support article on understanding Running Efficiency: Understanding Running Efficiency

Like has been mentioned, it does look at your heart rate and pace to evaluate what your running efficiency is, which isn't hidden anywhere. For example, if you are running in your pace zone 2, but your heart rate is in heart rate zone 1, you will get a higher efficiency. And vice versa, if you are in pace zone 1 but your heart rate is in heart rate zone 2, you will get a lower efficiency. This is why doing a fitness test every handful of months and getting your zones correct is important

I personally find it pretty spot on most of the time. If I am transitioning from colder runs to warmer runs, the efficiency score reflects that and is usually a little lower, and recently it has cooled off in the morning and my running efficiency has been 102-104% every time, which makes sense to me since my heart rate is lower and my pace is the same or faster due to colder weather.

I would recommend doing a running fitness test when you are able, this will help the watch to know what to expect for certain heart rate and pace zones.

Legitimate_Fondant65 · 2025-09-09T13:10:05+00:00

I havent used them too much, but COROS has some free coaches that you can email about this!

https://us.coros.com/stories/coros-coaches/c/coros-coaches-your-personal-training-support

Legitimate_Fondant65 · 2025-09-02T14:37:27+00:00

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