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I wrote a post on here a few months ago about how I had bought a Garmin watch and couldn't believe how awkward it was to learn/ use/ setup. Sure, after a few weeks I had a better idea of what button to press and when, but I had a lot of trouble with weird GPS tracking issues and, well, I just didn't like it or enjoy using it so sold it on.
So last week a Polar M430 watch arrived. My goodness compared to the Garmin it is FABULOUS. Highly intuitive and easy to set up. I can't say enough good things about it. AND it looks cool, like some retro Blakes 7 device.
Just my two pennies worth. I can't believe for such a big company Garmin have such an awful user interface and annoying multi-app setup.
The Polar website is better than Garmin's Connect but sadly, Polar's bike computers aren't as good as Garmin's.
I went the other way, a Polar 400 to a Garmin Forerunner 245. I wanted my Garmin Edge cycling data in the same place as my running data hence the switch. However, it doesn't look like Garmin aggregate the data from multiple devices to calculate recovery etc so it might have been a bit pointless...
The only thing I prefer on the M400 is the ability to take a manual lap from the start rather than from the last auto lap. If you're on an out and back, you might want to take a lap at the turn point. With Polar, that's easy. With Garmin, not. Otherwise, once you learn the workings, they're much of a muchness.
Yep, I'm a Polar fan, Vantage watch and 650 bike computer. Love the watch, bike computer is a bit basic, but does everything I need - does struggle to follow GPS routes sometimes, which is a tad irritating.
@boblo Garmin have a recovery feature which syncs but depends on your devices...bizarrely called Physio TrueUp
https://support.garmin.com/en-GB/?faq=EjPECQK58qA0xzJ5X74vm7
@loneonic Yeah, thanks. I've seen that. Assuming that is functional cross devices, you'd expect recovery stats to be the same on each device in use as they're synchronised? They're not and never are which suggests (to me at least) the devices aren't synching even though the true up feature is enabled.
Does that make sense?
Indeed it does. I'm my case ignorance is (was) bliss.