[Closed] Strava Watches - any experience?

A friend has a garmin one, seems to do the job with the bare minimum of faffing. I think it has to be one or two up from the basic model in order to play nicley with other add ons like pedometers and HR straps.

Alternatively, a smartphone running strava and bluetooth HR strap is even less faff.

Alternatively, a smartphone running strava and bluetooth HR strap is even less faff.

Yeah, she has that but even a 4s is surprisingly bulky in a pocket in running gear. Works fine for me on the bike but running it does annoy me a bit too, as do the armbands. Of course the answer is to M(W)TFU really 🙂

There is a side issue of her actually asking for a work a day watch too, so it'd cover a few bases.

I bought my ex a garmin one and it was excellent, I used to use it on long distance road marches too and battery life was great.

For fuss free Strava, I now just have to leave my Garmin watch switched on sitting near the laptop (which has a dongle plugged in) and my workouts appear on Strava. Can't get much simpler than that.

Garmin Forerunner 10 is simple, small and cheap, works fine for running. It has enough memory for a few weeks of runs. You do have to plug it in to a PC to upload, but that's easy enough.

Or the Forerunner 15 if you want heart rate, and a bit longer battery life.

I bought a Garmin Forerunner 220 for the Strave / Smartphone integration thing and it took almost a year after the product to get to market for Strava and Garmin to work together.

I have an iPhone and Forerunner 220. After a workout I sync the Forerunner with the iPhone via Bluetooth (AFAIK it didn't work with Android when I was looking into it as Bluetooth Lite standards are all over the place) with Garmin Connect on my phone. The workout then appears on Strava. No need for cables // dongles or anything.

I do believe there is a gap int he market for a watch that can remember your segments / local segments and save them on the device to give you almost real time segment updates.

I use a forerunner 10, it was cheap and works great. I have a garmin programme on my computer, which auto uploads from my gps to garmin connect, which in turn updates strava, which in turn updates my fitness plan, dead easy.

For fuss free Strava, I now just have to leave my Garmin watch switched on sitting near the laptop (which has a dongle plugged in) and my workouts appear on Strava. Can't get much simpler than that.

Which garmin is that, aracer?

Thanks for the replies, garmin looking like top bet then. So you can link Garmin Connect and Strava accounts? Didn't know that, that sounds like it'll do the biz.

Yep, Garmin Connect can automatically sync with Strava now...

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So any Garmin running watch will do the trick. I use a 610. Just get home, place it near the laptop, it auto syncs wirelessly to Garmin Connect and Garmin Connect then syncs it to Strava.

910XT, but I didn't mention the model because as discussed it's standard stuff (and that's likely to be more expensive than you want).

Still haven't sorted syncing via the phone - there are apps, but not free ones and I'm too cheap (it uses Ant+ rather than BT, so only a few phones will do it and its not quite standard stuff).

Have a read of the reviews on DCRainmakers blog.

Very happy with my Forerunner 220. Not using Strava any more due to people stalking me on it but it syncs with no problem. With Bluetooth you don't need to go near a computer any more.

Keep an eye on Amazon, I got mine for £150~