All in all, I have been fairly pleased with my 225. The times and distances do not match up to other devices, but for the sake of my sanity I am just going to pick one device and stick with the results. Anyway, there are two functions I wish the watch had that could likely be fixed with a simple software update. I post here with the hope that someone from Garmin reads this and also to see what other things you would like to see.
1) The ability to have the alarm vibrate only.
As my runs get earlier and earlier in the morning, I like using the vibrate alarm to keep from waking up my spouse. It would be nice if I could set it to vibrate only instead of the standard beep and vibrate. Surely that is just a coding issue that could be fixed with a simple patch.
2) The ability to force a sync with my phone.
Unless I am just missing it somewhere, the only way I have found to do this is to completely close the app and open it back up again. Even then it fails to sync some of the time. Every other device I have tried usually has a sync button or I can pull down the screen to refresh/sync. It makes me wonder why they left this capability out of the app.