Fenix 7s or fenix 6s sapphire?

I would recommend a 7s sapphire solar as it can use the "multi frequency" GPS. The standard 7s cannot. And it has double memory.

That's over my budget

Then go with the standard 7s

Not very encouraging.. How long ago was that? Maybe layer firmwares addressed the issue 

I gave up on it when the 7s came out. Have not used it since. I feel tempted to update it and see how it does compared to the 7s because of battery drain issue. Might be an interesting comparison in more aspects than one.

Ok so despite the problems you still stocked to garmin. Glad to hear the 7s works fine

BTW are the suggested workouts 100% focused on running? Polar suggests workouts but let you choose among running, core activity, etc (which is good as the workout also depends on the weather or the time) 

Well, lacking alternatives, really. Fitbit is pushing their premium service and had no suitable devices for me. Polar: battery time and size. Suunto maybe but I didn't know anyone with such a device. So it kind of had to be Garmin. Lack of better I guess ;) and yeah, until Garmin fixes the battery drain issue on my and many other watches it's rather useless.

So, ignore HR. I had an external sensor connected to the 6s (bottom) that I was carrying with me but that was not connected to the 7s (top). Doesn't look totally different, right? Lets look into more detail:

Why the 6s solar pro is shite:



A small 5k with intervals with both the 7s SS and 6s SP. The *** pace track is from the 6s.

And both separately. As you can see the 6s constantly drops pace at odd location, and then catches up again. it already starts poorly at the beginning where there are trees along the road (autumn, naked trees and I was running on the road not the sidewalk). Dropped pace a few more times and caught up again, and totally lost it at the end where I have to admit the GPS signal isn't very good.

thanks, that's quite clear...it's weird I couldn't find almost anything on this (on youtube)!