long time garmin fan here
loved the forerunner 205. Then years later bought an already old 310xt and loved it even more. Then got a 230 and it was perfect
Never I felt like complaining about the pace
I got a Fenix 6 and returned within a week because the pace was unusable. Based on reviews, the 955 was supposed to be amazing but:
- the rounding to 5 seconds in instantaneous pace is ridiculous (don't tell me to use avg pace please, it's like in the car you use average speed to decide if you are going too fast or not)
----- yes, GPS has tolerances etc etc. But I would like to see not rounding because if I accelerate a bit I would like to see a change. It's not even about absolute precision (is that the actual real pace?), it is about the watch showing a change if I slightly pick up the pace (and yes, also precision matters)
- the pace seems to have been filtered more in the recent releases - is it just the 14.15 or the combination of 14.15 and GPS FW 2.42, which only the folks in the beta have?
basically...we bought a premium running watch for several reasons. If I had known the would have filtered the pace (because that is the direction garmin wants to adopt to satisfy what they think most users want?), after returning Fenix 6 I would have looked somewhere else. If it was tested by actual runners, Fenix 6 for example should have never been sold. It is a magnificent watch that doesn't do the basic thing of allowing you to run intervals, not even those from their own garmin coach workouts (if you reply here to this saying your Fenix 6 works perfectly for you, and it probably does, but most likely you don't do intervals)
And now it seems they did this to the 955.
We have watches that perform great at some point and then they change basic things that should have been working (since 2008 when I started buying garmin).
Basically, I lost confidence in them
what should I buy next? Anybody out there that has both a newer, disappointing garmin and something else that works great for intervals training?
I will most likely go back to my 230, but I liked the bells and whistles of the newer watches. I am simply not looking to give up the basic training functionalities to have the cute body battery indicator
(yes this is a rant - sorry)
