I'm liking the new firmware so far. The heart graph is much more active and my battery does not appear to be taking much of a hit as a result. I ran a road half-marathon about 3 weeks ago and I had a cadence lock for almost the entire race. I was NOT HAPPY about that. I'm running a trail half-marathon (13.5 miles and 2500 feet of elevation gain) this coming Sunday, so we'll see how well it does with interval paces and cadence lock. I will truly be putting this watch to the test on Sunday. And so it looks like I will give the OHRM one more chance to prove itself. Otherwise, I am permanently going to use the chest strap or nothing at all.
Also, another thing Garmin needs to work on is the VO2 max estimate to correct for elevation gain. I have been doing a lot of slower paced steep elevation miles lately as training for my trail race and it has knocked my V02 max down from 51 to 46. It makes me laugh at the ridiculousness of it... I mean, I'm running up incredibly steep hills that most people would be forced to walk up and I'm in better shape than ever before in my life and it's telling me my VO2 max has decreased. Garmin, please!
I updated this morning to Firmware 4.20 right after a short run. Now the watch shows 3 different entries for steps for today - one with the run, one with zero steps, and one with the day's total. The total in mobile app is correct. Anyone else seeing this or know how to fix it?
I would like to see user adjustable sampling as I'd like more data than is provided, but, this is a vast improvement. I would now recommend this watch. When doing press ups and such, the heart rate would drop to a level well below my RHR, that hasn't happened today. I keep waking up and the heart rate is stuck on a value requiring me to switch the HRM off and on, this didn't happen this morning. Looks like a lot of work has gone into this update, at last, but well done Garmin. :)
So, it looks like it needed a day or two to shake out my RHR; it now matches what it's supposed to be. For the first couple days, it was showing low, and when I first updated, it was showing REALLY low.
Guessing this was a result of it scrubbing my RHR history due to the new firmware?
Regardless, I was happy with this watch before, but now even more so. If they make the 245 less chintzy feeling, I'll upgrade without hesitation.
I was wearing it tighter than I have it during the day and sleeping, but it was in no way uncomfortable. So, I'm cautiously optimistic that they've solved the cadence lock problem, or at least ironed out the worst issues.
halfway it happened. after that i thightened the watch, and placed it higher on my wrist. don't know if it stayed on the wrong value if i hadn't made those changes.
in general i think it's still useless using it when changing pace, like intervals. i then always use the hrm-run-strap. will it ever improve so i can leave the strap @ home?
