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To guarantee a somewhat accurate/reliable HR reading for upcoming marathon...?

Former Member
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I had an issue at a half marathon 3 weeks ago where my watch picked up 3 people's HR readings during the beginning and ignored my external armband HR monitor (Scosche, the very best) which really screwed up some of my race. I lean heavily on HR data.

Anyways, I wanted to ask this here because I can't find concrete answers elsewhere. Do I need to ADD this particular HR monitor to my watch and the day of the marathon, it'll sync onto mine and stay that way? I did add it to my watch a week ago, gave it a name, and then the other day I used it but it connected as a generic factory name. So yeah, that didn't work great.

What to do to guarantee it sticks with mine and not anyone elses? (and no, relying on the OHR at this point is not a possibility. while it has improved for me it still glitches too much and locks onto cadence lock from time to time).
  • Was this not fixed/changed in 4.6? (sorry, maybe it was 4.5)
    I thought it was now a manual process?
  • I'd also like to know this for an upcoming race. The new functionality doesn't fix the issue for me as it still connects to anything. Basically you can now tell it to disconnect from something, and then it ignores it, but the issue is you can't stop it connecting to other monitors.

    One thing I've not worked out, is, is it possible to disconnect a device during an event / activity? It seems I have to stop the activity to access the menus, is this correct? I'd like to kick other peoples devices off when the connect during a race.

    Thanks
    Steve