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With today‘s morning run, I crossed over the 5,000 kilometers mark for 2026, and this was a run in perfect weather: 14-15 degrees at the start, ~20 degrees at the end, most parts of the run went through the woods (aka in the shade). And I had another excellent audiobook to keep me company. Yessssss! #running #apex4 #coros #aalen #sequoia
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With today‘s morning run, I crossed over the 5,000 kilometers mark for 2026, and this was a run in perfect weather: 14-15 degrees at the start, ~20 degrees at the end, most parts of the run went through the woods (aka in the shade). And I had another excellent audiobook to keep me company. Yessssss! #running #apex4 #coros #aalen #sequoia
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I got up at 5:30 am, but took too much time doing the dishes and stuff like that. So when I finally got out to run, it was quite hot already. Meh! But I — again — experimented with my route, mixing this year’s standard route with last year‘s. Turned out quite well. Two more days until I‘m at 5,000+ kilometers (for 2026), yay! #running #coros #apex4 #heat
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I got up at 5:30 am, but took too much time doing the dishes and stuff like that. So when I finally got out to run, it was quite hot already. Meh! But I — again — experimented with my route, mixing this year’s standard route with last year‘s. Turned out quite well. Two more days until I‘m at 5,000+ kilometers (for 2026), yay! #running #coros #apex4 #heat
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Early up and out, now I‘m tired again. But it was worth running in a perfect sub-20-degrees weather. I even caught some good glances of the #willibaldsburg in #eichstaett during the run — and took pictures! Today, we‘ll drop off two of our kids at some friends‘ house then head back to #aalen #running #coros #apex4
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Early up and out, now I‘m tired again. But it was worth running in a perfect sub-20-degrees weather. I even caught some good glances of the #willibaldsburg in #eichstaett during the run — and took pictures! Today, we‘ll drop off two of our kids at some friends‘ house then head back to #aalen #running #coros #apex4
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13 degrees Celsius in the morning! What a bliss to run in this weather! And I’m inching closer to that 5,000 kilometers milestone (funny: *inching* + *kilometers* + *milestone* in one sentence). I'm already in the car heading towards Eichstätt (Bavaria) for a guided tour of the city with the *whole* family. Have a great weekend! #running #coros #apex4
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13 degrees Celsius in the morning! What a bliss to run in this weather! And I’m inching closer to that 5,000 kilometers milestone (funny: *inching* + *kilometers* + *milestone* in one sentence). I'm already in the car heading towards Eichstätt (Bavaria) for a guided tour of the city with the *whole* family. Have a great weekend! #running #coros #apex4
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The early bird, well, the *earlier-than-before* bird (me) ventured out for a nice run. Again, I alternated within my usual 25K route (success), so I was able to take a pic of one of my favorite trees around here: a Sequoia. This usually brings back fond memories of California. And I was early enough to make use of the cool morning — what a bliss! Have a great day, y‘all! #running #coros #apex4
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The early bird, well, the *earlier-than-before* bird (me) ventured out for a nice run. Again, I alternated within my usual 25K route (success), so I was able to take a pic of one of my favorite trees around here: a Sequoia. This usually brings back fond memories of California. And I was early enough to make use of the cool morning — what a bliss! Have a great day, y‘all! #running #coros #apex4
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Yesterday‘s hip pain is almost gone, just a faint throbbing in the background. So it was the right decision to cut some distance yesterday. And I did the same today, so as not to fall back into that old pattern of more and ever more. I switched to a very old route, one I haven’t used in months. And it was fun. #Running #health #coros #apex4
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Yesterday‘s hip pain is almost gone, just a faint throbbing in the background. So it was the right decision to cut some distance yesterday. And I did the same today, so as not to fall back into that old pattern of more and ever more. I switched to a very old route, one I haven’t used in months. And it was fun. #Running #health #coros #apex4
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My hip decided to cause some pain and weakness, so I cut short my run and only did a half-marathon. That was enough. Now I‘ll let my hip rest for a bit.
I have been thinking on this for some time now: I‘ll drop the daily half-marathons for a daily run with a fixed time (instead of a distance). That will give me at least one more hour of sleep each night. And, once I‘ve broken the psychological circle of *having to run at least 21.1 K*, I‘ll be open for other distances. #Running #Coros #Apex4
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My hip decided to cause some pain and weakness, so I cut short my run and only did a half-marathon. That was enough. Now I‘ll let my hip rest for a bit.
I have been thinking on this for some time now: I‘ll drop the daily half-marathons for a daily run with a fixed time (instead of a distance). That will give me at least one more hour of sleep each night. And, once I‘ve broken the psychological circle of *having to run at least 21.1 K*, I‘ll be open for other distances. #Running #Coros #Apex4
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Call me SLEEP MASTER — even Apple Health awarded me with a score of 96/100 for my exquisite sleeping performance. 💪🏻 And then I ran, quite a windy weather today, resulting in considerably lower temperatures. Yay! The wind kept me going steadily, and it felt absolutely great! And I met some of the nicest neighbors (both were/are runners) on the way. Great Sunday! #Running #coros #apex4 #sleep
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Call me SLEEP MASTER — even Apple Health awarded me with a score of 96/100 for my exquisite sleeping performance. 💪🏻 And then I ran, quite a windy weather today, resulting in considerably lower temperatures. Yay! The wind kept me going steadily, and it felt absolutely great! And I met some of the nicest neighbors (both were/are runners) on the way. Great Sunday! #Running #coros #apex4 #sleep
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Das muss ich nachher mal testen! Livetracking wie bei Wahoo und Garmin? Bin gespannt! #Coros #CorosDura
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No. Power. Left.
This has been the last day of school for this summer. I was up at 2:20 am, warmed up, ran, showered, cycled to school at 6:35, loaded lots of equipment into a van, drove over to the concert hall for our closing ceremony, afterwards back with all the stuff to our school. There: closing ceremony for the staff – with music. Then: Home (cycling at 34 deg C). Sleep. Bliss. More sleep tonight! #running #apex4 #coros #school #sleep #music
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No. Power. Left.
This has been the last day of school for this summer. I was up at 2:20 am, warmed up, ran, showered, cycled to school at 6:35, loaded lots of equipment into a van, drove over to the concert hall for our closing ceremony, afterwards back with all the stuff to our school. There: closing ceremony for the staff – with music. Then: Home (cycling at 34 deg C). Sleep. Bliss. More sleep tonight! #running #apex4 #coros #school #sleep #music
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When I got up at around 7am after about eight hours of sleep, it was absolutely pouring down outside. So I did some of my work first, then warmed up and went outside. My timing was right, not a drop of rain on me during the run. And it was a good one, getting me to the end of THE WISE MAN‘S FEAR by Patrick Rothfuss… Now I‘ll have to decide on which audiobook to listen to next. And I landed on a cool number: 4,444 kms in 2026! Have a great Sunday, y‘all! #running #coros #apex4 #audiobooks #sleep
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When I got up at around 7am after about eight hours of sleep, it was absolutely pouring down outside. So I did some of my work first, then warmed up and went outside. My timing was right, not a drop of rain on me during the run. And it was a good one, getting me to the end of THE WISE MAN‘S FEAR by Patrick Rothfuss… Now I‘ll have to decide on which audiobook to listen to next. And I landed on a cool number: 4,444 kms in 2026! Have a great Sunday, y‘all! #running #coros #apex4 #audiobooks #sleep
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On Garmin and Coros
Reading Time: 4 minutesIt’s easy to fall into the trap of looking at expensive Garmin watches and thinking that maps are a premium feature, when, in fact they are not. Suunto and Coros offer them on affordable devices, should you require that feature for trail running, hiking, and more.
If you want to use the Coros Nomad for navigation while cycling then it’s bad. I tested it when cycling from Morges to Cossonay a few weeks ago. The problem is that it tells you “straight ahead” or turn left, but not in a cycling/driving context, so it’s unreliable for that.
For running the Garmin Forerunner 570 map is just a line so you see that there is a bend soon, and then you see if you turned in the right place, but without sufficient context. A right navigation is confirmed by you still being on the line, rather than via context.
Having said this, hiking towards Leukerbad, using the Forerunner 570 worked well. I was able to intuit the right direction from the GPS, even in deep valleys on steep slopes heading towards Leukerbad. I would trust it, if I was walking solo, rather than a hike organised by someone else.
If you’re running with a group, either Décathlon or other, if they provide the planned course ahead of time, we can download and follow the route on the Nomad with great ease. It shows you the streets, the buildings, roundabouts and more, so you know ahead of time where to turn. The nomad is larger than the Pace 3. The pace 3 is suited to everyday wear and the Nomad is better when you’re hiking and trail running, if you know the course ahead of time.
Sleeping, HRV and Battery
My reason for switching from the Instinct to the Instinct 2, was to get more data, and because I noticed that the battery was lasting a shorter amount of time. My reason for switching from the Instinct 2 to the Forerunner 570 was because I wanted better features, and to see if it tracked sleep better.
After several months of using the Forerunner 570, and Garmin in general I came to the conlusion that it is deeply pessimistic, from a few points of view. The first is that it’s bad at tracking sleep if you wake during the night, either for relief, or because of summer heat, or other reasons.
More than once during the Canicule (heat wave) the watch has said that I had an awful night of sleep, that my HRV is low and that my training readiness is low. In other words it was telling me to hibernate.
The problem with Garmin is that it wants sleep to be excellent for the battery status to be great, and it wants HRV to be within a certain range. If any of these are out of range, then it gives a gloomy preparedness status.
Heat Acclimation
I noticed that getting heat acclimation to one hundred percent was very easy, but that it also dropped very fast if you don’t keep working out. I think the feature is interesting but dangerous. It’s interesting to have such a metric because it’s another goal to aim for. It’s dangerous because we shouldn’t be encouraged to acclimate to heat during a heatwave.
It should also look at sleeping environment, having said that. I’m sleeping in an environment at 30°c and yet heat acclimation doesn’t take into account that my sleeping environment is much warmer than the outside air, especially when there is a refreshing breeze.
Coros Minimalism
I like Coros, first because it’s affordable, but also because it’s less bloated. Garmin has added so many bells and whistles that you tend to look at the app all the time, to see how you slept, how your body battery is doing, and more. With Coros you do a workout. It tells you “It will take 43 hours to recover, and that’s when the countdown to recovery begins, without looking at HRV and sleep.
We have seen that Coros, Garmin, Apple and more are designed for young people who sleep from 2200-0600 or so, in a single burst. As soon as you’re a bit older sleep is more broken up so Apple, Garmin, Suunto and Coros say “You slept like crap” but we just slept in two or three bursts, rather than one. With Garmin you’re penalised for poor sleep. With Coros sleep is not fitness, so you might not “sleep” well, but recovery is still recovery.
### Less Demanding
One of the nice things about Coros is that it is less demanding, and less distracting. It presents you with run or ride data, current fatigue and other info, without encouraging you to check the app all the time. It’s designed for you to do the workout, look at the data, and move on with your day. It is also far more forgiving of you not wearing the watch all day, every day, for years. You could wear it for sleep for HRV status, and workouts, and forget about it for the rest of the time.
Summary
Whilst Garmin is meant to be more advanced, and provide far more data, by being too detail oriented about what it wants almost always gives negative feedback about sleep, HRV, and more. In the end it becomes too negative to be usable. In contrast, Coros tracks an activity, gives some info, and then leaves you alone.
In the age of never-ending feedback it is nice to be left alone to enjoy running, cycling and more. The only niggle I noticed is that the heart rate, recently was 20bpm higher on Coros than on Garmin. In theory an HR band, or strap, solves this issue.
#coros #cycling #fitness #Garmin #maps #running #swimming -
On Garmin and Coros
Reading Time: 4 minutesIt’s easy to fall into the trap of looking at expensive Garmin watches and thinking that maps are a premium feature, when, in fact they are not. Suunto and Coros offer them on affordable devices, should you require that feature for trail running, hiking, and more.
If you want to use the Coros Nomad for navigation while cycling then it’s bad. I tested it when cycling from Morges to Cossonay a few weeks ago. The problem is that it tells you “straight ahead” or turn left, but not in a cycling/driving context, so it’s unreliable for that.
For running the Garmin Forerunner 570 map is just a line so you see that there is a bend soon, and then you see if you turned in the right place, but without sufficient context. A right navigation is confirmed by you still being on the line, rather than via context.
Having said this, hiking towards Leukerbad, using the Forerunner 570 worked well. I was able to intuit the right direction from the GPS, even in deep valleys on steep slopes heading towards Leukerbad. I would trust it, if I was walking solo, rather than a hike organised by someone else.
If you’re running with a group, either Décathlon or other, if they provide the planned course ahead of time, we can download and follow the route on the Nomad with great ease. It shows you the streets, the buildings, roundabouts and more, so you know ahead of time where to turn. The nomad is larger than the Pace 3. The pace 3 is suited to everyday wear and the Nomad is better when you’re hiking and trail running, if you know the course ahead of time.
Sleeping, HRV and Battery
My reason for switching from the Instinct to the Instinct 2, was to get more data, and because I noticed that the battery was lasting a shorter amount of time. My reason for switching from the Instinct 2 to the Forerunner 570 was because I wanted better features, and to see if it tracked sleep better.
After several months of using the Forerunner 570, and Garmin in general I came to the conlusion that it is deeply pessimistic, from a few points of view. The first is that it’s bad at tracking sleep if you wake during the night, either for relief, or because of summer heat, or other reasons.
More than once during the Canicule (heat wave) the watch has said that I had an awful night of sleep, that my HRV is low and that my training readiness is low. In other words it was telling me to hibernate.
The problem with Garmin is that it wants sleep to be excellent for the battery status to be great, and it wants HRV to be within a certain range. If any of these are out of range, then it gives a gloomy preparedness status.
Heat Acclimation
I noticed that getting heat acclimation to one hundred percent was very easy, but that it also dropped very fast if you don’t keep working out. I think the feature is interesting but dangerous. It’s interesting to have such a metric because it’s another goal to aim for. It’s dangerous because we shouldn’t be encouraged to acclimate to heat during a heatwave.
It should also look at sleeping environment, having said that. I’m sleeping in an environment at 30°c and yet heat acclimation doesn’t take into account that my sleeping environment is much warmer than the outside air, especially when there is a refreshing breeze.
Coros Minimalism
I like Coros, first because it’s affordable, but also because it’s less bloated. Garmin has added so many bells and whistles that you tend to look at the app all the time, to see how you slept, how your body battery is doing, and more. With Coros you do a workout. It tells you “It will take 43 hours to recover, and that’s when the countdown to recovery begins, without looking at HRV and sleep.
We have seen that Coros, Garmin, Apple and more are designed for young people who sleep from 2200-0600 or so, in a single burst. As soon as you’re a bit older sleep is more broken up so Apple, Garmin, Suunto and Coros say “You slept like crap” but we just slept in two or three bursts, rather than one. With Garmin you’re penalised for poor sleep. With Coros sleep is not fitness, so you might not “sleep” well, but recovery is still recovery.
### Less Demanding
One of the nice things about Coros is that it is less demanding, and less distracting. It presents you with run or ride data, current fatigue and other info, without encouraging you to check the app all the time. It’s designed for you to do the workout, look at the data, and move on with your day. It is also far more forgiving of you not wearing the watch all day, every day, for years. You could wear it for sleep for HRV status, and workouts, and forget about it for the rest of the time.
Summary
Whilst Garmin is meant to be more advanced, and provide far more data, by being too detail oriented about what it wants almost always gives negative feedback about sleep, HRV, and more. In the end it becomes too negative to be usable. In contrast, Coros tracks an activity, gives some info, and then leaves you alone.
In the age of never-ending feedback it is nice to be left alone to enjoy running, cycling and more. The only niggle I noticed is that the heart rate, recently was 20bpm higher on Coros than on Garmin. In theory an HR band, or strap, solves this issue.
#coros #cycling #fitness #Garmin #maps #running #swimming -
Another bench success today - Samsung gear S3 frontier not charging / not switching on. Damaged motherboard, switch inop and battery u/s… all repaired now. #RepairReuseRecycle #watch #aberdeenshire #koolWatchRepairs #garmin #samsung #coros #running #repaircafe #repair
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Quite a fast one (for me) today. On a 750 meters long steep climb, I ran past a cyclist whom I met later on on top of the hills, both of us smiling broadly. But I was really happy to keep my speed up: Usually, I get up there with a pace of 5:50-6:10, today it was 5:11 – yay! My current audiobook (THE NAME OF THE WIND by Patrick Rothfuss) is ideal to push me on. And I even managed to do my #RopeSkipping afterwards. #Running #coros #Apex4 #audiobooks