Running Watches & Tech

A budget GPS running watch is a wrist-worn sports tracker with built-in satellite positioning, optical heart rate and run-specific metrics, priced well below premium models (typically under £250, and often under £150). It logs pace, distance and route without your phone, giving beginners and improvers the core data serious runners rely on. 2026 is a … Read more

A running watch for marathon training is a GPS sports watch built to track pace, distance and heart rate over long efforts, then turn that data into guidance: pacing alerts, training load, recovery advice and race predictions. The best models last well beyond your finishing time and stay accurate between tall buildings. Here’s the thing … Read more

Somewhere between “I should start running” and actually lacing up, most new runners hit the same wall: the watch aisle. Row after row of numbers, acronyms and price tags that climb into the hundreds, all promising to make you faster, fitter, or at least more accountable to your own Monday-morning resolutions. It’s genuinely overwhelming, and … Read more

Stand in any parkrun car park on a Saturday morning and you’ll spot the same two logos glinting on wrists everywhere: the little red “P” of Polar and the bold black diamond of Garmin. Choosing between a Polar vs Garmin running watch is one of those decisions that feels enormous right up until you actually … Read more

Stand in any parkrun car park on a Saturday morning and you’ll spot the same argument playing out on wrists everywhere: Garmin vs Coros running watch, round several thousand. It’s not a trivial choice, either. Pick the wrong one and you’ll either overpay for smartwatch features you never touch, or underbuy and find yourself squinting … Read more

Lace up, glance at your wrist, go. That’s the promise of using an Apple Watch for running, and for the most part it delivers — provided you pick the right model for the miles you actually run. An Apple Watch for running is Apple’s wrist-worn fitness computer, combining GPS, an optical and electrical heart sensor, … Read more

Somewhere between the fourth mile and the fifth, your phone battery starts flashing red, your running app freezes, and you’re left guessing whether you’ve actually hit your pace target or just imagined it. This is roughly the moment most runners start googling a Suunto running watch, and honestly, it’s a sensible place to end up. … Read more

There’s a particular kind of dread that comes with watching a battery icon flash red at mile 60 of a race you’ve spent a year training for. It’s the reason so many endurance athletes end up switching allegiances to Coros. A Coros running watch is a GPS sports watch built primarily around three things: multi-day … Read more