Started with the Forerunner 610

- Once the logic in organizing the menus understood, the Forerunner 610 is quite simple and logical to use.
- Weight and dimensions quite acceptable given the many board functions
- Touchscreen intentionally less sensitive than the Touch Pad PC (or other smartphones) to prevent false manipulation in the race must actually not be afraid to press a little on the screen, but even wet fingers meets the Forerunner 610 well and just a flick with your finger or fingernail to change display mode without having to drag your finger. Very handy in your delicate moments of races where scroll through screens by sliding fingers are loss of concentration and a source of irritation risky.
- Plan of around 1min30 2min to receive GPS signals in open ground, then you can start the stopwatch and start your race. It is not necessary to wait until the last moment before departure to make this setting.
- In the race in full effort or for those who have a visual acuity decreased and according to alarms set, it can be difficult to read what is displayed on the screen of the Forerunner 610.
- Customize the display possible knowing that the default views are already very full
- No GPS loss recorded in relatively clear urban areas. Useful speed rating even if a smoothing of values ​​would have been desirable. Beware, if you pause the clock stopped and then you restart the clock once your run recovery calculated speed for a few seconds at startup can surprise you with its high value. Evaluation of the correct distance (except passing through tunnels, see below)
- Passage in a tunnel (about 500m) there is certainly a loss of GPS connection. At the tunnel exit, after a few seconds the position is recovered but there is no evaluation of the distance traveled between two points.
- Synchronizing wireless data with the PC via the key ANT + very good. Automatic recognition of new handy data.
- Possession and data analysis in the GARMIN shapely software, easy to use and synthetic. The restitution of the path on a google map mapping is correct even if the path deviates from the actual path which is absolutely not annoying if you do not search accuracy to about 5m or 10m.

IN SUMMARY: Many technologies and potential in so small. A neat and nice design to wear. An undeniable assistance to the preparation, execution and analysis of your races. Except of course altimeter information, all relevant data can be displayed in real time. 2 recommendations for improvement:
- Quality display of alarm messages that can be run, depending on the state of your sight, difficult to read because the font is too small for my taste and too large pixels
- The time required for the Forerunner 610 to align with the satellite constellation to find its location