New Garmin Fenix 3 and Epix

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Mar 2015
11:41pm, 6 Mar 2015
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Springer
Oh well least youre on the list and not needing to start again.
I ordered sapphire from CO and grey from buck bikes and have decided to keep the sapphire but hell that metal strap adds weight. I will never bother my arse swapping back to it for a night out or whatever, so will add that to the grey One Im selling.
Mar 2015
11:47pm, 6 Mar 2015
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flanker
wear the metal strap for training, and change it for 'A' races. the lack of weight will be worth a few seconds :-)

I'l be wearing it with a suit during the day, so will probably keep the metal strap on most of the time.
Mar 2015
6:25am, 7 Mar 2015
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Markonline99
It didn't get the watch yesterday due to ukmail.com delivering to the wrong address. Customer services really unhelpful. Hopefully get call from them today but they seem completely useless. Just a snapshot of what I've been experiencing: the item has not been delivered ... yes, the item has been delivered ... no, it hasn't ... yes, it has, just the wrong address! FFS where do you go from there? Anyway just off for an LSR with the trusty old 305.
Mar 2015
7:17pm, 7 Mar 2015
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Badger
I got mine delivered to my local branch of Cotswolds just to avoid that!
Mar 2015
7:17pm, 7 Mar 2015
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Badger
I got mine delivered to my local branch of Cotswolds just to avoid that!
Mar 2015
7:18pm, 7 Mar 2015
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Badger
Uh? Didn't reload that or press submit twice. Pesky phone.
Mar 2015
9:52am, 9 Mar 2015
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Badger
If anyone's curious about GPS accuracy, here are tracks for the Cambridge Half yesterday recorded on my Ambit 2 and my F3:
bing.com
Much of the route is fairly unchallenging for GPS, but bits like the sharp turn down Trinity Lane and Garrett Hostel Lane are really hard - they are barely wide enough to get one car down with three or four storeys either side, so the sky view is very poor.
F3 read 12.90 miles and A2 read 13.34 miles, so the F3 is slightly closer to the certified distance at 1.5% short rather than 1.8% long. Generally the F3 tends to smooth corners out and the A2 tends to go wide.
Mar 2015
8:09pm, 9 Mar 2015
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Springer
Thanks Badger, only used mine once on a 22 mile training run yesterday and extremely accurate apart from a section through trees where it was surprisingly poor in comparison. I didn't have glonass on, I guess you didn't either above?
Mar 2015
8:52pm, 9 Mar 2015
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Badger
I did have Glonass on, yes. I am not sure how much difference it's going to make to be honest - the places where it was struggling were where the sky view is awful. I've been given the impression that it locks GPS satellites in preference, and only Glonass if it can't see enough GPS, so it might have had to start looking for the lock then, and with that narrow a sky view, left-right precision is going to be ropey anyway.

I'm going to try it on Cambridge parkrun some time soon - it's very hard on GPS watches, lots of tree cover and sharp direction changes. Never seen it recorded longer than 3.11, seen it as short as 2.99 once on a 610, which are supposed to be pretty accurate.
Mar 2015
8:57pm, 9 Mar 2015
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flanker
Have you done a battery exhaustion test yet? I'd be interested to know how long you get from a full charge (with or without fancy features turned on). Garmin say 16 or 20 hours, depending what you read. DCR says 18 on his test. I'd be disappointed if it's much below 18 as I get more than that from my 910. I'd rather not have to have to recharge twice on an ultra!

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Fenix 3 - mix of the old Fenix and the 920xt:
http://www.dcrainmaker.com/2015/01/garmin-fenix3-firs...

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