![]() TomTom Runner Cardio as an activity monitor.Start 3 - 2h15m continuous race (XXIX Marbella Half Marathon).GPS reliability of the TomTom Runner Cardio.This will be particularly useful when we’re on holiday and I’m unable to sync it to the desktop. Handily though, I can also use my phone to sync the data instead. ![]() I connect my watch to the computer when I’m working and it updates with the activities I’ve done since I last plugged it in. TomTom MySports is a great way to keep all your activity data in one place online. I did wonder afterwards if it thought I was dancing but it was useful to separate walking from running. I therefore used it for walking and it happily recorded my distance, duration, energy, speed, elevation and heart rate. I’m not sure what freestyle means, so I took it to be just any activity that you wanted to record. The activities recorded by the watch are run, cycle, swim, treadmill, gym, indoor cycling and ‘freestyle’. This is a distinct setting from cycling outdoors, so it doesn’t require GPS to record your activity. For now though, I’m loving the function on the TomTom Spark that allows me to record indoor cycling. I’m hoping to get back to cycling outdoors in due course. CyclingĪt the moment, my bike is on our turbo trainer inside so that my husband can use it as well. It is excellent being able to use the watch in the pool as well as running. So far I’ve knocked a minute off my time and I’m hoping to improve more in the coming weeks. I’ve been timing myself swimming a mile and it gives me my distance and time by the end. ![]() I know GPS doesn’t work inside, so I have no idea how it’s doing this – magic perhaps?Įither way, it’s really useful. I really don’t know how it does this, but the watch knows both how many lengths I’ve done and how far each length is, thereby knowing my total distance. In the meantime, I’ve tested the watch in the pool. I’ll be swimming without a wetsuit so it’s going to be pretty chilly. Much as I am delighted to see the sunshine that has now moved in, I’m giving it a few more weeks to warm up before I get in the lake. What happened? Well, it snowed, that’s what happened. When I agreed to review the TomTom Spark Cardio sports watch, I was determined to include an open water swim as part of my review. The button is well protected by the strap, so when I’m running with the dog lead around my wrist, sudden movements from Bubbles don’t pause my run. I also like the fact that there is just one large button that can be pressed in four directions to access the menu. The digits are large enough to glance at whilst running without worrying about losing pace or falling over. Whilst running, you can change the screen to show information about time taken, pace, calories and heart rate. I really like the inclusion of heart rate without having to wear a separate heart rate monitor. All this data allows it to accurately tell you how many calories you’re burning during a run. This information is combined with the age, weight and height details submitted onto the TomTom MySports app and the watch also picks up your gradient. Once the watch has found the signal, it buzzes and tells you that it’s ready.Īs soon as you get going, the watch starts recording your heartbeat from the heartbeat monitor that is on the watch itself. This is partly because you can update it with the location of the satellites to make it quicker for the watch to track where they are when it needs them. It picks up the GPS signal easily with the press of a button. Runningįor me, running is where theTomTom Spark Cardio really comes into its own. It has given me the kick I needed to try to get a bit more sleep, there’s no way I can be functioning properly if I’m averaging under four hours a night. The watch generally says I’ve been sleeping for around three to four hours a night. ![]() This does sound like it might be quite accurate, which worries me a little bit. I would therefore have estimated that I’d had around 5 hours broken sleep, but the watch says I slept for 3 hours and 49 minutes. Once during the night, I got up to Lia and once to sort the dog out. I think I was asleep by around 1 am and I don’t recall the children waking up much before 6.30 am. I’m not sure whether the watch is underestimating the amount of time I’ve been sleeping or if I’d been overestimating it. I’ve found this really useful, giving me some interesting data. This is based on movement, so you need to wear the watch to bed so it can pick up on the amount of time you’ve been still enough that it thinks you’ve been asleep. The other thing the TomTom Spark Cardio does automatically is to record the amount of time you’ve slept for. ![]()
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