|
Garmin Forerunner 101 Wrist-Mounted GPS Personal Training Device
|
| Price: | £99.78 |
Availability: Usually dispatched within 1-2 business days
Dispatched from and sold by ox_ac_uk
3 new or used available from £89.65
Average customer review:
Product Description
Garmin GPS Forerunner 101
Product Details
- Amazon Sales Rank: #10139 in Consumer Electronics
- Brand: Garmin
- Model: 010-00329-05
- Released on: 2005-02-24
- Dimensions: .0" h x .0" w x .0" l, .66 pounds
- Display size: 1.5
Editorial Reviews
Manufacturer's Description
The Forerunner 101 offers athletes an easy-to-read display and integrated GPS sensor that provides precise speed, distance, and pace data--all in one compact unit that straps to your wrist. It's a lightweight, accurate training assistant with performance tracking, auto-lap, auto-pause and more.
| ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Although it lacks the rechargeable battery and PC connectivity features of the Forerunner 201, the 101 retains all of the other great features of the 201, at an even more affordable price. The Virtual Partner feature allows you to set your training goal by configuring your Virtual Partner's pace and workout distance. You'll get a graphic perspective of your performance by viewing your pace in relation to your Virtual Partner's pace, so you can always see at a glance if you're keeping up or falling behind.
Almost as important as the training device itself are the accessories to integrate it with your active lifestyle. If you're into cycling, the best way to keep an eye on your GPS while you ride is with a bike mount bracket that straps to the handlebars of your bike, motorcycle, or whatever you're traveling with for easy viewing.
Other Forerunner 101 features:
- Mark specific locations, and then look-up and navigate to these points using an electronic map.
- Amount of calories burned can be tracked and calculated over the course of a workout.
- Lap history--such as lap time, lap distance, and average pace--can be stored for 5000 laps.
- Performance data can be automatically archived and calculated to provide an accurate record.
- Automated stopwatch provides auto-lap and auto-pause features.
- Pace whistle sounds alert when you begin traveling slower or faster than your desired pace.
- Time and distance whistles can be set to sound when you reach a specified duration or distance in your workout.
 Auto Menu: Timer pauses when you stop running. Auto lap logs your performance over a predetermined distance. |  History: Review training history by day or week. |  Map: Navigate back to the start or to a stored location. |  Virtual Partner: Set time, pace, and distance goals, and train with a "virtual partner." |
Customer Reviews
A good pace forward
This is an extremely useful gadget for anyone interested in accurately monitoring their running/jogging/walking, or biking performance. I don't even want to remember those days when I clipped a clicky-di-clack pedometer to my hip, hoping it'll give me some idea of the distances over which I'd laboured myself.
The Forerunner is just the extra leap the user needs. There are the main features, such as real-time recording of pace (i.e., min per km or mile) or speed (both of which can be easily switched), as well as time elapsed and distance covered. However, even the relatively basic Forerunner 101 comes with plenty of bells and whistles. A virtual partner lets you gauge in real time how far you're ahead or behind a target pace; info such as maximum and average pace and total distance (imperial or metric units can be readily switched) are logged for each run and stored by day and week. The map feature seems a little superfluous, since the screen is just too small to see any revealing features, but it's cool nonetheless.
The design and features are thoroughly professional and refined, and the navigation through the menus is very simple and intuitive - no fantastically confusing arrays of buttons. A simple menu button lets you switch between the different menu levels, which can be further navigated and selected with up-down buttons and an enter button, respectively. After just reading up on the basics, I largely ignored the menu, and just played around with it no problem.
Its accuracy is simply exceptional - just a few days after the inaugural run, I wore it during a 10-mile race, and at crossing over the finish line, its deviation from the distance advertised was just 0.4% - so miniscule that it really proved its mettle and attests to the fidelity of the instrument (and the diligent surveying of the race organisers).
Granted, it's a tad bulkier than an ordinary stop watch, or pulse monitor, but it fits even spindly wrists (with a sportsy Velcro band) just fine. And it doesn't add that much weight that one should be concerned about losing minutes in the workout because of it.
As it is GPS based, it takes a few moments for it to get its bearings. However, as detailed in the manual, usually after less than one minute it has made a stable connection. Running beneath dense tree canopies can dupe it a little, and running close to solid barriers, such as walls or tall houses can shush the signal. So, for obvious reasons, it's no good using it on an indoor track.
Highly recommended for the serious athlete, enthusiastic runner, as well as the laid-back jogger or walker!
Excellent
I bought the Forerunner 101 to help improve my run times. I found it a little complicated at first, mainly because the manual is very skimpy, but now I've got the hang of (most) of it I wonder how I ever managed without it. The ability to enter a time / distance / pace you want to achieve and then have the Forerunner constantly showing you whether you are ahead or behind your target, and by how much, is incredibly useful. Battery life is good if you use top quality batteries. Overall the unit is very well designed and light enough to go un-noticed on the wrist. I also like the Calories Burned feature, which takes into account your weight, distance and descent/ascent.
Overall, highly reccomended.
Great piece of kit
Well, after much deliberation whether to go for the 101 or the 201 or 301 - I'm chuffed with my decision. You've got to ask yourself - how often will you hook the more expensive models up to your pc for data analysis etc?? If like me the novelty will have worn off in 2 days, then the 101 is the ideal piece of kit.
Used it now for a few runs and the data shown, as well as post run info (average pace, calories used) is great.
A definate recommendation.
