Whenever you need a training aid to push your training to the next level, the Garmin Forerunner 410 is the best watch for the job. Yes, it’s a watch; but it’s not an ordinary watch. This is a GPS watch and has more functions than most training aids from the last decade put together. Also it is sized like a watch and yet packs a touchscreen bezel for easy use and waterproof for use in any kind of weather.
Training seriously for a marathon used to be a several man job. You needed a form of transportation as well since most of the time, you do not know how fast you were running or how long you have been running. You also needed a driver for that transportation and another person needed to write down the data of your current performance. This would be in addition to probably yet another member to tell you what you need to do at certain periods of time, and so on and so forth.
With a GPS watch, you do not need anything else. The watch sports a huge amount of storable data from your training performance, plus it includes an optional heart rate monitor, lap time, speed, optional power monitoring and so much more.
The heart of the watch is its built in GPS receiver. Just like most types of GPS receivers, it locks into satellites that are passing overhead to let you know how fast you are moving. But the power of the watch does not stop there; there is the built in virtual partner that acts like a real partner that trains with you, and can let you know if you still needs to more training by telling you if you lack speed or endurance in certain parts of the course that you just ran.
The watch can also be automatically synched with your desktop computer so that you can download and analyze your performance from the training session. You can in fact download up to three training pages full of data if you need to analyze any data from your past training.
This is very handy if you feel that you may be lacking in one or more fields but you do not know exactly where you are lacking in.
The watch also allow you to make up to 100 waypoints while you are running. This is very useful if you train in the same course and see if you have improved in certain sections or not, what by how much. This is particularly useful when you have a certain weakness in a single part of the course and you need to identify how to correct that weakness.
Unlike training in the olden days, you now only need a special watch to make the most out of your training. While there are sport watches out there that can be used in training for marathons and similar events, the addition of the GPS receiver in the Garmin Forerunner 410 plus the advantage of having to download all of your training data to your computer makes this GPS watch the premiere watch-to-have for those who are serious in winning.