Wanting to sell fr 970 for a coros pace 4 for middle distance track trainings.
Im 99% close of getting the coros jakob edition. How are their watches durable? I read some comments of people saying their coros did not last.
I did enjoy my garmin speaker but i guess coros does have Bluetooth to pair some headphones or i can use the beeps and vibrations.
I was using garmin adaptive plan for 5ks and 1500 meterse but guess what? I feel garmin adaptive plan is like a marathon plan just with fewer miles. I can see coros has farletks (where you dont stop) and coros has real track pyramid sesiones for 400x or 800x repetitions where garmin only gives me 15 seconds or 45 second sprints lol.
I used to train with a coach and i can easily see coros approach uses classic track coach for fartleks, real track workots and real aerobic+strides. Garmin will only send you for full sprint sesion of 15 seconds repetitions but never something like Coros (40 minutes aerobic) followed by 6 strides to build preparation for live track races. No one in a middle distance race will.give you a 3 minute rest like garmin's intervals lol. Thats why i preferred farleks when i used to be with a coach and coros seems to align closer to true track and field core. I also like that you are saying that coros is more realistic than garmin in race prediction.
I felt bad at the fact i could not reach what garmin thought i was capable of in a 5k but i do want to get back to track and field 400mts, 800mts 1500mts, and 5000mts. And occacionally do road 5ks-10ks. Would you recommend i keep my garmin and buy the coros pace 4 jakob edition or should i sell garmin before getting coros?
Side note: my heart does feel great in tracks lol. On weekends i usually tend to look for tracks to run. So i can easily do the short and middle distance pyramids on weekends and maybe train 2 days in the week. But with garmin it does not let me specify that i want to do track sessions on sat-sund and anyways garmin sprints is 15-45 seconds pacings only.
Key info: my best 400mts was 57 seconds, best 100mts 12.60 seconds, best 1500mts 5.49 and best 5000mts 20.50 minutes.