Garmin Forerunner 110 GPS Enabled Unisex Sports Watch

I've given this five stars.

I had tried on some of the 105, 205, 310, and 405 watches and I was generally unhappy with the size / comfort of them. Especially the 405 range - they're really uncomfortable for someone with small wrists, as even though you'll be able to adjust the strap to fit you okay - the back facing on the 405s don't fit snug against the forearm part of your wrist (again that's just for people with small wrists.)

The 110 fits very comforably. I went for the version without heartrate as I don't have a requirement for heartrate. I think the watch looks plain but nice. You could get away with wearing this as a normal watch. It also looks nice when the blue backlight is operated.

Functionality. This is the ideal watch for me. I haven't connected it to a pc yet as I was I'm only just back from injury and haven't had much time to check out pc features yet. I deliberately went for the simpler option of the 110 gps as I don't want to get too caught up in after training analysis (Analysis is Paralysis!)

The watch comes with a small user manual that's very easy to read and understand so I'd advise any purchaser to read that.

In the set up you can select your 110 gps watch to measure your PACE or your SPEED. You can amend your set up at any stage in the future so don't be afraid to experiment. I have mine set up to measure my PACE. You're also asked to set the units at miles or km. And you're also asked to set lap distances. I have my watch on Miles, and I set my lap distance to 0.25 Mile. You can turn the alarm beep on / off (it beeps every lap unless you turn the beep off.)

My watch takes about 1 minute approximately to locate the satelites at which point you can press the start button to begin your run. One day I started my run while it was still locating the satelites with the intention of pressing "start" when the satelites were located but it was taking ages and ages and the progress bar was fluctuating but never completing. After about five minutes I decided to stop running and wait for the satelite location to complete. Once I stopped running it took about just 30 seconds to complete the satelite location. I don't think that's a fault though. I imagine that you need to be stationary while the gps device locates the satelites and running during this phase disrupts the process. So my advice is if you've already bought this watch or if you're thinking of buying one - DON'T start your run until the satelite location is completed.

When using the settings as described above (MILES, PACE, lap 0.25 mile) - when running, on the display you'll have three readngs.
1) Main reading in the centre of display - The total time elapsed since you started your run
2) At the top of the display in small digits - The total distance elapsed since you started your run
3) At the bottom of the display - The current pace (e.g. 8:30) - with my settings as described, means in this example my current pace is 8 min 30 sec miles.

Every lap (0.25 mile in my case) it beeps (you can turn the beep off if you like.) Every time you complete a lap the display gives new info for a few seconds (you can also press "ok" when the "last lap" info is displayed to get back to your normal display.) The three readings on the "last lap" display are:

1) Main reading in the centre of display - The time taken to run last lap
2) At the top of the display - The distance of the last lap (this is obviously what you set your lap at, i.e. 0.25 mile in my case.)
3) At the bottom of the display - The average pace of the last lap (for example, average 8 min 20 sec / miles pace for that lap)

Finally at the end of your run, press the stop button. Then hold the reset button (it prompts you to hold if for a few seconds.) At that point the watch then re-calculates your average pace for the WHOLE of the run and saves it to the history. Simple. Perfect.

As of yet I haven't experimented further with what it can do when connected to a pc. But I purchased it primarily for the uses outlined above. It's ideal (for me) plus from a hardware point of view it's superb. I've given it five stars without hesitation, and if I'm happy with additional features when I eventually rig it up to my pc - I'd give it six stars then if I was able to !!!

The watch delivered free to me in Ireland by Amazon UK. Thanks for that.

Noel,
County Cork.
Ireland.

The Garmin Forerunner 110 is a small, practical GPS watch. It's my first GPS watch - what attracted me to it was it's simplicity and size compared to the other bulky Garmin models. Garmin have put their GPS expertise into this model, and it certainly doesn't disappoint.

I've had my Forerunner 110 for around a week now and it's worked perfectly every time I've taken it out for a run. Unlike the previous reviewer, I bothered to read the (short and clear) instructions on the initial setup and how to use it, before actually trying it out - and had no problems whatsoever. When outdoors, it takes maybe 30-60 seconds to locate satellites - once it's done that, you just press Start and start running. Simple.

There's no software to install - just a download from Garmin, which is a similarly painless process. Data can be uploaded to the Garmin Connect website, which is a great service for checking tabs on your mileage and pace, and looking at graphs. Everyone likes graphs, don't they?

The only downside is the fact that, as mentioned, in the box you get a pile of instruction booklets catering for every language - about 12 separate instructions! This seems wasteful.

I was looking for a simple GPS watch, to keep accurate tabs on my pace and distance, without the bells and whistles. The Forerunner 110 is exactly that.

I've had a Garmin 205 for a while and was attracted to the 110 for it's small size and ease of use. The sattelite connection is much faster that the 205, no more hanging around in the cold waiting for the connection to complete. It lacks the ability to plan training sessions but I so rarely used that feature that I can happily live without it. You can switch off the default lap counter and just use the lap button to record lap times, so you can still record an interval workout - so long as someone else is calling out the time for each effort to start and stop!

The UBS data and power clip is a bit fiddly, you have to have the connections just right for it to work - I'm not sure why they didn't use a cradle as with the 205.

If you just want to track your pace and distance then I'd really recommend this watch. It does that job really well.