i’m running the NYC marathon soon and am wondering how folks have used their watches in world major marathons (i.e., highly dense, tall building obstruction).

i was planning on tracking from workouts, but also have strava.

i figure GPS will be unreliable, but is it worth it to try and manually lap each mile (only on workouts, not on strava), or basically just use it as a fancy stopwatch that can give some stats on HR and rough estimates of pace?

fwiw, i have a series 8, so don’t have a dedicated button to lap and would need to double tap.

any other tips?

  • JurreMijl@alien.topBEnglish
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    1 year ago

    I’m not familiar with the NYC marathon specifically, but at every other marathon I’ve watched or ran there are markers along the road telling you the elapsed distance. Some marathons will do every 5km, others every mile or every 3 or 5 miles. If you know which distance markers will be posted along the route you can manually create a lap at those places and use that to keep track of your pace.