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?

  • Comfortable-Draft596@alien.topBEnglish
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    11 months ago

    I ran the 50th NY marathon in 21 wearing an AW. It was decently accurate. You really don’t encounter the tall buildings until like the last 5 miles if I recall. Last 2 miles to the finish is in Central Park. I have recently gone back to my Garmin due to battery life and Garmin notifies you when you left your phone behind by vibrating. AW does not do that or I haven’t figured out how to make it do that. AW just has a little visual alert on the top of the screen. Doesn’t help if you don’t look at your AW for a while.