inputs.text: great watch current pace explanation - watch 3 months never owned type gps enable watch one however father owns forerunner 305 mother forerunner 405 still experience watches well opinion best watch group hands watch literally feels like standard stopwatch no extra weight no extra bulk 405 not quite fit like normal watch due antenna extending wrist strap watch extremely comfortable wear times adjustable size holes go around entire strap watch basic runners thus lacks extra bells whistles 305 405 ghost trainers breadcrumb directions however watch gives current pace moment distance calories time heart rate chimes lap standard running regimen watch enough supplement good hard workoutcurrent pace explanationi noticed lot confusion idea watch lacking current realtime pace however quite honest real time pace gps watch pretty useless gps watch not hooked satellite continuously no gps world capability instead gps certain ping time send receive signal satellite advanced gps systems quicker pings closely mimic continuous connection connection still never actually continuous watches advertise current pace watch simply showing exact speed going last two pings basically watch calculates distance traveled ping uses time took go distance get speed leaves lot room random spikes troughs data no human run single speed across certain distance human body simply cannot set cruise go thus real time pace fairly useless runner let give example someone turn forerunner 405 set show current pace run 20 seconds 800minmi pace assuming watch ping every 2 seconds data would look something like 652 720 815747 830 659 802 810 etcobviously data not really constant 800minmi pace however person may still well able hit exactly 800min mile forerunner 110 rather show data ping takes ping adds list every ping recorded across time frame averages together final number shown watch thus called current average pace honesty much useful one trying hit certain pace goal basically current average pace quite accurately depict mile split well youve reached mile markerif speed significantly ping data thus lower range bring average time might think means watch displays pace doesnt refresh often however exact opposite true watch refresh current average pace every time another ping comes inso basically current average pace could hypothetically move every single ping due beauty average watch not jump around sporadically like current pace rather stay around certain time gradually move according speed essence current pace lot gps watches really truly useless people never end using doesnt actuallygive solid data work data changing dramatically second data plain useless fyi runners may noticed random spikes fastest pace garmin software show uploading data basically fastest pace run means one single ping run might run 534minmile pace 1 second however pace still part data added overall time still counts fastest pace run even though average mile pace workout 834another nice thing watch run saved history watch accessed show average pace entire distance rather mile splits mile splits older runs accessed viewed watch connected computer data uploadedhope cleared confusion current average pace forerunner 110