I think with this approach (updating their app, trying to give as much as possible at a price point instead cutting features out intentionally), their next gen watches, Apex 3 and Pace 3 will be killer.
Do you have to manually go into the Coros app after every run to make sure data for that activity has uploaded (and thus uploaded to Strava) unlike an Apple Watch which would just automatically upload once connected to your phone?
No the uploads are automatic, although you can sync manually if you wish. In my experience the sync is pretty quick even I’d you have been away from your phone, as soon as you are back in range the sync will begin.
Awesome video.. does anyone know if you have to run with the iphone? or will your watch hold the data and sync to the app once you get back to your phone?
Great info, thanks! I'm an older runner, so I need to track my heart rate closely. Are there alarms? E.g. Max heart rate &c? And can any of the info be printed out (to show my GP)? Thanks!
Yes alerts can be set up for heart rate max, min and average. As for printing it out, you can export the data to CSV and then send it to your computer and print it out from there. This is the raw data only not the graphs, but you could use that data to generate similar ones.
Hi, is it possible to enter the gear used during the activity? For example a specific type of shoes in order to track the mileage of the shoes in time? Many thanks
Yes it is you can add shoes and bikes as well as create custom gear. You can even set gear to be added by default to certain activities. Say you always run in the same shoes, you can set them to be automatically added to running so you don’t have to do it each time. You manage your gear in settings and can add and edit under each activity. Maybe this would make a good video 🤔…
@@chrisguess Many thanks. That's very useful. My son's running is getting more serious now (he's currently using Amazfit gtr2e which is quite limited/inaccurate when it comes to running) so I'm very undecided between the Coros P2 and Garmin 245 (I've also watched your comparison/score video of the two watches). Garmin heavily discounted at the moment (also on the official Garmin website...maybe a new version out in the next few months) but the battery of the P2 is a very big incentive. I'll have to make my mind up. Many thanks for your very detailed and comprehensive reviews (I've just subscribed).
Thanks, I think the assumption is that we can figure out exactly how every app and device works these days, without any instructions, so long as there are some pretty icons.
Awesome video ! Was wondering if there is a way to see the seconds you have been paused in an activity. For example if I’m running and I pause can it show me at the bottom how long I’ve been paused ?
please be honest is the sleep tracking any good ? I have seen 40$ Bands having a great accuracy for sleep tracking is this good for sleep tracking or just for running ?
Sleep tracking seems fairly reliable, giving you deep & light sleep, awake time, total sleep time, HR range and average HR. It’s difficult to really know how accurate a device is for sleep and I haven’t extensively tested this device specifically for sleep tracking but I was happy with the data.
Hi Chris I’m thinking of getting a pace 2 and would like to pair this with my iPad Pro and use it in conjunction with this to set watch up, view my stats etc as oppose to pairing it with my smartphone. Do you know if this possible or does the watch have to be paired with a smartphone to use it. Many thanks
I made this video to answer your question: Can you set up a COROS Running Watch with an iPad? th-cam.com/users/shorts9v0D1bzePcw?feature=share hope that helps
Hi Chris .. great review .. QQ can you connect a Garmin HR monitor to the watch and if so will it show the running dynamics in the Coros app i.e. stride length, ground contact etc or is that proprietary to Garmin devices. Thanks
Yes you can connect ant+ accessories, but I’m not sure what metrics it will show in the app. Obviously HR will show but not sure if it will pick up the same as the COROS pod?
Hello! Do you or anyone know if you can access the Coros app on a desktop computer/web browser? I just hate doing stuff like this on my phone. Thank you for this video! I am deciding between the Pace 2 and Garmin 245 and this video is swaying me to Coros.
As far as I'm aware there is no web interface at this stage. You would be better off with the Garmin if that's a deal breaker for you. 245 vs Pace 2 video might be coming...
Very usefull to get some inside off how the app works. I thinking of buying a Coros Pace 2. Can you tell me which signals you can get when you have done lap /km?
Question: I don't have my Coros watch with me and want to track upcoming run directly with the phone. Does the Coros phone App enable directly tracking or do I need to use a 3rd party app (eg Asic Runkeeper) and patch the info to Coros App afterwards?
I am waiting for my Pace 2 to arrive in a couple of days. A dumb question: after you loaded a workout session to the watch, how do you interact with the watch to complete the workout on the track?
Hey just wondering does the coros line of wearables/app show your entire calories burnt for the day or just the active calories (from a workout) I have a Huawei watch and was extremely frustrated when I bought it to find out it only shows your active calories burnt from a workout. There is no way to find out your total calorie expenditure taking into account your steps and resting calories, sitting at work etc throughout the whole day. Thanks!
@@chrisguess oh wow awesome thanks so much! Yea my old Garmin used to show your total coal prices burnt for the day. Then I purchased a Huawei and it doesn’t so was really annoying. Thanks for letting me know!
Hi Chris, I am a bit confused with Night mode and Gesture Backlight on my Pace 2. I would like my watch turn off all lights on the display ( pitch black) during my night mode, say 10 PM TO 6 AM. But I don't have that option of giving a window for night mode. Regarding the Gesture Backlight , there is no option of turning off lights during Night mode. There's either OFF or ALL DAY or AUTO ( to keep light on) from sunset through sunrise, What exactly I wanted is a Window for Turning all lights off during my bed time!! Thank you
Since the optical heart rate sensor is not very accurate, I was wondering whether I can connect a chest heart rate sensor to the Pace 2 and get the reading on the watch?
@@chrisguess Can the optical sensor be turned off? I don't trust it either and I would prefer to keep it off all the time so that it will not consume battery.
One of the best videos, thanks! I own an Apex Pro since yesterday so I am trying to learn. Question: is it possible to see the average pace of my total runs over, for example, the past month?
I had a look and I don’t think so, you can see distance, time and number of runs but it doesn’t give you the average pace unfortunately, but you could work it out.
Great video, thanks for the walk through! Current situation is that I use a Garmin watch, sync to Garmin Connect, write notes for my workouts and the coach sees and interprets them. Now that I have decided to buy Pace 2, how can I share my workouts with my coach? If there is no portal for others to see my workouts, is it posisble to sync workouts in Coros with Garmin Connect? I hope I will not have to export and import them to Garmin Connect manually...
Does the App download separately tracked activities from 3rd party apps and put them in the Activities tab? For instance a bike ride recorded with a Wahoo and uploaded to Strava...
To be honest I'm not sure about that but I doubt it, unless the device is compatible with a Garmin device like HR strap in that case it would. Does Wahoo connect to a Garmin device?
@@chrisguess it doesn't, but what I'm looking for is for it to download from a 3rd Party _that both can connect to._ Funnily enough my otherwise rubbish Fitbit downloads all my Wahoo-tracked bike rides from Strava and displays them in the activity log in the Fitbit app.. that's what I want - but with a less rubbish watch, like a Coros. If I get a Coros but all my activities are scattered across different apps/services that's rubbish too IMO...
Excellent, just the video I was looking for. Perhaps I've just been a bit dumb, but so far I've been less than impressed by coros's user guides. I'm beginning to wish I'd opted for the simpler garmin 55. As Clint Eastwood would say "a man's gotta know his limitations".
@@chrisguess thanks indeed to clarify that. Your review at least help to figure out somehow what's going on at app level inside of GPS watch ecosystem which in other TH-cam review is not covered. Thanks 🙏🙏
Thanks, yes you can under your profile in stats, you can see 1K, 1M, 5K, 10K, Half Marathon and Farthest. Or at least that's what I get, I assume Marathon distance will be added when I eventually am able to complete the marathon I was supposed to run in May 2020!
@@chrisguess thanks for the reply. Under profile i see workout programs, training programs, navigation etc and in profile tab, i only see profile photo, username, description, bodyweight/gender/height/ etc... I don`t know where to find the PBs, but i`ll keep looking. Thanks again.
Thank you. We need more of these kinda videos showing the app interface. Your's is a gem.
Thanks, I appreciate it.
Fantastic video! Most comprehensive one I've seen!
Thank you
I think with this approach (updating their app, trying to give as much as possible at a price point instead cutting features out intentionally), their next gen watches, Apex 3 and Pace 3 will be killer.
I agree they are definitely on to something
First there had to be a apex 2
Do you have to manually go into the Coros app after every run to make sure data for that activity has uploaded (and thus uploaded to Strava) unlike an Apple Watch which would just automatically upload once connected to your phone?
No the uploads are automatic, although you can sync manually if you wish. In my experience the sync is pretty quick even I’d you have been away from your phone, as soon as you are back in range the sync will begin.
Awesome video.. does anyone know if you have to run with the iphone? or will your watch hold the data and sync to the app once you get back to your phone?
Thanks, no need to run with the phone, the watch will sync back just as you suggested. I don’t run with my phone.
Looks so much better than the Garmin connect app.
I agree, it’s much nicer looking.
Great info, thanks! I'm an older runner, so I need to track my heart rate closely. Are there alarms? E.g. Max heart rate &c? And can any of the info be printed out (to show my GP)? Thanks!
Yes alerts can be set up for heart rate max, min and average. As for printing it out, you can export the data to CSV and then send it to your computer and print it out from there. This is the raw data only not the graphs, but you could use that data to generate similar ones.
@@chrisguess Thank you. That's a very useful function, especially for those who monitor their health carefully.
Hi, is it possible to enter the gear used during the activity? For example a specific type of shoes in order to track the mileage of the shoes in time? Many thanks
Yes it is you can add shoes and bikes as well as create custom gear. You can even set gear to be added by default to certain activities. Say you always run in the same shoes, you can set them to be automatically added to running so you don’t have to do it each time. You manage your gear in settings and can add and edit under each activity.
Maybe this would make a good video 🤔…
@@chrisguess Many thanks. That's very useful. My son's running is getting more serious now (he's currently using Amazfit gtr2e which is quite limited/inaccurate when it comes to running) so I'm very undecided between the Coros P2 and Garmin 245 (I've also watched your comparison/score video of the two watches). Garmin heavily discounted at the moment (also on the official Garmin website...maybe a new version out in the next few months) but the battery of the P2 is a very big incentive. I'll have to make my mind up. Many thanks for your very detailed and comprehensive reviews (I've just subscribed).
Great video Chris well done, are you able to write notes of your run like the Garmin Connect...I may have missed it in the video.Thanks
Thanks.
No, no place for notes I’m afraid.
@@chrisguess Wow that's too bad :(
Great video! Is there no way to track the mileage for shoes used?
Thanks and no I don’t think so
Really useful thank you - especially as no instruction manual with watch
Thanks, I think the assumption is that we can figure out exactly how every app and device works these days, without any instructions, so long as there are some pretty icons.
Thanks for the video. Since there isn’t really any user guide with the watch this is super nice.
No problem, glad it was helpful!
Awesome video ! Was wondering if there is a way to see the seconds you have been paused in an activity. For example if I’m running and I pause can it show me at the bottom how long I’ve been paused ?
Thanks. Well you can see your total activity time and your elapsed time and work it out from there, but no separate metrics for it.
please be honest
is the sleep tracking any good ?
I have seen 40$ Bands having a great accuracy for sleep tracking
is this good for sleep tracking or just for running ?
Sleep tracking seems fairly reliable, giving you deep & light sleep, awake time, total sleep time, HR range and average HR. It’s difficult to really know how accurate a device is for sleep and I haven’t extensively tested this device specifically for sleep tracking but I was happy with the data.
Hi Chris I’m thinking of getting a pace 2 and would like to pair this with my iPad Pro and use it in conjunction with this to set watch up, view my stats etc as oppose to pairing it with my smartphone. Do you know if this possible or does the watch have to be paired with a smartphone to use it. Many thanks
I made this video to answer your question: Can you set up a COROS Running Watch with an iPad?
th-cam.com/users/shorts9v0D1bzePcw?feature=share hope that helps
Amazing 👍🏼 thank you so much for the walkthrough video Chris so helpful 😃 take care and happy running 🙌🏼
No sweat 👍🏻
Hi Chris .. great review .. QQ can you connect a Garmin HR monitor to the watch and if so will it show the running dynamics in the Coros app i.e. stride length, ground contact etc or is that proprietary to Garmin devices. Thanks
Yes you can connect ant+ accessories, but I’m not sure what metrics it will show in the app. Obviously HR will show but not sure if it will pick up the same as the COROS pod?
Hello! Do you or anyone know if you can access the Coros app on a desktop computer/web browser? I just hate doing stuff like this on my phone.
Thank you for this video! I am deciding between the Pace 2 and Garmin 245 and this video is swaying me to Coros.
As far as I'm aware there is no web interface at this stage. You would be better off with the Garmin if that's a deal breaker for you.
245 vs Pace 2 video might be coming...
Hello Chris, could you please make a video about the stryd pod? This would be much appreciated.
Would love to but don’t have one at the moment.
Very usefull to get some inside off how the app works. I thinking of buying a Coros Pace 2. Can you tell me which signals you can get when you have done lap /km?
You get lap time, lap number and overall elapsed time, but you can set activity alerts for pace, cadence, HR and power.
Question: I don't have my Coros watch with me and want to track upcoming run directly with the phone. Does the Coros phone App enable directly tracking or do I need to use a 3rd party app (eg Asic Runkeeper) and patch the info to Coros App afterwards?
Nope, you need a COROS device
I am waiting for my Pace 2 to arrive in a couple of days. A dumb question: after you loaded a workout session to the watch, how do you interact with the watch to complete the workout on the track?
Hey just wondering does the coros line of wearables/app show your entire calories burnt for the day or just the active calories (from a workout) I have a Huawei watch and was extremely frustrated when I bought it to find out it only shows your active calories burnt from a workout. There is no way to find out your total calorie expenditure taking into account your steps and resting calories, sitting at work etc throughout the whole day. Thanks!
Yes they do, you actually get a half-hourly graph in the app and on the watch itself.
@@chrisguess oh wow awesome thanks so much! Yea my old Garmin used to show your total coal prices burnt for the day. Then I purchased a Huawei and it doesn’t so was really annoying. Thanks for letting me know!
Hi Chris, I am a bit confused with Night mode and Gesture Backlight on my Pace 2. I would like my watch turn off all lights on the display ( pitch black) during my night mode, say 10 PM TO 6 AM. But I don't have that option of giving a window for night mode. Regarding the Gesture Backlight , there is no option of turning off lights during Night mode. There's either OFF or ALL DAY or AUTO ( to keep light on) from sunset through sunrise, What exactly I wanted is a Window for Turning all lights off during my bed time!! Thank you
In short no. If you watch my pace 2 review this is my exact frustration. The backlight just doesn’t work how I want it to.
Since the optical heart rate sensor is not very accurate, I was wondering whether I can connect a chest heart rate sensor to the Pace 2 and get the reading on the watch?
Yes you can, it has Ant+ and Bluetooth so can connect to a few different ones.
@@chrisguess Can the optical sensor be turned off? I don't trust it either and I would prefer to keep it off all the time so that it will not consume battery.
One of the best videos, thanks! I own an Apex Pro since yesterday so I am trying to learn.
Question: is it possible to see the average pace of my total runs over, for example, the past month?
I had a look and I don’t think so, you can see distance, time and number of runs but it doesn’t give you the average pace unfortunately, but you could work it out.
Great video, thanks for the walk through! Current situation is that I use a Garmin watch, sync to Garmin Connect, write notes for my workouts and the coach sees and interprets them. Now that I have decided to buy Pace 2, how can I share my workouts with my coach? If there is no portal for others to see my workouts, is it posisble to sync workouts in Coros with Garmin Connect? I hope I will not have to export and import them to Garmin Connect manually...
Chris
Was there a video you posted on setting up a workout? Such as 400m , 100 m rest x 12 reps etc.
I think that might be in my custom workout video: th-cam.com/video/Pkgmxc2mBOA/w-d-xo.html I haven’t done a stand alone video on it.
Does the App download separately tracked activities from 3rd party apps and put them in the Activities tab? For instance a bike ride recorded with a Wahoo and uploaded to Strava...
To be honest I'm not sure about that but I doubt it, unless the device is compatible with a Garmin device like HR strap in that case it would. Does Wahoo connect to a Garmin device?
@@chrisguess it doesn't, but what I'm looking for is for it to download from a 3rd Party _that both can connect to._ Funnily enough my otherwise rubbish Fitbit downloads all my Wahoo-tracked bike rides from Strava and displays them in the activity log in the Fitbit app.. that's what I want - but with a less rubbish watch, like a Coros. If I get a Coros but all my activities are scattered across different apps/services that's rubbish too IMO...
Excellent, just the video I was looking for. Perhaps I've just been a bit dumb, but so far I've been less than impressed by coros's user guides. I'm beginning to wish I'd opted for the simpler garmin 55. As Clint Eastwood would say "a man's gotta know his limitations".
Glad to be able to fill in the gaps. Remember just because it can do it doesn’t mean you have to! 😭
Can one use Coros pace 2 for walking? I know in the workout modes is not available, but wondering if there is a work around? Thank you.
You could use GPS Cardio and it also tracks your steps
Good stuff!!! Nice App review. Just I only missed with phone device you are using coros App
Thanks.
I was/ am using an iPhone XS/12 mini.
@@chrisguess thanks indeed to clarify that. Your review at least help to figure out somehow what's going on at app level inside of GPS watch ecosystem which in other TH-cam review is not covered. Thanks 🙏🙏
Do you have to pay for this app or is it free
The app is free
Extremely helpful!! Thank-you.
You're welcome!
Very helpful
Thanks
Great video! Thanks. Can you find your PBs for certain distances anywhere? And of course: Merry Christmas!
Thanks, yes you can under your profile in stats, you can see 1K, 1M, 5K, 10K, Half Marathon and Farthest. Or at least that's what I get, I assume Marathon distance will be added when I eventually am able to complete the marathon I was supposed to run in May 2020!
@@chrisguess thanks for the reply. Under profile i see workout programs, training programs, navigation etc and in profile tab, i only see profile photo, username, description, bodyweight/gender/height/ etc... I don`t know where to find the PBs, but i`ll keep looking. Thanks again.
Great video Chris, Thank you!
Thanks
esta aplicacion existe para ordenador?
it it possible to see weekly avergage version of the "today" tab?
Yes, go to ‘edit my day’ and toggle ‘last 7 days statistics’
Thank you for the reply! But where is the "edit my day" button?
At the very bottom of the my day tab.
Great video Chris! I am either going to buy the Coros Icebreaker or the Garmin Fenix 6. Its a toss up for me right now!
Thanks.
Tough choice...
nice job Thanks!
Thanks
does pace 2 can give us vo2 max info?
Yes it does.