Your experience is like mine. I’ve always had a problem with cadence lock affecting heart rate displayed on my Garmin watches. It’s the same on my latest Garmin, the 265. Really annoying because these sudden spikes skew all my performance stats. I had hoped an arm band HRM would solve the problem and chose the COROS because it got good reviews. Sadly, I am still getting HR spikes - often way above my max HR - in around half my runs. The spikes start within a couple of minutes of starting a run and often last a long time before the Garmin Connect graph shows my heart rate dropping off a cliff back to where it should be. If I take off the watch and/or arm band, wait a while and put them back on, my heart rate displayed generally goes back to normal. I’ve manually turned off watch heart rate rather than have it switch to COROS automatically but to no avail. I can see the watch HRM is off because there are no green lights on the back but the displayed heart rate is way too high. Sometimes the COROS works perfectly but I can’t rely on it in a race. I’ve just ordered a Polar Verity Sense in the hope it may work better for me.
@@peterjohnson653 That's interesting Peter. One of the frustrating things for me is that it only happens occasionally and unpredictability. I can go for weeks thinking that the arm strap is accurate then one day it will be obviously wrong, but only for part of the run. I'd be interested to hear if the Polar Verity is any more reliable. Thanks for commenting.
Cheers, Dave. I’d been searching for hours to see if anyone had experienced the same issues with the COROS HRM. It must be something odd with me as my wife uses all my old Garmins with no problem. Such a disappointment that my arm band HRM does the same. The Verity Sense is on Prime Day deal today so I’m taking a punt. Will comment here once I’ve tried it. Ps I’m a one-time fell runner too, a member of Mercia, but now stick to road and trail races at the age of 71 due to creaky knees and hallux limitus .
Apologies for banging on, but I’ve just spotted we were both in the fell relay champs at Lomond Hills in 2010. My Mercia V50 team got silver medal less than a minute behind your Dark Peak colleagues!
Your experience is like mine. I’ve always had a problem with cadence lock affecting heart rate displayed on my Garmin watches. It’s the same on my latest Garmin, the 265. Really annoying because these sudden spikes skew all my performance stats. I had hoped an arm band HRM would solve the problem and chose the COROS because it got good reviews. Sadly, I am still getting HR spikes - often way above my max HR - in around half my runs. The spikes start within a couple of minutes of starting a run and often last a long time before the Garmin Connect graph shows my heart rate dropping off a cliff back to where it should be. If I take off the watch and/or arm band, wait a while and put them back on, my heart rate displayed generally goes back to normal. I’ve manually turned off watch heart rate rather than have it switch to COROS automatically but to no avail. I can see the watch HRM is off because there are no green lights on the back but the displayed heart rate is way too high. Sometimes the COROS works perfectly but I can’t rely on it in a race. I’ve just ordered a Polar Verity Sense in the hope it may work better for me.
@@peterjohnson653 That's interesting Peter.
One of the frustrating things for me is that it only happens occasionally and unpredictability. I can go for weeks thinking that the arm strap is accurate then one day it will be obviously wrong, but only for part of the run.
I'd be interested to hear if the Polar Verity is any more reliable.
Thanks for commenting.
Cheers, Dave. I’d been searching for hours to see if anyone had experienced the same issues with the COROS HRM. It must be something odd with me as my wife uses all my old Garmins with no problem. Such a disappointment that my arm band HRM does the same. The Verity Sense is on Prime Day deal today so I’m taking a punt. Will comment here once I’ve tried it. Ps I’m a one-time fell runner too, a member of Mercia, but now stick to road and trail races at the age of 71 due to creaky knees and hallux limitus .
@@peterjohnson653 Cheers Peter. Yes let me know how you get on with the Polar.
Great that you haven't given up on the running - good man!
Apologies for banging on, but I’ve just spotted we were both in the fell relay champs at Lomond Hills in 2010. My Mercia V50 team got silver medal less than a minute behind your Dark Peak colleagues!
@@peterjohnson653 I used to really enjoy the relays. Dark Peak always had some good battles with Mercia!