GPS running watches allow runners to use the GPS satellite network to accurately measure speed, distance, pace and elevation. Benefits of these abilities allows athletes to pace their workouts and to perform advanced training sessions based on distance travelled rather than time. By specifying the sessions based on distance, athletes can focus on running until they are alerted by their watches that they have covered their target distance. This is normally only possible on a measure Olympic athletics track, but with a GPS watch, it is possible to perform distance based repetitions over virtually any terrain.
The most prominent watch maker on the market is Garmin, who have pioneered the advancement of GPS watches since they entered the market about a decade ago. Garmin designed their own GPS watch from scratch, while other manufacturers mostly added GPS to the features of their existing sports watches. Mostly these watch manufacturers require you to wear a GPS device externally on the body which transmits GPS information to the wrist watch wirelessly in the same manner as a heart rate monitor device. Up until now, the main contender in the GPS watch market was the Garmin Forerunner GPS, which is miles ahead of its nearest competitors in the GPS watch maker, which has made it a popular hit amongst members of the athletic community. This might soon be about to change however, now that Timex have created their first one-piece Timex Ironman GPS Watch, the Timex Global Trainer watch.
The Timex Global Trainer watch looks like the classic Timex Ironman watch only bigger as it must mount the large GPS receiver in the case of the watch. The blend of the classic Timex Ironman watch features that have proven themselves over two decades of rigorous testing by athletes all over the world who endorse them. The speed and distance capabilities of a GPS sports watch, make the Timex Global Trainer an attractive prospect for many athletes. The Global Trainer watch has a digital data display that is similar to the Garmin Forerunner 305 watch, it has a wide-screen with the ability to display up to four data fields simultaneously. The Timex running GPS watch has advanced sports features as well as multi sports ability and ANT+ capabilities that allow it to communicate with third-party products such as bike cadence devices that can measure pedler rate and similar details specific to cycling. Overall, the Timex Global Trainer GPS running watch is an exciting new entry into the Garmin dominated world of running GPS watches.