My first GPS-enabled watch was the New Balance Runner 1K2. Like other early-model GPS watches, the Runner 1K2 took a long time to find a signal, especially on cloudy days, and it couldn’t sync with a smartphone or a third-party website to store and track run data. About five years later, New Balance is back with the $299 RunIQ watch, a fitness-centric Android Wear smartwatch that boasts GPS, smartphone notifications and a heart-rate monitor.
But newer isn’t always better. My old reliable 1K2 watch displayed distance, pace and elapsed time in real time as I ran, it stored data for up to 30 runs at a time and its battery lasted days between charges. The RunIQ doesn’t do any of those things, which means you should check out other GPS running watches on our best-picks list.
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