(Image credit: Polar) Polar Grit X review: recovery features You can set reminders to take on water and nutrition specific to your health and weight and the intensity of the work you’re doing. This watch is going to nudge you to rehydrate with a notification, such as ‘drink – take on 10g of carbs’ reducing the chances of you bonking due to being so in the zone that you forget to refuel in longer sessions and races. Watches are trying to ‘coach’ us more, but not just in training, and a really cool extra is the FuelWise Smart Fuelling assistant. Having a compass and altimeter are also handy extras. There’s turn by turn instructions, as well as overview of your session when you finish. It’s a simple swipe on the Komoot setting to connect your accounts, granting you access to routes from other users. To make the most of the route planner you will need to download the Komoot app, then you can use this to transfer a GPX file on to your watch to plan your route. It also ranks you as the watch automatically detects hill segments. This feature gives you a display of distance, elevation and speed while you’re on the move. When you run with another athlete and take on the same vertical but both end up with completely different elevation on Strava, you will know that your stats are right, theirs are wrong. You’re getting much more specific uphill and downhill stats. One is Hill Splitter, and as a hill runner I love this feature. The Polar Grit X has some really nice additional features. (Image credit: Polar) Polar Grit X review: training features Even with all features activated expect 40 hours of tracking – take this up to 100 hours if power save is on. Most important for us outdoor types is battery life, as the more our watches let us explore without having to worry about a charging lead and power output, the happier we are. Nevertheless, the Grit X looks and feels rugged and in theory, when you bash this against a rock, fall off your bike, it’s not going to scratch or break and the design reflects this – it’s simple and robust. One might wonder why multisport watch manufacturers choose this standard to measure their watches' performance against it probably has something to do with the relative flexibility of the non-military application of the standard. The Polar Grit X is made to MIL-STD-810 military level durability – the same standard other outdoor watches are made to such as the Garmin Instinct Solar. Green, Red and Blue textile accessory bands cost even more and the leather option is the most expensive version. You can add on a black, white or green silicon accessory band for a little extra dosh. There are two standard colour options, black and olive-green. Two sizes are on offer, Small and Medium/Large as well as numerous strap options. English, German, French, Italian, Dutch, Norwegian, Spanish, Portuguese, Swedish, Finnish, Danish, Polish, Russian, Turkish, Indonesian, Czech, Japanese, Chinese (simplified)(Image credit: Polar) Polar Grit X review: design.Time and date, alarm with snooze, timer, stopwatch.Magnetometer-based compass (no-GPS needed).Training mode: up to 40h (with full GPS and wrist-based HR tracking) Watch mode: up to 7 days (with continuous activity and wrist-based HR tracking) Power-save modes in training: up to 100h Compatible with all standard Bluetooth Low Energy heart rate sensors, running cadence and power sensors, as well as cycling speed, cadence and power sensors.Tested against military standards (MIL-STD-810G). Temperatures below -10☌ may affect battery life and performance. Sapphire glass lens with anti-fingerprint coatingĬompatible with standard 22 mm quick release watch bands.Īssisted-GNSS for fast fix times supports GPS, GLONASS, Galileo, QZSSĬustom USB cable for charging and data synchronizationįrom -20° to 50☌. Glass fiber reinforced polymer back cover Stainless-steel case (with diamond-like carbon coating on Black DLC version).1.2 inch sunlight-visible, transflective memory-in-pixel (MIP).
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