It's rare that we experience a watch getting so many new features continuously as is the case with the Coros watches. Coros regularly updates their watches, increasing value for the users – especially since they launched EVOLAB in 2021.
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Coros Map Function
I have personally tested the Coros Pace watches. Here, there is a navigation function on the watch. If you buy an expensive GPS watch, you can gradually be sure that there is a GPS function on the watch, but for a relatively cheap watch, it's not something you often see. The navigation function in the Pace watches is in what we call the "breadcrumb" format. This means that you do not have a topographic map on the watch, but instead, there is just a white line drawn on a black screen, where your location is also shown. It's not the most luxurious, but it works just fine.
Coros Explore
Explore leans a bit towards the map function. It's a really simple tool in the app, where you can easily and comfortably draw a route and quickly transfer it to your watch, so you're sure you're going to run exactly the way you've intended. Really smart and easy. I have not yet seen others who have had such an easy approach to creating routes for a GPS watch.
Coros Fitness Test
The Fitness test allows you to perform a test that calculates your current running form. "Yeah yeah", you might think. "I can also just run 5km as fast as I can, then I also know what form I'm in". What Coros smartly does with their Fitness Test is that it decodes how you run in your different zones, so you can see if you should, for example, train more endurance, VO2max, pace, or sprint training. So, you get a really good insight into your immediate training condition – and I actually think it's quite accurate. I had just run a half marathon 11 days before I took the test, and I have previously had several zone tests done with oxygen uptake equipment. Coros Fitness Test was really close to my half marathon time and also matched quite well with the tests I had done before. So, if you want a greater insight into your training condition, the Fitness Test is definitely worth trying.
Coros EvoLab 2.0
EvoLab 2.0 is a kind of "training hub". This is where your Coros watch analyzes all your training data and gives you advice on recovery, graphs of progress in training, and so on. I am particularly pleased with the graph that compiles my "training status". Here, I get an easy, quick, and relatively precise overview of my base fitness, load impact, and intensity trend. In this way, the watch helps me find the right intensity in my training, so I do not train either too little or too much but hit the point where I train as effectively as possible.
Did you become more curious?
Take a look at our walk-through of the Coros watches here:
