COROS - PACE 3 GPS Sport Watch - White - (2023)

COROS PACE 3 GPS Sport Watch is an impressive addition to the fitness technology market, catering to athletes and fitness enthusiasts who demand precision and reliability. The PACE 3 sports is lightweight design that is both stylish and comfortable to wear for extended periods. Its silicone band is durable and adjustable, ensuring a secure fit during intense activities. The watch face is bright and easily readable in various lighting conditions, thanks to its high-resolution display. One of the standout features of the PACE 3 is its advanced GPS accuracy. Whether running through urban environments or remote trails, the watch consistently provides precise tracking, making it ideal for a variety of outdoor activities. Additionally, the PACE 3 supports multiple satellite systems, including GPS, GLONASS, and Galileo, enhancing its reliability in challenging terrains. The PACE 3 is equipped with a comprehensive suite of fitness and health tracking features. These include heart rate monitoring, sleep tracking, and a variety of sport modes tailored to different activities such as running, cycling, swimming, and more. The heart rate monitor is particularly accurate, providing real-time data that can be crucial for optimizing training sessions. Battery life is another area where the PACE 3 excels. With regular use, including GPS tracking, the watch can last up to 20 days on a single charge, which is significantly longer than many of its competitors. This extended battery life ensures that you can focus on your training without worrying about frequent recharging. The user interface is intuitive and user-friendly, allowing easy navigation through various settings and features. The COROS app complements the watch perfectly, offering detailed insights and data analysis. The PACE 3 also integrates smoothly with popular third-party fitness apps, ensuring that your training data is always up-to-date and accessible. Overall, the COROS PACE 3 GPS Sport Watch is a top-tier choice for anyone looking to enhance their training regimen. Its combination of precise GPS tracking, comprehensive fitness features, long battery life, and user-friendly interface makes it a valuable companion for athletes of all levels.

Great purchase. Wanted something to track workouts and then some extras as well - sleep, heart rate, recovery, etc. Great battery life and light weight on the wrist. Very happy with the purchase!

Go this watch in January and it’s been nothing but amazing. I’ve ran a marathon and a half marathon with it. Would recommend to anyone.

This is a wonderful training tool for runners. The value/price relation is the best in the market, having plenty of functions. The pressicion is great. It comes with a whole training platform that helps you set and reach your goals. It has an active community and the bran usually adds user requested features. Totally recommended.

This is a very good entry level watch, if you are looking for a fitness (and perhaps ideally, running-biking-swimming) watch with some smartwatch features. If you want the functionality of a smartwatch with some fitness features, you probably want something else. Pros: Strong battery life Strong GPS capabilities Good app and stat keeping Competitive programming for data/training with other watches in this basic category Extremely lightweight and comfortable Reasonably easy to use with combination of touchscreen and buttons Fast charging Should be able to connect and control camera (go pro) from watch if that’s something you like. Maybe not great: MIP screen (some people will like this, others might really dislike it) Sporty look—all plastic/fiber and not super sleek; watch faces are somewhat limited Not able to stream music; ability to download mp3s directly to watch with enough storage for plenty of songs. Step counting seems a bit erratic Course programming possible, but no onboard maps (not typical at this price point) If you’ve had a smart sport-focused watch before, the Pace 3 is probably going to be easy to operate and you’ll likely be fairly familiar in its main capabilities. It’s built for tracking data and training, and it’s not a sleek bells and whistles smartwatch. It can connect to your phone and pipe notifications and alerts to your wrist, which is nice if you’re wanting that, but you can also leave these settings off. So if you want a watch that won’t interrupt you every 5 seconds, this watch is happy to be that. It won’t listen to you and take commands, as some of the newer smartwatches are doing these days. In limited time testing it, I’ve compared it with another watch, also a sport-focused one, though in a much more expensive bracket. I found that the Pace 3 was reliably in tune with the fancier watch when it came to most of the data collected that was in common. One general note: pretty much all wearables I know of interface with apps for full functionality. That means, potentially, some big assumptions about signing over your privacy and personal data to the company behind your watch. It’s probably worth thinking about if you’re ok with that. If you’re already tracking your runs (or other activity) with a third-party site like Strava, you’re already negotiating this a bit (and yes, the Pace 3 will send data to Strava or other third parties). It’s just something to think about no matter what watch you might ultimately buy. Now…back to functions… So for your basic functions of GPS tracking, heart rate monitoring, pacing, etc. this watch will track most metrics. It does have some features like projected best times (it seems somewhat optimistic about my abilities), “running fitness” (I guess this is telling you how fit you are compared to how fit you might be?), training load, hrv (and sleeping hrv), and a variety of coaching programs that can be loaded from the Coros website. It also tracks you “training status,” estimating if you are increasing or decreasing your fitness, and perhaps showing which workouts are allegedly the most productive. You’ll find these kinds of features on other watches, but, I’ll just say that it seems less common to get this much data and active tracking at this price point (at least in my experience). I didn’t try the training and workout programs in the limited time I’ve had with the watch, though I did attempt to mess with them and at least get one loaded on the watch. It seems a little convoluted as a process. Once on, it seems like they will work fine, but there’s a learning curve to figuring the integration of watch, app, website. I’ve included a screen shot in this review from a threshold run session (warm up, threshold run for 16 minutes, recovery, second threshold run, slower 10 minute cool down). This should give an idea of some of the data that will show from a session. (Also, it shows how sensitive the watch is. I was running with my dogs, and they produce some erratic data because of a bunch of stopping and starting for sniffs and other activities, which the Pace 3 tracked accurately, and that’s why my graphs look so weird). The Pace 3 tracked distance, HR, pace, etc. very close to my other watch. I have no idea which is more accurate, really, but that they were very close seems to indicate either that the Pace 3 is not losing a step. I used it on the treadmill too, and it tracked pretty well. The Pace 3 also has very strong battery life and should keep up well between charges. With GPS usage and indoor activities, I found the Pace 3 to be a strong performer, though this will definitely drain it faster. Expect to charge in a week or so, a little sooner if you use GPS + music. A caveat on battery life: partly these strong results come from a few choices the watch makes, like to record HR data every ten minutes instead of every minute. You can change this, but it will use more battery. It has an MIP screen. I am perfectly fine with the MIP screen, but it is not as spiffy and adaptable as an AMOLED screen as on many of the Pace 3 competitors, and especially on those more smartwatch-first wearables. My biggest issues with the watch are the readability of the main watch faces, which I don’t find all that great, and some fiddly operation. It has operation via touchscreen plus two buttons. The main top button also can twist, allowing scrolling action without using the touchscreen. That’s a big plus, but the operation feels a bit twitchy. The watch is also super lightweight (which is awesome, I really liked that), but it seems vaguely cheap. This is unfair, because a lot of watches in this category that are looking to be light are also on the plasticky side of things. The other big question mark here is the music player. I am old and I’m perfectly happy to load mp3s onto a watch rather than use streaming services. It’s gotten more difficult to do that anyway, in the last year, since Amazon changed their prime music policies to not allow downloads anyway. Regardless, if you’re my generation, it’s not big deal to load up a bunch of workout tunes from an mp3 file using the USB connection on the watch. However, once the music is loaded, I could find no way to really organize it. It seems like there is NO navigation or playlist capability. It doesn’t seem to even know about folders. So, organization of music seems like a weak spot. That said, I didn’t have any problem connecting Bluetooth earbuds or listening to the music installed. For the price, I think you get a lot with this watch if you are looking for sport features and especially if you’re a runner, biker, or swimmer looking to get fitter or training for an event. If you want a pretty screen, a sleeker look, and more smart features, look to something else.