The app aims to remove doubt when it comes to the pacing information displayed on your Garmin. That was good timing, as I’d be running the Santa Clause 10K race the next day. It’s just a single hobbyist developer to who created his app in his spare time, and also happened to come to the DCR Open House two weekends ago. It’s free and available on Garmin Connect IQ for virtually every Garmin device that supports Connect IQ. That’s where the ‘Race Screen’ app comes in (technically it’s a data field). A few seconds here or there add up after 26 miles. While it might seem straightforward, in reality there are a lot of nuances that truly do matter when you’re chasing that elusive PR.
As you might remember, I once wrote an entire article on how to use GPS watches to pace races. Which is a roundabout way of talking about a nifty little app that I tried out last weekend that’s used for pacing a race, on Garmin Connect IQ.
Whereas for a 3rd party developer this was straightforward and filled a niche. This type of functionality wasn’t super complex but rather simply out of scope of what Suunto would do themselves. When Suunto first introduced watch based apps four years ago this month, one of the initial examples that I tried was an app that would give you estimated power numbers based on trainer speed (for certain trainers). Be it Connect IQ for Garmin devices, the App Store for Apple Devices, or the Windows Store for Windows devices – all allow 3rd parties to fill a need.
That’s true of phones, computers, and now even watches. One of the primary benefits of apps on any platform is to extend the functionality of a device to do something that the manufacturer didn’t otherwise include.
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