Skippers target was amateurs using it, not the likes of you, basically “dave” buying a kit because Alan Couzens says everyone should do it all the time.
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Performance wise? Not really. I’ve had most of my best TT results and shorter running races using a Timex Ironman.
Been invaluable in ultras though, for distance, time to cut offs and navigation and having a watch that has does not need charging, even after 40hrs GPS takes a lot of headaches away for the long races.
I do use Av Lap Pace a lot though when running harder.
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I used to know the mile point from my home in any direction, so I could check my pace at the start of any run.
Had a list of standard routes that I did pretty much on rotation, that I had measured on a map with string…
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AtoZ and a bit of string was my go to up until GPS. Id rarely even strictly time anything; quick glance at the clock on way out.
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You would hate coming out with me. I’m a bit OCD with things being put away and my newly acquired trait of cleaning the car but I couldn’t give two hoots about ‘rounding up’ or anything like that.
The ride or run stops, where it stops. The times where I’ve posted a nice neat number from my Garmin is where I’ve stopped it there ahead of the finish of the run ( I usually jog or walk back).
Same with elevation, the number is what the number is.
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Exactly that. If you have the expertise available then what he said isn’t relevant. For most anateurs, he is probably right.
I might bump him to him this weekend? Maybe jump on his feet and do a 75 min swim 
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It’s not that i have to plan the route per se but the not knowing how far it was that bugs me. I am not one who is constantly checking pace or hr. Just that at the end of it I want to know how far it was and how long it took.
I accidentally resumed a ride recently as I didn’t hear the auto pause. Still bugs the shit out of me when I look at that ride. How long was I stopped for? When I have time I will downlaod the file and figure it out.
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He should have tested his lactic acids and bought a Zen8 and some Form goggles 
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Swimsmooth
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Joe’s endless pool.
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Pissed his neighbours off at the time though
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The argument stories it generated were worth the £50k
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Kickboard for me.
Rarely kick in a tri swim.
I like my power meter. As I can go all day at 200W if I’m not surging.
Like my watch as it tells the time. Temperature. Acts as a bike head unit back up. Gives me a HR as I hate straps and no longer need to know to the nth degree.
Apple Watch was garbage. Much like my Samsung phone. Tried them both. Not for me.
Nike super shoes? Brilliant. Comfy and fast.
Cost? Meh. I bought a pair of OnCloudsurfer Trail for walking the dog in.
Buy a pair of Nike supers and five pairs of training shoes to rotate. The choice ain’t binary.
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Hard to call it overrated when no one is calling for people to use them, and none of you feckers swim anyway…!
I’d say the pull buoy gets too much attention.
And the tri bike.
Both useful, but overrated.
I’m going there with electrolytes. As I said five years ago or summat, cramps are over use injuries.
Salt is for neurodegenerative disease induced cramps.
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^ This might be the best point you’ve made this year… whats a kickboard? What is swimming… wait…, its coming to me… Swimming = almost downing… I know what that is, last Wednesday in Torbay was my last experience.
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Pfft.
Earlier in the year had 5 or 6 weeks off swimming.
First 100 back was 1:29.
Overrated, innit.
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10year old girl level then, for back
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Not wrong!
But still faster than anyone else in the pool. And most of a local triathlon field!
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he should fill his time more productively…the point was that you still get meaningful data, whether the operator can use that data or not…
i do watch one guy who measures his training daily if not session by session using his…
there isn’t a swimming pool in this land that hasn’t got enough kickboards to refloat the titanic…
in as much as in that moment there might be insufficient capacity to continue…but that doesn’t really constitute ‘over use’