Coros makes great running watches that are seriously underrated. You'll recall that I ranked the Pace 4 as the best running watch under $250, and I think the Pace Pro (with its larger screen and offline maps) is excellent, too. And while Coros watches do the basics quite well, they also have a surprising number of useful yet often hidden features. Here are 10 of my best tips and tricks for getting the most out of your Coros running watch.
Coros Pace 4 $249.00 at Amazon Get Deal Get Deal $249.00 at AmazonUse the Extender for detailed maps while you’re running
One of these gives more information than the other! Credit: Beth SkwareckiTo use this feature, just open the Coros app on your phone while you’re running. Right at the top of the main screen, you’ll see a card with your current live activity. Tap that card and you’re in what Coros calls the Extender, a tool that lets you view data from the activity and even update some information directly to the watch.
By default, Coros watches will mark a lap for you every mile if you’re not doing a specific workout. This is nice because the watch will show your time and pace for that mile. It’s a pretty standard feature.
Fortunately, a recent update changes that. You can now program automatic laps separately from distance alerts. Here’s how to get the best of both worlds:
Also under the Run (etc.) mode, go to Activity Alert, then Distance Alert, and make sure it is set to ON. You can set a distance here, which you probably want as 1.00 mile.
This way, I’m able to do two loops of a two-mile trail, and end up with two laps, one for each loop, while also getting a reminder every mile of my pace.
Load a route (even if you know where you’re going) to get Hill Alerts
Credit: Beth SkwareckiTo use this feature, though, the watch has to know where you’re going. Create a route from the Explore tab, or download one you created in another app like Strava. Then tap Sync with your watch. I have a library of routes saved for my favorite trails, so using this feature is as simple as choosing a route from the same screen where I start my run. (Instead of hitting Start, just scroll down to Navigation and select the route you’re running.)
But sometimes you miss something you wanted to include, or you otherwise screw up the recording. If you don’t notice this until later, you have two options that each show up a little differently.
Or you can edit it as text from your phone. The original voice note gets transcribed into text, but if you hit the garbage can icon next to the note on your phone, the voice recording disappears and you now just have a text box where you can edit the text (or add to it) as much as you’d like.
Scroll the digital dial to make the lap screen go away
You probably knew you could download a training schedule to the Coros app and thus to your watch. (If you didn’t: Go to the Training Plan Library under settings and see all your options.) But there’s another way to get runs showing up as scheduled: Add them yourself on your calendar on the Coros Training Hub.
Here’s how I used it to create a basic schedule for myself in minutes. Click a day, then hit “Quick Workout” and fill in the essentials. For example: Run, 3 miles, no pace target. Once you’ve created that workout, you can copy and paste it to other days. Right now I’m doing short easy runs on Tuesdays, Thursdays, and Fridays, and a longer run on Sundays. I got a month’s worth of that schedule set up quickly (changing some of the details each week, like making the long run longer) and then I saved the training plan. Once it’s created, I could then drag it to any future date on the calendar, and now I have my runs set out for me.
Find the hidden screens on the Pace 4
This is a simple hack that evaded me for the longest time. If you ever find yourself on a strange screen while you’re running, and don’t know how to get back to the screen you were on, that’s because Coros changed the screen layout. (If I’m remembering right, they changed it twice. Just when I figured out the old way, it stopped working.)
You can think of it as three different columns; scroll up and down within the column of data screens to see all of those variations, or use the action button to move sideways to the next column.
Save photos to specific map areas with the Adventure Journal
Credit: Beth SkwareckiFrom here, you can take a photo, or you can mark a spot as a “pin.” Pins can also have photos and text attached. I don’t normally allow my phone camera to store location information in photos, so when I’m on the trail, this gives me an easy way to make note of where something is. Here’s the weird gravestone in the woods; here’s that trail fork I want to investigate later; and so on.
Waypoints are points on the map that are embedded in the route you’re navigating. They’re not the same as pins, even though they seem like they should be the same thing. (You can convert a pin into a waypoint, though.)
If you plan to run a long trail and rest at certain points along the way—like the aid stations that ultramarathon runners stop at during races—the Lap Details section of your activity will show the time you spent at each waypoint before moving on. With this recent heat wave, I’ve been using my car as a cool-down spot in the middle of longer runs, so I’m looking forward to using waypoints to keep track of this.
Geek out on your training metrics on the phone or web
Credit: Beth Skwarecki/CorosIf you tap on Training Status in the Coros phone app, you’ll see some graphs with not just your status (I’m optimized, great) but also showing how your fitness has changed over time and whether you’re staying in the recommended window for intensity.
What’s more, you can log on to the Training Hub and get even more detailed information. With graphs like the one above, you can view how your fitness has changed next to your workout intensity, VO2max, or any of a number of other metrics. You can see how you’re doing now compared to a few months ago, and how your training has affected things like your lactate threshold. I can see that I’ve been slacking off since getting back from Hyrox, but I’ve also finally started training a little harder and will probably see the benefit of that soon.
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