![]() ![]() It’s a lot cheaper than the Fenix 6 Pro while still offering a range of useful features that will help your running. Runners on a budget who are moving more into off-road running and perhaps lining up an ultramarathon should definitely check out the Grit. If you don’t need the longer battery life and fuelling features on the Grit X, then the cheaper watches will suffice. It and the Coros Apex also offer breadcrumb navigation, though without turn-by-turn directions. The Forerunner 245 Music has all the key features you need if you’re a road runner taking on races up to marathon distance and includes music storage as well. ![]() Whether it’s worth upgrading from a £300 watch depends on the kind of athlete you are. The Grit X is reasonably priced at £379: it offers a little more than you’ll find on watches at the £250-£300 mark like the Garmin Forerunner 245 and Coros Apex, while it doesn’t come close to challenging the supremacy of the Garmin Fenix 6 Pro range and Forerunner 945 at the premium, £500-plus end of the market. The touchscreen is often unresponsive and it’s unnecessary given that the Grit X has five buttons for navigating its menus. Polar has not put its Recovery Pro feature on the Grit, reserving it for the Vantage V watch. You have to pay to use the Komoot app when creating routes outside your home area. I also had to do a factory reset to stop the battery draining too fast, a problem the Grit X arrived with. The software is a little buggy at times and syncing activities sometimes required me to plug the Grit X into a computer, because the app wouldn’t connect with my watch. Sleep tracking went completely off the rails for me – for the final two weeks of using the watch, either I didn’t get any info on my sleep or it was inaccurate. The new HillSplitter feature is basic and not all that useful in its current form, especially when compared with the excellent ClimbPro on Garmin’s top-end watches. While it has its problems, it’s still a step up from the basic pointer-and-line navigation you get on cheaper watches, The Grit X includes a Komoot app so you can set routes and follow turn-by-turn directions. The Grit X gauges running power, still a fairly niche stat but another way to judge your effort levels, without having to connect to a footpod, making it available to more runners. Polar’s sleep tracking is ahead of most other brands with detailed insights on your rest that feed into exercise recommendations the following day, although I had some problems with the accuracy. The FuelWise feature is genuinely useful to help you plan and stick to nutrition strategies for exercise that lasts longer than 90 minutes. You get an excellent 40 hours of GPS battery life, and the Grit X will last over a week between charges even if you’re exercising often. The sports tracking on the Grit X is largely accurate and detailed, with every type of exercise I could think of covered. ![]()
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