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[Grog]

Grog...as always the case with Timex and most mechanical toys, I cannot figure out how to do the lap thing. It sounds like a very good suggestion when I can get it figured out. I am such a spazz with this kind of stuff. lol

Great purchase! (Once you figure it out) you won't regret it!

It can be a bit confusing, here's my best try at explaining it.

Let's say you're on a course with mile markers and you want to track your mile times:

1) Press the MODE button (bottom left) once to get into CHRONO mode.
2) Press START/SPLIT (centre) to start the chronometer; digits are rolling past on the display. START MOVING IT!!
3) When you see the first mile marker, press the START/SPLIT button again. It will freeze the display for 10 seconds (so you can look at it I guess), but it keeps counting for you. After 10 seconds, it will start rolling again.
4) Unless you've changed the setting, your watch will now be displaying your total time in big digits and the time-since-you-hit-the-split-button (aka lap time) in small digits on top.
5) Keep hitting START/SPLIT at every mile marker.
6) When you are finished, press STOP/RESET (bottom right).
7) To review your mile times, press SET/RECALL (top left). It will show a + sign by the START/SPLIT button and a - sign near the STOP/RESET. Pressing the + and - will scroll you through your mile times. There is also a DONE by the SET/RECALL button that you press when you're done recalling your mile times.
8) Once you're done, pressing the MODE button will bring you back to the time display. At any time, when the chronometer is running, you can hit MODE to go back to the time display. The chronometer will keep running anyway.

I prefer to have my watch displaying the lap time in big digits because that's what I want to see when I quickly glance at my watch. If you want to do that, you just have to get in CHRONO mode (as by step 1 above)
then press SET/RECALL. This will allow you to FORMAT. You just have to press the + button to swap SPL (split) and LAP times between top and bottom. In this case, you'd want LAP to be at the bottom. When you're done... press DONE (aka SET/RECALL).

If you use the watch for intervals, then you'll have to glance at your watch to know how far you are into a "lap". Example:
1) Get in chrono mode, hit START, start walking to warm up;
2) When the watch indicates you've been walking for 10 minutes, hit START/SPLIT and start jogging.
3) If your plan is to jog for 3, then walk 2, jog until 3 minutes have passed, hit the START/SPLIT button as you start walking (it will freeze the display for 10 seconds) and hit it again - and start jogging - after 2 minutes. And so on.

It's not like a count-down timer that goes beeping when your run-time has elapsed, but I've found it good enough for my uses...

Enjoy! I find them to be good looking watches, too.