Recommend a sports watch for running, please

[tulip]

I use a small digital kitchen timer that I hold. The buttons on my Timex Triathlon watch are too small to use accurately for me.

[Blueberry]

Maybe look at a freestyle shark? I'll check the timer on mine later tonight. Like This. My experience has been that they last longer than my timexes did.

ETA: Still have seconds (and hundredths) over 30 minutes. And still seconds over an hour.

[OakLeaf]

After 30 minutes is weird.

Generally I'd just look at how many digits they're capable of displaying. My Garmins display 100ths for the first minute, then seconds for the first hour, then only full minutes after it turns over an hour.

It was kind of annoying yesterday when I was trying to do bridge repeats and it turned over an hour in the middle of one of them - but generally if I'm doing intervals, I program them in ahead of time. At any rate I should've hit my lap timer every one, but I didn't do that either.

If you get a watch that you can program your interval workouts - and I think you can do that with most of the inexpensive ones too - do you still need to display seconds?

[HillSlugger]

Look at the Timex Ironman Sleek, 50 lap watch. Pretty small and you can find them for less than $40. I got mine first for running and later used it as my swim watch. Lasted more than 2 years before I had to change the battery, and is still going after 6 years.