I’m a fitness editor who reviews some of the best smartwatches on the market for a living. Despite all my testing, for the past decade, I’ve mostly worn an Apple Watch on my wrist every single day — not only because those pesky rings have me hooked, but because the watch is an extension of my iPhone on my wrist, allowing me to check my diary, reply to texts, and listen to music on the move.
Yet when it came to choosing a running watch for my half-marathon yesterday, I reached for the Garmin Forerunner 570 over my Apple Watch Ultra 3 and for one simple reason — it has physical buttons, and the forecast for the run looked horrendous (welcome to February in the U.K.)
