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Suunto Ambit 2
Suunto Ambit 2 (All Models)
Our Price: $400.00

Our Favorite 4 Features From Testing

  • More memory for lots of apps and firmware updates.

  • The 2S offers swim features like laps and strokes.

  • The 2S offers power output for cycling with ANT+ power meters.

  • The thinner profile for the 2S makes it the ideal triathlon watch.
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Polar RC3
Polar RC3 (All Models)
Our Price: $229.95

Polar RC3

The Lightest Fully Integrated GPS watch on the market! Orange Model Not Available Until Late May 2013

The GPS watch is for runners, cyclists and outdoor athletes seeking to improve fitness and performance.
Garmin fenix
Garmin fenix
Our Price: $399.99

Our Favorite 4 Features From Testing

  • First ABC watch offering GPS handheld maps this watch could save your life in bad weather, vertigo, or when you get "turned around" in the back country.

  • Rugged and built to endure rough conditions with a shock-resistant, steel-reinforced housing, scratch-resistant mineral crystal and tough wristband.

  • GPS lets you create routes, record up to 1,000 way points; TracBack function guides you back along a previously recorded track.

  • Barometric altimeter provides accurate elevation information to keep track of ascent, descent and weather.
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Garmin Forerunner 610
Garmin Forerunner 610 (All Models)
Our Price: $349.99

FREE Foot Pod - While They Last!

Our Favorite 4 Features From Testing

  • The touch screen navigation is super fast and intuitive after a few sessions and beats button hands down.

  • The ability to totally customize all screens and switch quickly between sports were well liked.

  • The fact that it makes a great everyday watch and isn't so big like the triathlon watches.

  • Quick satellite acquisition, easy set-up and the new Training Benefit feature made this a tester favorite.
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Garmin Forerunner 910XT GPS Watch
Garmin Forerunner 910XT (All Models)
Our Price: $299.99

SAVE $100 ON SALE NOW - Our Favorite 4 Features From Testing

  • Improve Swim efficiency - computes your swim efficiency (SWOLF) score, which is determined by adding the number of strokes taken per lap to the time.

  • GPS accurate speed, distance, pace and time for running, biking and all outdoor sports.

  • New barometric altimeter receives accurate on board altitude for running, cycling, as well as feet climbed and descended.

  • Training Effect tracks the intensity and helps you adjust future workouts based upon previous training history.
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Garmin Forerunner 210
Garmin Forerunner 210 (All Models)
Our Price: $199.99

Our Favorite 4 Features From Testing

  • Both Real-time pacing for intervals and average pace.

  • The soft chest strap (optional) is nicer than the Garmin 110 strap - more comfortable and lighter.

  • The laps feature records each mile time and creates great maps of your runs with comparable time segments.

  • Ryan Hall used this watch when he ran a 2:04 marathon at Boston - need we say more?.
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garmin forerunner 10
Garmin Forerunner 10 (Not A Heart Rate Monitor)
Our Price: $129.99

Our Favorite 4 Features From Testing

  • Super easy to use and set up and it gets distance and pacing data in real-time.

  • The Virtual pacing feature really keeps you on task.

  • Super light weight and much thinner profile than most GPS watches.

  • Styles, fun colors and sheer simplicity along with calorie data.
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Polar RCX3 GPS Men
Polar RCX3 Men All Models
Our Price: $169.98

Our Favorite 4 Features From Testing

  • Polar RCX3 offers a quick change interface for moving from sport to sport.

  • 5 custom heart rate zones for each sport.

  • WIND technology avoids magnetic interference.

  • RCX3 works with G5 GPS sensor, S3+ foot pod and Polar CS WIND speed and cadence sensors.
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Magellan Switch Up
Magellan Switch Up (All Models)
Our Price: $249.99

Our Favorite 4 Features From Testing

  • The way the watch body pops right off the band and right into a bike mount.

  • The overall durability of the unit construction is superior and it gets satelittes super fast.

  • The 16 hour spare battery that can be user installed quickly.

  • The fact that full navigation and exercise features are built in, plus a barometric altimeter.
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magellan switch
Magellan Switch (All Models)
Our Price: $189.99

Our Favorite 4 Features From Testing

  • The way the watch body pops right off the band and right into a bike mount.

  • The overall durability of the unit construction is superior and it gets satellites super fast.

  • The 16 hour spare battery that can be user installed quickly.

  • The fact that full navigation and exercise features are built in.
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Cross-Country Skiing Was The First Testing Grounds For Heart Rate Monitors, Now The Sport Has GPS Watch Technology

Back in the late 1970's Polar handed out the very first heart rate monitors to member of the Norwegian National cross-country ski team and the world of athletic measurement has never been the same since. I saw some of the original Polar's on Norwegian members of the University of Utah ski team when I competed in the NCAA Championships in the early 1980's. Of course, they have become much more sophisticated today.

Today's cross-country skiers can measure heart rate, speed, distance, and get calories burned with modern GPS watch technology from Suunto, Garmin or Polar heart rate monitors. GPS technology allows you to correlate your pace with your heart rate helping to further define the appropriate pace that keeps you just under your anaerobic threshold.

You can also download and track all of your heart rate, distance and speed data to analyze your incremental fitness improvements throughout the season.

Cross-country skiing is one of the toughest sports going because it test both upper and lower body strength to the limit with aerobic capacity being an absolute key ingredient. Whether you classic ski in parallel tracks or skate ski, there is a GPS watch, as well as heart rate monitors that should fit your needs perfectly.

Our favorite cross-country skiing watches include the Suunto t3d, Garmin 310XT, Garmin Forerunner 110, Polar RS800CX with G3 GPS, and the new Timex Global Trainer. Each GPS watch in this group will deliver great heart rate data, calories, speed, distance and allow you to download your data to a computer for subsequent analysis.

The Garmin 310XT, Garmin Forerunner 110 and the Timex Global Trainer have the GPS built right into the watch itself so there are no external sensors. With the Suunto t3d and the Polar RS800CX there is an external GPS sensor that goes on the upper arm that collect GPS signal.

All of these watches will allow you to set up specific heart rate zones for base building, interval training and offer multiple zones that are user customized. With good data and feedback on many variables you can customize your training by using your own biometric feedback as a gauge.

Cross-country skiing is tough, but getting better just got easier with GPS watches technology.

If you would like help choosing the heart rate monitors or GPS watch that is right for you just call us at the Heart Rate Watch Company toll-free at 866-586-7129.






Heart Rate Watch Company
1087 Stoneridge Dr., Suite 2A
Bozeman, MT 59718
866-586-7129