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Polar Stride Sensor Bluetooth Smart
Polar Stride Sensor Bluetooth Smart
Our Price: $79.99
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Our Favorite 3 Features From Testing

  • The new rubber clip is super secure and stable compared to previous versions.

  • The foot pod has user changeable batteries and is easy to calibrate.

  • It gets accurate speed, distance and cadence, especially on flat to rolling terrain.

  • Works with any Bluetooth Smart compatible device and the Polar Beat app.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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?.
Suunto Quest GPS
Suunto Quest GPS Watch
Our Price: $289.00

Our Favorite 4 Features From Testing

  • Offers real time training intensity and speed guidance based on your training program.

  • Speed graphs in Movescount.com.

  • Customizable display in Movescount to change watch display to organize data the way you want to see it.

  • Stopwatch, interval timer and lap training functions.
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.
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.
   
 

Modern Running Watches Combine Heart Rate Monitors With Distance Measurement With GPS Or Accelerometers

Today's running watches most often combine heart rate monitors with GPS watch technology or make use of accelerometers in foot pods to measure speed and distance. These are key developments for the running watch because it is the correlation between pace and heart rate that is most critical for any runner to fully understand.

What we are looking for is the ideal pace given the distance boiled down into minutes per mile. Ideally this pace will keep you beneath your anaerobic threshold in a functionally operational zone where it is sustainable. Start too fast and you risk oxygen debt and lactic acid build up.

The GPS watch is beginning to become a favored tool by many runners, although some of the more advanced accelerometer-based, or foot pod, watches like the Polar RS800sd and the Suunto t6d are among the finest running watches we have tested. Thus there are two categories of running watch - GPS watches and the accelerometer type watches.

GPS WATCHES EVALUATED

Garmin has the lead at this point in GPS watch technology at this point with the new Garmin Forerunner 410 and the Garmin 310XT, although Timex recently introduced the new Timex Ironman Global Trainer which is a close surrogate to the Garmin 310XT. All three of these watches feature real-time pacing data, heart rate, speed and distance in 1/100th of a mile. Custom interval training and vibratory, as well as audible, alerts are the standard with the Garmin 310XT and the Timex Ironman Global Trainer. The Garmin Forerunner 410 only features audible alerts but has all the other features.

With the advent of improvements in the GPS SIRF 3 and SIRF 4 chip set technology reception is rarely and issue anymore. What most runners seem to like about GPS watches is that you have one single accessory in the watch itself with no added components and you get all of your data.

The downside to GPS is perhaps battery life, which runs about 13 to 14 hours in the Forerunner 310XT and Timex Global Trainer, while the Garmin Forerunner 110 lasts about 8 hours. For most daily training and even marathons this type of battery life is more than adequate. For long course triathletes and ultra-marathon runners you will definitely want to stick with the 310XT and Global Trainer.

There is a learning curve to these more advanced GPS watches but it pays off with an incredible array of data that can truly help you advance your performance.

For those wanting speed, distance and heart rate in a much easier to use package then consider the Garmin Forerunner 210 and the Garmin Forerunner 110. These watches are extremely simple to operate, create great maps and good basic data with simplicity being the key watch word. The Forerunner 110 and the Forerunner 210 do not contain the Virtual Partner real-time pacing feature so really serious, competitive runners may want to stick with the more advanced models.

ACCELEROMETER WATCHES ASSESSED

The absolute best in the class of accelerometer based running watches are the Suunto t6d and the Polar RS800sd. These devices deliver accurate speed, distance, heart rate and pacing information. Both come with light weight foot pods (between 30 and 50 grams, that typically are placed in the shoelaces of your running shoes.

The Polar RS800sd features the S3 stride sensor foot pod which goes further than just measuring speed and distance and looks at turnover and other stride components to give advice on stride improvement. With its barometric altimeter, the RS800sd measures vertical rise and run along with speed, distance, calories, multiple heart rate zones, and an enormous array of features. You can further track and measure the effectiveness of your training by wirelessly downloading your workouts to Polar professional training software, which comes on a CD-ROM with the watch.

The Suunto t6d has all of the features you'd expect from a great running watch and one unique metric called post exercice oxygen consumption or EPOC.

If you are looking to purchase a great running watch that will help you get the job done just call the experts here at the Heart Rate Watch Company at 866-586-7129.







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