New Watch!

I finally got a new Heart Rate Monitor.  After putting it off all summer and combing through product reviews and online sites, I finally go one.  I went with the Garmin 405, the big selling points for me were the all-in-one GPS and the great reviews the GPS system got.  Apparently it is good for running on trails and under trees without losing signal.  Both of these are big selling points for me because I'm going to be doing a lot more trail races and not having to strap an additional arm band on is great, not to mention the majority of the setting are controlled but the Touch Bezel, which is similar to the ipod touch wheel.  It definitely is bigger than your normal watch quite a bit bigger than the Polar FT80 that I had an lost.  But functionality over fashion any day in the running community.  

I'm even considering getting up tomorrow morning and going for a run just to try it out.  I needed to charge it today, otherwise I would have done use it today.  By the way I went for about 8 miles total with 2 set of 3 miles at a 6 minute mile pace.  I had to try and squeeze some speed work in for my 25K this weekend.  

New Heart Rate Monitor!!!

Well, even though I have been using it for about a week and a half.  I'm finally going to post about it now.  I got my new heart rate monitor, I finally broke down and bought one and I absolutely love it.  I went with the Polar FT80 with the GPS sensor and it is great.  It is probably more than I needed but it make tracking your workouts soooo much easier.  

It also looks pretty good, if there was a running watch that had any bling to it this would have to be the closest one.  It is very sleek and fits well, I don't really even notice it while running and I usually don't wear a watch.  The GPS sensor is great it tells you your distance and speed and have a really nice syncing system that records all your workouts and uploads them to your personal profile.  All you do is set the watch on the docking station and it uploads automatically.  

It also give you a lot of great data on your workout, (heart rate zones, distance avg. speed ect.)  anyways I would definitely recommend this watch for any somewhat serious runner, biker, or ect. the only thing is that it is expensive, $425 for the heart rate monitor and GPS sensor, so you have to be somewhat serious.