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Last night I decided to go and see how the watch performed on some 400m intervals.
So - 5minute warm up, 8 x 400m at a certain pace with 1 minute HR recovery in between, 5 minute cool down.
5 minute warm up - great, although I was a bit suprised there was no warning 'beep' to tell me that the stage had finished (I have since discovered that you have to have the monitor sounds switched on to get interval beeps).
First interval - set off, changed the display, couldn't figure out how I was going to know when the interval had finished, changed the display a bit more, figured out what I needed to be able to see and what it meant, stopped running, waited for my heart rate to fall, set off on my next interval.
The speed on the wrist unit is really quite slow to react - so you know you are running pretty quickly, and it is still bleating that you are +99 over the limit. then of course, because you are trying to shut it up, you are going to fast, so it starts beeping to tell you that. After about 400m you finally get the pace right and it is time to stop.
Now here is the most irritating thing.
My recovery was set to be any time until my HR fell to 120bpm. Which worked really well. Unfortunately, even though the recovery period has nothing to do with pace - it still beeps like a mad thing because you aren't going at the interval speed any more!!! AAAaaaaargh. Obviously the only way to avoid beep rage in this situation is to turn the sound off - but really, did nobody think about this?
The words 'bolt on' spring to mind.
Still loving it though.
Great graph from the intervals!
Foo Bar - you are probably right about the Mark 2 version. If that is the case, I will be very upset and might well have to make a fuss.
I like making a fuss.
Polar S625X 318.92€
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The Polar S625X is the first Polar that combines the mensurations of speed and career distance with the heart rhythm: it is the first RUNNING COMPUTER of Polar.
Polar S625X this directed to the active corridors, triatletas and duatletas. It includes all the functions of the S610i and also:
- It measures the speed and distance, with the sensor of Polar speed S1 (Placed in the slipper).
- Function OwnOptimizer: he/she helps to optimize the load of the training to avoid the excess or the lack of training. It is based on the carried out mensurations of the FC and of their variability during a test ortostatico.
- Polar Mobile: Interactuar possibility by means of mobile telephony with telephones Nokia.
- Possibility to configure limits FC in form of percentages of the maximum FC.
- Possibility to configure a summary of limits of FC during the exercise.
- I register automatic of turns based on the distance.
- New design of the wing in black metal.
- Optional sensors of the speed cyclist, cadence and exit of power (ideal triatletas).
- Transmitter of coded cloth WearLink.
Polar S625X combines corporal mensurations, of yield and of the environment, creating palpable advantages for the corridor!
(Anyone care to translate?)
After reading Greyhound's assessment of features I am a bit worried, though..... I'm not sure I want a gadget which is capable of "mensurations" sounds like it could get messy.............however, at least it also comes equiped with "new design of the wing" and there's nothing like wings to cope with mensurations.
Anyone out there have both?
At least, that's all it seems to involve. Tonight I'll find out what it's actually done with that setting and recorded.
I'd also want it to cost less than £200.
Took me a moment to figure out that your HR hadn't dropped from 110 to 30
When I run from my house in Blackheath to Greenwich and back I can see when I go down the hill I speed up a little and when I run back up the other side I slow down a lot. My heart goes nuts on the uphill and apparently doesn't really slow down again until I stop. My excuse is that I've not been able to train for a couple of months because of a knee op, but it's nice to see a graph of just how unfit I've become.
The resolution's good - a reading every five seconds (at the maximum data rate). I can even see a drop in the speed trace at 6 minutes every day where I have to wait to cross the A2.
There's a book on how to use an HRM effectively, but I can't rememher what it's called. Anybody care to enlighten us?
Its really far easier and faster to go this way rather than via the main menu.