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Marcus Lee 3:
Are you still impressed with it?
If you have an easy/medium/hard pace over say a 4 mile run try and calibrate the pod over your medium pace for the 1 mile.
Good luck and enjoy! As I know you will...
Thanks for the info, will do my best to calibrate it while I am away. Is it likely to be out by much if I don't until I am back? I suppose I will have to measure the distance somehow.
Reading other threads around it doesn't look like it would be much out, in fact when I did the 4 laps of a track it recorded 1620m so that's only just over 1% out I think? But of course it depends upon your running style and terrain a little.
I think can live with 1%. The terrain is not likely to be that varied so I think I'll leave the calibrating until I am back.
Yes I'm still impressed with my RS200SD.
I have setup the data transfer onto the Polar Running Coach website which seems to work ok (yes - very sad I know!!). Only comment is that it only stores the summary data when you transfer - not a problem for me.
Have only managed to upload it to the Personal trainer website - mine didn't come with any software so I don't know what Polar plan on doing.
I'll keep you informed.
Hopefully I'll be as impressed as everyone else!
Interested in how others are finding it!
Anybody managed to get the Polar weblink to work from the watch to the PC Polar running coach web service for the upload of data and if so which brand of microphone are you using?
Is there anyway to record laptimes to the training diary in the web service?
Not had any problem uploading to the webite so far and all I am using is the headset that I got with our computer years ago. It can be a little bit temperamental though and I only seem to get it to work by holding the watch very, very close to the microphone.
I haven't looked at all the features of the watch so far, but I am very impressed with it. Have been using it since the 18th August now. I have not calibrated it yet, but think the distance is pretty accurate out of the box too.
The only drawback is that it doesn't come with anything to store it in. For me it doesn't really matter because I am using my old Polar HRM case, but it might do for other people. Minor thing?
Definitely think it is a lot better than using a GPS system and less bulky too.
Watches like the Timex IM 50 lap Sleek do not sit well on my wrist.
Have bought/tried using a Sony condenser microphone ECM T-6 as recommended on PC Coach website. I can hear the signal coming out of the speakers on my computer and it is still saying that there is no answer from the HR monitor! Getting bars on the sound level indicator.
Have tried various permutations of distance and volume.
Also have to be reasonably quick to press the button on the watch after clicking on send/receive or it fails.
I ran on the treadmill at the gym yesterday and the watch was measuring 300 metres shorter than the treadmill. Will running on a 400m track this evening so will calibrate it. I had suspected it was a little bit short.
Yes, I suppose they might be, but I should be all callibrated by the end of tonight assuming I have time to read the instructions before I go.
Sorry this is what I've found out.
"What kind of hardware configuration is needed?
To be able to run Polar WebLink you need a PC with Windows 95, 98, 98SE, ME, NT4, 2000, XP or 2003.
To transfer files via Polar SonicLink, you need a sound card and a microphone.
Depending on your wrist unit model, you need an IrDA port or an external IR device for Infrared communication.
To transfer data from WebLink to your Polar Personal Trainer web service, you need a network connection and a web browser with Macromedia Flash Player 7. "
Any dissent from anyone based on having used both?
Can't comment on the S625X but I am so pleased with RS200sd, use it all of the time. Also very useful to be able to upload everything to www.polarrunningcoach.com to keep track of my progress. Definitely accurate.
I'm assuming that the RS200SD also gives a reading for current pace/speed. For those of you who've tried one, how reliable does this feature seem to be? Any comments much appreciated.