Sunday, July 17, 2011

Week 4 with Nike+ SportWatch GPS

Sorry I missed last week. There was a race on Sunday that ended at a brewery, and well, you can connect the dots (the Boilermaker is a great race if you can ever get out to Utica for it).

The watch performed like a champ at the race and for all training runs before and since the race, but the lack of heart rate zone “alerts” is a little bit of a downer. It was nice when when my watch would tell me where I was with respect to hear rate. The screen on the Nike+ GPS watch is great for reading it, but having the ability to set and be notified of your changing heart rate zones is a very nice feature.

The Nike+ site does a nice job of making you aware of heart rate, and even the zones to an extent so I’m surprised this was not a feature of the watch. I would guess this could be added as a software update at a later date, so I think I might start lobbying.

Have a great week all.

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