I bought a Navman the other day just to backup the distance measured, as sometimes my Polar is a little out, depending on the speed I run of which trainers I'm in.
In all fairness, it picked up a satellite lock before I got out of the door, even though it said in the box that I had to wait until I got outside.
It was a very cloudy day when I ran out into the countryside and it didn't lose a signal. What it would be like in a city I don't know, cos I never run in that type of environment.
It'll measure calories burned (a little out from the Polar, but not much, and who's to say the Polar is bang on?!) average pace and you can see what pace you're running at when you're going which is good.
It's a very basic bit of kit and does what it says. If you want something that downloads graphs etc so you can check HR on your runs etc, then no good. But if you just want to keep a record of your times and distance, it does the job.
After all the whinges I've heard about the garmin, eg, erratic readings, contact points tarnishing, software being c**p hence having to download other stuff off the web, people having to send them back for replacements etc, I'd much rather stick to my Polar S625x. It has good software, fitness tests, overtraining tests etc, and I just use the Navman when I do a new route to check the distance is bang on. Although, 80% of the time the Polar is bang on with the distance, it just goes out by about 10% sometimes.
Happy running, whatever you decide :-)
Posted: 20/05/2007 at 08:43
