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easy this was to use ‚Äì the instructions were barely needed. It's a good HRM for runners looking to lose weight and build fitness, though not complex enough for advanced HRM training.Contact www.reebok.co.ukNike Triax C8, £100 Features Target HR

though, it does the basics well enough.Contact www.timex.comTimex BodyLink Trail Runner £180 Tested by Big KevFeatures Simultaneous display of heart rate and speed distance, 2 linked interval timers, latitude, longitude and altitude, navigation

to sit too low (the straps aren’t adjustable) so the signal can take a while to settle down. Contact www.polar-uk.com; 01926 816 177; www.triumph-international.co.uk, 01793 720 232 Timex Ironman Ladies 30 Lap HRM – £80This is not really a women’s heart

waymark routes so you don’t become lost; you can program and store interval sessions on the watch; store 1,000 laps worth of data; and download your runs to your PC and overlay them on mapping websites. The HRM information can be downloaded onto your PC

11 heart rate monitorPantsAnts, for his excellent assessment of his Polar 625x speed & distance monitorCMR, for his love-hate review of his Garmin Forerunner 201David Howard, for his review of his Navman R300And, as we also promised a 205 or 305 to a

as accurate an investment.Polar RS200SD - £155The RS200SD is easier to set up and use than Polar's more expensive monitors. In theory, you can lace the footpod on to your shoe, head out for a run and expect 97 per cent accuracy. Most runners, though

You have to pity race organisers. They go to great pains to have someone ride round their course measuring it with a Jones-Oerth counter, then 200 runners turn up wearing wrist-mounted GPS computers and claim the route is 300 metres too long. Speed

own plan on the calendar which will then synchronise with the watch on connection. These plans can be as in-depth or vague as you like (for example, run at 10mm pace for one mile, then 10 intervals of 400m at 8mm pace followed by two minutes at 12mm

, but your new training paces might come as a surprise too. Before you get started, work out the right benchmarks to work towards by finding your maximum heart rate. If you're a complete beginner, start off with this very approximate formula: 214 - (0.8 x