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Ability to View Heart Rate, Navigation, and Speed + Distance Data
Heart Rate Features:
- Target Zones: Preset your desired heart rate exercise zone. Alarm notification when you are not in zone
- Average Heart Rate: displays your average heart rate over a period of time
- Time In Zone: Amount of time spent within your selected heart rate target zone
- Recovery Heart Rate Timer: Measures your heart rate after a timed recovery
- %-of-Max Heart Rate Display
- Max Heart Rate Zone Calculation: Automatically sets your five training zones; one manual zone
- Digital Transmission: TIMEX's system protects your data from other heart rate monitors and most exercise equipment
- Data Recorder 2 Compatible
- Bike Mount Included
- Owner-Replaceable Battery: Water-resistant hatch in heart rate sensor allows for a quick and easy battery change.
Navigation Features:
- Latitude and Longitude: Enhanced GPS functionality to provide latitude and longitude
- Altitude/Elevation Data: GPS-provided altitude with vertical speed (ascent and descent rates)
- Waypoints Mode: Ability to take up to 10 waypoints
- Heading: GPS-provided on-the-move compass directional heading
- Track Back: Navigate back to selected waypoint
Speed + Distance Features:
- Exact Speeds: Measures real-time, average and maximum speed
- Exact Pace: Calculates your pace, average pace and best pace
- Exact Distance: Tracks your workout distance, gives target distance alerts
- Continuous Odometer: Keeps track of your total distance for a workout or group of workouts
- Hands Free Operation: Start, stop and take splits automatically based on distance or time
- Finish Time: Predictive finish time mode uses total event distance and pace data.
Watch Features:
- INDIGLO® night-light with NIGHT-MODE® feature
- Summary Mode: review navigational, speed, distance and heart rate performance data at end of workout
- 100-hour chronograph with either lap/split option in large digits
- 100-lap memory with recall of Bodylink® system data
- 2 linked interval timers
- 100-hour, 3-mode countdown timer
- 5 alarms for daily, weekday, weekend or weekly with 5-minute backup
- Watch: 2 Year battery life
- Watch: Water-resistant 50m
Comments about Timex Timex Ironman Triathlon Trail Runner Bodylink System:
I've used all of these different fitness/training watches. I prefer the Garmin.
The Polar has a lot of extra features for running, but it's really too impractical for everyday use in my view.
The timex GPS isn't as good as the Garmin. The Polar has substandard GPS as well. But the GPS is functional for the most part. Only the Garmin is ready to go, in most places quickly. Plus the Garmin has no extra GPS hardware to strap on.
The Times isn't bad, it's slightly more expensive that the Garmin, and slightly less than the Polar. For the money, the Garmin is the best, if you don't mind a non-user replaceable battery and a rather large watch that you can't really wear around town.