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The Bargain Nexus - Timex Ironman T5J985 Unisex Trail Runner Bodylink Heart Rate Monitor Watch
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List Price: $349.99
Our Price: $224.00
Your Save: $ 125.99 ( 36% )
Availability: Usually ships in 24 hours
Manufacturer: Timex
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Binding: Sports
Brand: Timex
Department: mens
EAN: 0753048268924
Feature: Combines GPS location data with heart rate monitor for serious runners
Label: Timex
Manufacturer: Timex
Model: T5J985
Publisher: Timex
Release Date: 2007-07-23
Studio: Timex
Warranty: One-Year Warranty
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Features
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Combines GPS location data with heart rate monitor for serious runners
Provides latitude and longitude, altitude/elevation data; record up to 10 waypoints for Track Back
Chest strap heart rate monitor provides target zones with alarm and time in zone
100-hour chronograph; 100-lap memory; 5 alarms
Watch is water resistant to 50 meters (165 feet); up to 2-year battery life
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Spotlight customer reviews:
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Summary: Doesn't work in the mountains
Comment: The heart rate monitor is very simple to use and works great. This instrument also tells time, but that's it. When skiing in the mountains, it just plain doesn't work. If you bet your life on the gps coordinates getting you back to the parking lot in fog, they would find tour new watch frozen to your inert body. I have a Garmin product that actually picks up satellite signals, this watch does not. Even on a mellow cross country outing, the gps fails 50% of the time, at best. I can't even imagine it working properly amongst high buildings.
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Summary: had troubles with it
Comment: This is crucial information for not well satellite covered regions: this watch needs to contact at least TWO satellites to establish a GPS connection (I read that in the manual when I had already buy it... at least 2, and I'm not sure that maybe 3 are needed). Where I live, every other GPS device I know works fine, but this doesn't. If I travel some 200 miles north from where I live (a major Mexican city), the GPS works perfect... but not where I live (because above my head it seems that there's only one GPS satellite). So, I bought the watch, but although any other GPS watch my friends have work right here, this has never worked... so I've only used the HR monitor.
But precisely, yet another issue... the HR monitor has worked perfect, but after a year and a half, it has stopped working in a constant way. I changed the watch and monitor batteries, but still the same. When starting workout it gives a correct measure, but after a few minutes it locks in 240 bpm. I'm sure the contact isn't wrong (the sensors are humid enough), so there's no other explanation but that the watch has give it all, although I always take care of it very much so it doesn't get too wet, clean it properly, etc.
In the last month I did 2 Ironman's and 1 marathon, so I'm everyday totally depending of this kind of equipment to train and compete. I'm not seeing other alternative than to buy other different watch.
I see that most of the other posts talk wonders of this watch, so maybe it's true and my situation is an isolated one (that I just had bad luck with a fabric-details one), but even though I think it might be useful for others to report my particular use case.
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Summary: Great watch!
Comment: Excellent watch! Very accurate GPS that tracks pace well and does not lose signal. As mentioned, it does take a few minutes to link up the GPS, but once it is linked up, it works perfectly. My only complaint is that it is a unisex watch - but the wrist strap is pretty big for a medium frame woman. As a woman, even the smallest size is a little bit loose. I contacted Timex to see if I could exchange the wrist strap for a smaller one, and apparently the wrist strap it comes with is the only one that fits on the watch. In the end I decided I liked everything else about the watch so much, that I didn't mind a little slipping around.
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Summary: Just not very accurate
Comment: I have been using this product for the last month on marathon training runs. I find that the GPS is not very accurate and the distance measure tends to drift high. For example, on my last 20 mile run the GPS was off by about 1 1/2 miles; it was accurate for some of the trip but gave me readings too high on certain segments. (I was running along a river with little interference from trees or large buildings so I don't have an easy explanation). Other than that the heart rate monitor works fine and the watch functionality is good.
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Summary: Love this item
Comment: I haven't used the GPS locator yet but I have used the heart rate monitor several times and love it.
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Editorial Reviews:
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Accept no imitations or limitations. There is only one Timex IRONMAN* Triathlon�. Stylish enough for the weekend warrior, technical enough for the extreme athlete. Don't swim, bike, run, jump, climb, throw, or kick without one. FEATURES INCLUDE: INDIGLO� night-light; Water Resistant to 50m; Size: Extra Large; Dual Time Zones; One-Year Warranty; Alarms;2 Year Battery Life; Preset heart rate zones;Automatically set your 5 training zones;Measure recovery heart rate; Amount of time spent within selected zone; Heart rate display in %-of-max format; GPS functionality to provide latitude and longitude; Ascent and descent rates;Up to 10 waypoints; On-the-move directional heading; Navigate to selected waypoints.
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