Does anyone use one of these and can you recommend one? I want to pick one up and I was checking them out a bit last night. Do all of them come with the little foot pod thingy that you have to attach to your shoe? That sounds like a pain in the ass, in addition to making the whole setup a bit pricey. Is there any watch where just the thing itself with no additional gadgetry tracks your miles? I'm not looking for anything fancy or worried about precision accuracy, just something that would give me a reasonable sense of how far I've run.
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What price range? you can get a cheap pedometer for $10, or get a watch with GPS for a whole lot.
Another option: a coworker went paragliding last weekend up by Wenatchee somewhere. He had a GPS-enabled app on his iPhone that downloaded his route, IN 3D, to googleearth. Very cool!
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I was hoping for about $100. The stuff I saw last night was in the $200-$300 range when you added the foot pod.Originally posted by NorthwestUteFan View Post
I don't have an iPhone.So Russell...what do you love about music? To begin with, everything.Comment
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This is the choice of CUF. $138Originally posted by MarkGrace View Post
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That's one I was looking at last night where you have to buy the additional foot pod thing. Oh well, maybe I'll just bite the bullet and go that route.So Russell...what do you love about music? To begin with, everything.Comment
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Are you strictly running indoors? The 305 uses GPS to track mileage.Originally posted by MarkGrace View Post"Nobody listens to Turtle."-TurtlesigpicComment
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The foot pod is only if you are running on a treadmill.Comment
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No, outside. If I was indoors I'd just hop on a treadmill and it would tell me how far I've gone.Originally posted by Surfah View Post
$138 and then it's another $50 I think for the foot pod thingy. More than I was hoping to spend, but maybe I'll just go for it.So Russell...what do you love about music? To begin with, everything.Comment
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You don't need the foot pod outside. Everything is tracked on the watch by GPS.Originally posted by MarkGrace View PostNo, outside. If I was indoors I'd just hop on a treadmill and it would tell me how far I've gone.
$138 and then it's another $50 I think for the foot pod thingy. More than I was hoping to spend, but maybe I'll just go for it."Nobody listens to Turtle."-TurtlesigpicComment
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Oh, sorry, I missed that. Cool. Maybe I'll order that one up.So Russell...what do you love about music? To begin with, everything.Comment
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Grace no foot pod needed. We all run with the 305 and love it. You will too.Comment
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I like mine, but it doesn't have a watch feature (or if it does, I haven't figured out how to access it). That is my only complaint. Sometimes I want to just know what time it is when I am out on a run.Originally posted by MarkGrace View PostWhat's to explain? It's a bunch of people, most of whom you've never met, who are just as likely to be homicidal maniacs as they are to be normal everyday people, with whom you share the minutiae of your everyday life. It's totally normal, and everyone would understand.
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It does have a watch in it. You just need to program one of your screens to show time of day. I have it in one of my alternate screens, so I click the up button to show the time.Originally posted by marsupial View PostComment
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Awesome...thanks peeps!
Random question, why would you want to use it on a treadmill? Just for heart rate stuff?So Russell...what do you love about music? To begin with, everything.Comment
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Is there a simple way to explain how to do that or do I need to go find my user manual.Originally posted by Sea Chicken View PostWhat's to explain? It's a bunch of people, most of whom you've never met, who are just as likely to be homicidal maniacs as they are to be normal everyday people, with whom you share the minutiae of your everyday life. It's totally normal, and everyone would understand.
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