I kept my eye on Ebay waiting for a good Woodway to come up. I got one for $1.5k with no visible wear on the belt and no dust on the inside of the unit. I had a maintenance staffer from Virginia Tech who services the school's dozen or so Woodways come check it out. He offered to buy it off me for $8k. I declined. He showed me how to service it. I've put in hundreds of miles on it at this point and it's bombproof, quiet, sturdy, the slats make it super soft and they can easily be individually replaced if they get worn (mine show no sign of wear), it rolls on 116 steel ball bearings, the electronics are simple with no gimmicks, this is my one treadmill for life. I don't have a warranty, but I'm mechanically inclined and worse case, I have to replace the circuit board (less than $300 new) or the motor ($250); I'm more than ok with that out of pocket seeing that the likelihood of these parts going bad is very slim. The VT staffer pointed out that their Woodway's in the student gym are running at least 15 hours a day, 7 days a week, and they due minimal servicing every six months and they've had six of their Woodway treadmills for ten years, with only needing to replace a single motor and a handful of the belt-slats in all of this time. I used YRC freight shipping and had the treadmill shipped from St George, Utah to Blacksburg, VA for only $300 and the treadmill rails were not disassembled and they picked it up at the seller's home garage and delivered to my front door (UPS wanted to charge $2k, fully disassembled, and I would have had to pick up at at their warehouse).

So yes, as another poster wrote, go Woodway, all of the way. The difference in how the belts function is so much better on the Woodway that there is just absolutely no comparison. My Woodway goes to 12mph and inclines to something ridiculous that I'll never use. I put down two layers of commercial gym quality foam to go under the treadmill. It does not shake the house or rattle anything and the single box fan I have running is louder than the treadmill.

As for Google maps: I highly suggest waiting for Zwift running, instead. As for music, a nice bluetooth speaker (I run a Sony XR-55) and/or bluetooth headphones are better than anything that comes stock with a treadmill. Running on a decline? not sure how useful that is, honestly; I mean, I do it outdoors in the weeks leading up to hitting the track, Lasse Virin in Bogata style, but at 0% incline on the treadmill at a quicker speed, I'm definitely not concerned about that.

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