It can be VERY basic. I want to see TWO things on ONE screen: 1. Heart Rate, and 2. Total Time.
Really, that’s ALL I need. I don’t need zones, or downloadable/uploadable anything. I don’t need calories or other calculations of sorts. Just HEART RATE and TOTAL TIME.
ONE screen. I don’t want to be flipping through screens to switch between heart rate and time. I can’t believe they make heart rate monitors where you’d have to do this, but it seems they do.
It has to be waterproof, of course.
I’d rather it was NOT a GPS watch. I have three of them. I don’t wear them in races and don’t want them in races. I just want a heart rate monitor in races. For some reason people will still point me to (expensive) GPS watches when I say this.
It should be UNDER $100, or at least near it, considering what I’m asking for.
My previous watch did this, (although at what price I don’t know, b/c someone gave it to me). However it died, during the swim at Redman Full (of course, right?). It flooded.
Sigma makes a bunch of basic HRM watches. The PC 3.11 might fit your bill (although it is classified as “watertight”, not sure what that means) and only costs about $40-50.
you dont wanna wear a gps watch in a race, but you will wear a hrm on your wrist?
why not just set the data fields to show you only total time and HR? Seems like that is the most simple and cost effective way to go.
Hola,
I’m looking for a heart rate monitor as such:
It can be VERY basic. I want to see TWO things on ONE screen: 1. Heart Rate, and 2. Total Time.
Really, that’s ALL I need. I don’t need zones, or downloadable/uploadable anything. I don’t need calories or other calculations of sorts. Just HEART RATE and TOTAL TIME.
ONE screen. I don’t want to be flipping through screens to switch between heart rate and time. I can’t believe they make heart rate monitors where you’d have to do this, but it seems they do.
It has to be waterproof, of course.
I’d rather it was NOT a GPS watch. I have three of them. I don’t wear them in races and don’t want them in races. I just want a heart rate monitor in races. For some reason people will still point me to (expensive) GPS watches when I say this.
It should be UNDER $100, or at least near it, considering what I’m asking for.
My previous watch did this, (although at what price I don’t know, b/c someone gave it to me). However it died, during the swim at Redman Full (of course, right?). It flooded.
Sigma makes a bunch of basic HRM watches. The PC 3.11 might fit your bill (although it is classified as “watertight”, not sure what that means) and only costs about $40-50.
you dont wanna wear a gps watch in a race, but you will wear a hrm on your wrist?
why not just set the data fields to show you only total time and HR? Seems like that is the most simple and cost effective way to go.
Like I said, someone always wants to suggest I use a GPS watch.
It’s a waste of money. Unless you can find me a $100 GPS watch that is also a heart rate monitor.
Training with pace and HR is I think is nearly as big of a jump as adding power to your bike. For $130 you can get the Forerunner 10 and track pace and distance. Is $30 going to break the bank.
Why is it a waste of money to know your actual pace and distance covered? Do you train on your bike with just a stopwatch and heart rate monitor? IF you have a pwoer meter you actually might be better off not knowing your speed… but without, it’s a good way to track your progress.
This morning I ran outdoors for the first time in 5 days. For whatever reason my fitness or run economy jumped or something and I was runing a whole 0:20/mile faster than before at hte the HR, but it didn’t feel harder. The cool, dense air probably helped too. I would never have known unless I had a precisely marked course. For tempo runs and tempo intervals, I train to a pace as much as heart rate. I also like using a foot pod to monitor cadence… but those are $50.
“I’d rather it was NOT a GPS watch. I have three of them.”
I was suggesting you use a gps watch that you already have since you stated that you have 3 of them. Therefore it wouldnt be a waste of money. Hell, you could probably turn the gps part off and just use the timer and HR if you are so dead set on not having gps.
On the otherhand, if you mis- typed and do not own a gps, there are plenty of gps watches under 100$. I have bought a forerunner 110 for right at $100.
Training with pace and HR is I think is nearly as big of a jump as adding power to your bike. For $130 you can get the Forerunner 10 and track pace and distance. Is $30 going to break the bank.
Uh…that watch doesn’t even monitor heart rate.
What is it with people on Slowtwitch. Nearly every question is met by a bunch of people who not only don’t read the actual question, but then go off on a tangent to point out your incorrect thinking while injecting their own unrelated suggestions.
Why is it a waste of money to know your actual pace and distance covered? Do you train on your bike with just a stopwatch and heart rate monitor? IF you have a pwoer meter you actually might be better off not knowing your speed… but without, it’s a good way to track your progress.
YES, I DO bike with a watch and a heart rate monitor. Know why? Because my bike has a computer. It tells me the distance! Did I ask a question about power meters? WTF?
This morning I ran outdoors for the first time in 5 days. For whatever reason my fitness or run economy jumped or something and I was runing a whole 0:20/mile faster than before at hte the HR, but it didn’t feel harder. The cool, dense air probably helped too. I would never have known unless I had a precisely marked course. For tempo runs and tempo intervals, I train to a pace as much as heart rate. I also like using a foot pod to monitor cadence… but those are $50.
“I’d rather it was NOT a GPS watch. I have three of them.”
I was suggesting you use a gps watch that you already have since you stated that you have 3 of them. Therefore it wouldnt be a waste of money. Hell, you could probably turn the gps part off and just use the timer and HR if you are so dead set on not having gps.
On the otherhand, if you mis- typed and do not own a gps, there are plenty of gps watches under 100$. I have bought a forerunner 110 for right at $100.
But whatever floats your boat…good luck!
Bangs head
Of my three GPS watches, two do not do heart rate, and the one that does isn’t waterproof.
This is actually the watch I had that just flooded. It was a great watch. As this shows, you can see time and heart rate on one screen. http://www.amazon.com/...pwatch/dp/B000FW3Z6O
I just assumed it wasn’t made anymore, since I thought it was old.
Even if old, I didn’t think to look online to replace the same watch.
I’m an idiot.
Did I say I’m an idiot?
I’m going to look into just replacing the watch I had with the same watch now.
shaking head at myself
Thank you!
Reading about these, they say that they are water “resistant.” I hate that because it’s so vague. Of course that’s what happened to mine. It drowned. But it may be that it was just time for it to die, or it was kicked around a lot, or something. I don’t have a feel for how much water something that is water “resistant” can handle.
I’ve used the Omron brand before and it broke, well it was the HR strap but still. Cheap and well… cheap. After that I’ve used Polar and haven’t had any reason to change. Check their offerings on your price point, I have the 625x (still alive after how many years) and rcx5 which are both waterproof and not a gps watch.