Wow! Looks cool! Do you know if anyone is selling these yet? After a quick web search I have not found any retailers and Polar doesn’t have a release date slated until 6/04.
It doesn’t appear that the new 725 has different power capabilities than any of the other 7## series. I decided not to try it since it appeared to be so unreliable. Is there something better about the new 725?
Train with power, race from your heart. While the gizmos are great, I know of countless elite and age group athletes who have blown their races by getting caught up in numbers. Yes, I do agree that the numbers are a great guideline, but if you have been training with watts and HRM, you should be able to correlate your perceived exertion with the equivalent numbers. My best Ironmans and short course races were done with no bike computer, no watch, no HRM, nothing. I ran a 2:48 marathon with nothing on. The next year, I ran with my HRM and ran 2:53 with my HR pegged between 170 and 180 the whole way (my max is 194), but I did not follow the “attacks” and stay in people’s draft as I did not want to spike beyond 180. When I ran 2:48, I just went with the flow and made sure that I was in the draft for 90% of the time. If that meant having to run as sub 6 min mile for a short stretch, that is what I did.
Good luck with racing with power numbers if you want, it is just not for me :-).
