I've been surfing the web and looking at reviews, but the problem with reviews is you get a mix of good and bad and it always seems like the reviews are so mixed that it might as well be a toss up. Maybe I'll get a great watch that will work wonderfully, maybe I'll get a shitty watch that I'll be constantly fighting with.
I had the good and the bad in one of my old watches, a Polar (can't remember the model number). The heart rate monitor aspect was great. The timing aspect was great (when are they not?), but the GPS unit was blocky and never calibrated correctly. It was a pain in the ass pretty much. I think it told me I ran 3 miles when I really ran 1 mile once... That threw up the red flag.
I've been leaning toward the Nike+ considering I already use the Nike+ app on my cell phone. I am tracking the year's mileage on an excel sheet, but I have over 500 miles logged on Nike+. In fact, in the next 70 or so miles I'll finally be leveling up! So as you can see it's hard for me to completely let it go. Still, I've seen spectacular reviews and then I've seen reviews where people have returned multiple devices so I'm just not sure.
It does get frustrating looking through reviews and I'm at that point where I'm just not sure where to turn. I've reached out to some fellow runners, one of whom I really respect, and I'm hoping to get some suggestions from then. I'm also reaching out to you guys... do any of you have any suggestions about watches? Not looking for anything super fancy and I would love to keep it on the more financially reasonable side.
