So my watch broke on the last day of the endurance nation camp in lake placid. My trusty timex , which I had never left off my hands for years snapped in two. I was completely freaked out, have an ironman in 25 days , a wedding in 65, and you worry about among all things a watch .
So went online and decided I needed to get a different watch. I was hoping I could just get the new timex GPS trainer which had just come out. But after reading the review by another en athlete decided it was a waster of money. So then it was down to doing research of the different watches. Finally decided on the Polar 800CX system, it worked in a similar way to the timex. The hearrate and and watch worked together pretty well . And the GPS was standalone. And then if I want the bike speed unit. It connects to the computer to transfer data through IR. The only big NO-NO was it is not ANT+ compatible.
So I ended up buying it from amazon. And it finally arrived today. Went out for a test run , the GPS couldn’t get any satellites . But I wasn’t planning on using that during the race . The hearrate was nice. Now I just have to go through the several hundred screens to configure it.