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Sunday 26 September 2010

Timex Ironman Global Trainer GPS watch


The Timex Ironman Global Trainer GPS watch is really a significant workout device for virtually any outdoor sports activity – jogging, biking, open water swims, inline skating, skate skiing as well as anything else done outdoors.

This particular excellent brand new GPS watch tracks speed, mileage, heart rate, really does split timing, calories burned, has a countdown feature plus a lot more. It is the ultimate application for your really serious endurance sportsman. It is actually also ANT certified and is going to display power productivity through watts devices.

Acquire pace, distance, plus more on the wrist top. Together with cutting edge GPS technological know-how and ANT compatibility*, Global Trainer records your current efficiency across a number of dimensions, offering instant info with a easy to customize display. Actually, for all those that like customizing then you definitely are going to go loco over the Timex Global Trainer.

Timex was really smart to team up with Training Peaks by having Training Peaks generate the workout analysis software the brand new Ironman Global Trainer is run on. This was the better plan on Timex’s behalf due to the fact that Training Peaks does indeed have great functions.



However, if there are any kind of chinks within the armor with the Ironman Global Trainer it may be the general size, it happens to be large like the Garmin 310XT, and the fact that the watch does two second saving cycles, in lieu of one second, that’s the recognized standard, for those interested in watts production. Additionally, the lack of vibrating alerts makes it not as valuable as a monitor in contrast to the Garmin 310XT if you’d prefer to crank the tunes during exercise.

For the plus area, Timex is actually working at firmware improvements that should begin to smooth out lots of the functions as some time goes by.

Throughout the run this wrist watch functions lovely with lap electronic timers, a countdown timer and also actual speed as well as mileage with chiming alerts if you’re violating your own pre-set ranges.



This watch includes a cycling mount, USB data cable connection and recharging clip as well as a wall mount system for recharging for people who don’t really care to transfer their own data. It is also water-resistant to 50 meters and includes a very soft ECG strap that is practically the same to Garmin’s advanced ECG strap.

The actual Timex Ironman Global Trainer can be purchased in two versions, together with and devoid of the chest strap. The actual chest strap is 2.4 GHZ transmission and as a result is not going to broadcast pulse rate in the swim, exactly the same applies to all of the Garmin’s monitors. The Polar’s T31 chest strap and a Suunto Memory Belt are the exclusive products we have screened that really work in the course of the swimming thus far.



On the whole the Ironman Global Trainer is really a pleasant first stab at Timex’s entrance into the self-contained GPS watch marketplace but we’d be required to grade it being a level under the Garmin 310XT for sincere triathlon athletes. Timex did correct the situation with bike pedal cadence by producing a pace, cadence, distance system that hangs beneath the actual right back chainstay, therefore the Timex Ironman Global Trainer will have without a doubt fixed any pedal cadence issue.


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