anyone who runs with this stuff... how accurate is it with pace and mileage? do you like it?
anyone who runs with this stuff... how accurate is it with pace and mileage? do you like it?
everyone I know who has one , has had them go black...
i like mine, yeah the display sucks and i think they are going to change that. if you calibrate it, its pretty accurate. it will get confused on your pace if you change your stride / cadence, but over anything like 3 miles it pretty much evens out.
i use it more than my forerunner 405. I ran with both on for a while to check accuracy and the sport band was within a few hundredths of a mile
For $59 it isn't too bad of an investment. Keep the price of the thing in mind before you complain too much about it's accuracy. The display sucks and will prbably go black within 6 months or so. Send it back to nike and get a new one, they are pretty good about doing this. It seems to underestimate distance when you run faster than the pace it was calibrated at and vice versa. Overall I'd say it is a nice toy that can tell you roughly how far you went but I wouldn't complain to a race director that his 5k course is short when your sportband reads 2.97 mi.
take the $60 and invest it in something (educate yourself first), then buy a garmin when you start to make money.
in my limited experience with running retail, the people who bought garmins were looking for precision while the people who bought sportbands were looking for trendy. we had numerous problems with sportbands just sitting in the store and ended up sending our entire stock back to nike. i think they'll get some of the bugs ironed out over the next year or so. if you're looking for an actual training tool though, get a garmin. if you want something that looks stylish and sleek and is relatively useless, get a sportband.
(*disclaimer: my experience with garmins and sportbands is limited to playing with them in the store to figure out how they work. the store owner loves the sportband and my roommate loves his garmin. personally, i prefer a watch and a keen sense of pacing.)
am a 40-50 mile a week guy and I love the Sportband.....when I download to your computer it tells me I ran 6:02, 7:02 or 8:12 pace for every mile in the run. There are some bugs for sure but Nike was quick to replace mine when the screen went black after 2 months. Good initial try in the market and not too much $$$ invested. I had the Garmin Forerunner 101 and it was much better but much more expensive.
Jelly
any other comments? Is the pace feature still broken?
running is better wrote:
take the $60 and invest it in something (educate yourself first), then buy a garmin when you start to make money.
Amazon reviews on the garmin aren't that great.
#!/bin/bash wrote:
running is better wrote:take the $60 and invest it in something (educate yourself first), then buy a garmin when you start to make money.
Amazon reviews on the garmin aren't that great.
A couple of my friends and my coach have the Garmin. I think the main problem people run into is that they don't know how to use it. If you read the intructions and take time to learn the technology, it's pretty amazing stuff. The Garmin is accurate, but expensive. But you can create workouts on your computer and put them into the watch and go out and run them without mile markers or anything. It makes cross-country training really like cross-country. It's great technology for race simulation type workouts, instead of doing 1k repeats on a track when you will be running up mountains. I say that if you have the money, and I am currently saving mine, purchase the Garmin and read all the instructions. You will not be dissatisfied.
The amazon reviews seem to point to various problems caused by sweat. Most of the reviewers state they've had other gps waches.
they were recalled by nike in the fall