Do any of you guys know if models like the c8 c10 or the like tell you your avg. heartrate. I know they certainly tell you avg. pace for your splits but also the avg heartrate for the run? Which model does this?
I'm looking for the cheapest nike watch that can tell me both my avg. pace splits and the avg. heartrate.
I don't know about the new seires of Nike HRM's, but the original one's were complete crap. I went throught two of them before switching to Polar.
Forget Nike, and get a Polar S120 instead. RRS has them for ~$85.00, and you can get free shipping through the link on the front page.
The Nike C series is quite good. Just as good as the Polar series. The Nike is more user friendly, but the Polar may offer a few more features. The C8 differs from the C10 by the amount of lap splits, which the C10 has 100 lap splits as opposed to 50 with the C8. The C10 is coded, which means it won't interfere with other heart rate monitors in the area. The Polar is unrepairable. And if you don't get the new models, which are slightly more expensive than the Nike, then you have to send the band back to Polar for a whole new band, because the geniuses at Polar decided not to offer a simple battery hatch in the back of the strap. Nike's all have that battery hatch and are fairly easy to change. But don't change the battery on your own during the warranty phase, for it will invalidate the warranty. Polar is accurate though. But don't listen to Nike nay-sayers who are unjustifiably anti-Nike because they think Polar isn't similarily a large corporation behaving like a large corporation. (The C8 is the first Nike in the series that offers lap memory)
So the C8 would do the trick. 1. be the cheapest, 2. avg. split times, and 3. avg. heartrate recall?
Also I reall don't like polar, I've looked at them but don't like them.