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"Buy the forerunner and toss the pedometer."
onPros Gives you all the info you could want and easy to use. Beats re-driving a route to see how far you went.
Cons Could use longer battery life. I do ultra-walks of up to 24 hrs and don't like to deal with changing batteries while fatigued.
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"Very Inaccurate"
on by crosscourt2Pros Easy to read. Keeps Time. Keeps History
Cons Inaccurate. Pace time not dependable. Distance is very inaccurate.
Summary This GPS is inexpensive for a good reason, it's inaccurate in keeping track of the most important things to a runner: Distance run and Pace. The higher end Garmin's use a better technology for calculating these. The GPS signal gets blocked frequently. I could never recommend this to anyone.
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"Perfect for GPS, pedometer, altimeter and more"
on by screamloudphotoPros Easy to navigate menus, easy interface and buttons. Large display and light weight unit.
Cons Can't hook it up to a computer or add additional memory. But it doesn't appear this will be a problem at all.
Summary I just got the forerunner for Christmas this year (2008). I'm using rechargeable batteries and it's been working great for the last 2 hours and still going. I saw a previous post had issues with using rechargeable batteries. It doesnt seem to be a problem for me. I did notice there is an option to change from alkaline to nihm.
Features I really like so far, snowboarding and hiking I've been packing my magelin gps. The garmin forerunner 101, you can set a custom screen which for me is a huge plus, showing elevation, calories burned and total distance along with the other screens showing speed, distance etc etc etc. Including the pace, and laps this will be a huge advantage for when I'm walking, jogging, running, hiking, backpacking, and snowboarding or skiing. Tons of features and super light weight and only uses 2 AA's.
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"Inexpensive, easy to use"
on by timetestPros easy to use, has backlight
Cons Manual is acceptable but could be better.
Summary This is a way better buy than the 201. The 201 can be hooked up to a computer but only with a "serial" cable not usb. The watch stores years of data anyway. It uses regular AAA batteries but you could buy rechargables and have the other "advantage" of the 201.
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Tried to use rechargable in the Forerunner 101 and the device would not function for more than a few seconds. Confirmed with Garmin that rechargable NMHI batteries will not work. -
"Best Fitness Computer on the Market"
onPros Great value for the money Easy to Use Useful Features Clear Display
Cons No Heart Rate Monitor
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