As I mentioned way back on the 1st of December last year, my watch stopped working. I wondered at the time if I should get a new watch or maybe even a heart rate monitor.
I finally made a choice.
I’ve gone ‘watchless’ for the last couple of months, relying on clocks and my mobile phone to tell me the time.
On Saturday morning I was in Rebel Sport looking at some cycling gear. I noticed a beaten up box with a watch/heart rate monitor inside. It was a Sigma Sport PC6, marked down from $160 to $50. That’s the cheapest heart rate monitor I’ve ever seen so I grabbed it.
It’s chunky and ugly, just like a hart rate monitor should be.
Whenever I’m wearing the transmitter strap around my chest I can tell whether I’m still alive or not. Aways a handy function.
I’m still to work out all the ins and outs of using a heart rate monitor in excersize but it’s already proving interesting watching the numbers as I ride to work and back.
Posted by Rodney Olsen
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There will be no stopping you now with your new training equipment! I also bought one a few weeks ago with some money I was given for my birthday, but returned it the next day. I found that heart rate monitors and wireless speedometers do not mix too well. I think the heart rate monitor was reading the revolutions of my front wheel? Either that or my heart rate changes incredibly rapidly as I speed up and slow down, ranging up to over 200 bpm!!