Suunto T3c Running Pack
- Stylish wristwatch-style heart rate monitor for running, cycling, and more
- Calculates needed intensity and duration of training to improve your condition
- Includes heart rate monitoring Comfort Belt and universal Foot POD for tracking running speed and distance
- Interference-free digital ANT transmission and coding
- Timing features include 50-lap stopwatch, dual time, date, and alarm
Product Description
By combining the Suunto t3c watch with the Foot POD in one valuable package, the Suunto Running Pack provides committed runners with heart rate and physiological data, as well as training effect, accurate speed, and distance information. The Suunto Foot POD attaches to the laces of your shoes and communicates to Suunto watch via wireless connection to determine and record your running speed and distance traveled. This compact device is light as a feather and won’t even be noticeable while you go for your run. The Suunto T3c running pack includes the Suunto t3c wrist training computer watch, Suunto foot pod and Suunto comfort belt. Suunto T3c Running Pack T3C-RUNNINGAmazon.com Product Description
Sleekly and stylishly designed, the Suunto T3c Heart Rate watch-style heart rate monitor is perfect as an everyday workout partner for active trainers. This package includes the T3c monitor as well as the Suunto Foot POD, which attaches to your shoelaces and is designed for highly accurate measurement while running.
The T3c can tell you how long you need to work out to reach the desired Training Effect goal at your current heart rate intensity. It also accurately measures the calories you burn in real time, records your training history in an internal logbook (up to 15 workouts), offers interference-free digital ANT transmission and coding, and provides PC compatibility to track your progress as your fitness increases. It has a water resistance rating of 30 meters (100 feet), enabling it to withstand rain and splashes of water, but not swimming.
It works in tandem with the included heart rate monitoring Comfort Belt, which has been improved by Suunto to perform and feel better during your activity. Traction strips keep the belt in place during intense workouts, plus you can unclip the heart rate module and toss the fabric strap in the wash for easy cleaning.
It also works with the included motion-activated Foot POD (Peripheral Observation Device), which records your speed and distance covered during your workouts. It features accurate data collection during both indoor and outdoor workouts by measuring each stride with built-in acceleration sensors and speed limit alarms alert you if you’re going above or below your preset limits. The T3c is also compatible with other Suunto POD accessories for measuring bike training or enabling you to view detailed performance reports on your PC.
Training Effect
The Training Effect function shows the degree to which an individual workout improves your aerobic fitness. More powerful than conventional zone training features, Training Effect tells you the quantifiable results of your workout.
If your workouts are too easy, your aerobic condition won’t improve. Likewise, if your workouts are too difficult, you run the risk of overtraining and hindering improvement. Between those extremes, it’s difficult to gauge the effectiveness of a workout on gut-feeling alone.
The Training Effect feature takes the guesswork out of working out, giving you real-time and post-exercise information about the effectiveness of your workout. It’s based on *EPOC (Excess Post-exercise Oxygen Consumption) measurements during exercise, combined with information about your current fitness level and exercise history. During exercise, Training Effect shows the real-time effectiveness of your workout. And after exercise, Training Effect displays the final degree to which a workout improved your condition.
Specifications:
- Running speed and distance function: Yes (with optional POD)
- Stopwatch: Yes
- Interval and warm-up timers: Yes
- Max number of split times in memory: 50
- Average and peak heart rate displays: Yes
- Heart rate limit alarm: Yes
- Adjustable target zones: Yes
- Memory capacity: 15 logs
- Workout summary: 6 months
- Total calories display: Yes
- Basic timing functions: Time, date, weekday, dual time
- Number of daily alarms: 1
- Selectable metric/imperial units: Yes
- Backlighting: Yes
- Button lock: Yes
- User replaceable batteries (watch and belt): Yes
- Low battery warning: Yes
- User replaceable strap: Yes
- Software: Suunto Training Manager Lite (downloadable)
- Heart rate and speed profiles on PC: From laps
- Cycling speed and distance: Yes (with optional POD)
- Cycling cadence: Yes (with optional POD)
- Altimeter functions: No
About Suunto
Suunto was founded in 1936 by outdoors man and a keen orienteering enthusiast, Tuomas Vohlonen, who had long been bothered by a problem: the inaccuracy of traditional dry compasses and their lack of steady needle operation. Being an engineer with an inventive turn of mind, he discovered and patented the production method for a much steadier needle, better readings, and a new level of accuracy.
By 1950 the company was exporting compasses to over 50 countries around the world, including Canada and the United States. In 1952, Helsinki was hosting the Olympic Games, and the torches carried to light the Olympic flame were Suunto products. The next step was improving the stability and accuracy of marine compasses. The first marine compass, the Suunto K-12, was launched onto the market in 1953. In 1957, Suunto started manufacturing hypsometers, which measure the height of trees.
In the 1960s, the compass range grew further and Suunto introduced its first diving compass–initiated by the divers themselves. A British sports diver attached a Suunto compass to his wrist and found that the device also worked underwater. Thanks to his feedback and initiatives, the new business category was found. Suunto’s exports and business grew steadily and Suunto then focused on combining its strength in precision mechanics with new skills in electronics. Accuracy, reliability, and ruggedness have been Suunto’s key values from the very beginning of the company history.
Today, Suunto is a leading designer and manufacturer of sports instruments for training, diving, mountaineering, hiking, skiing, sailing, and golf. True to its roots, Suunto is today the world’s biggest compass manufacturer. Prized for their design, accuracy and dependability, Suunto sports instruments combine the aesthetics and functionality of watches with sport-specific computers that help athletes at all levels analyze and improve performance. Headquartered in Vantaa, Finland, Suunto employs more than 500 people worldwide and distributes its products to nearly 60 countries. The company is a subsidiary of Helsinki-based Amer Sports Corporation with the sister brands Wilson, Salomon, Atomic, Precor, and Mavic.
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For the last probably 10 years I was a happy Amazon customer. That changed with my last Running Pack order. Amazon priced out the pack for $148.25. I found that a really great deal compared to other companies so I went ahead and bought it. The real seller of the product was `Watchsavings’ (or Jomashop) which sent me the product by UPS ground. But it turned out that they sent me the wrong product. So I called in and requested the running pack I ordered and what would be the best way to proceed. First of all, `Watchsavings’ told me that they don’t have the product al all and it was Amazon’s mistake they put it on their website for that “great deal”. They suggested that I send the wrong product back and order the pack instead from `Jomashop’ (was out of stock). Next thing was I called Amazon and they told me that it was Watchsavings’ product and I would have to deal with them! Great!! At that time I checked the Amazon website again for the T3 Running pack and now they offered it from another seller for $250, not really the amount I spent. What great situation: none of these two felt somehow responsible for the mistake or was able to deliver the product I ordered for the price I (of course) already paid. I sent the wrong delivery back to Watchsavings and got finally after one month my money back. I ordered the T3 running pack with another Internet seller, which was still cheaper that Amazon and provided an excellent service compared to Amazon or Watchsavings. I gave one star because I got my money back. Do not by from Amazon! Either they want to sell something they don’t have or they don’t feel responsible for the seller on their profile. I’m really, really disappointed with such a professional company!
Rating: 1 / 6
With the goal of training for the 2009 Walt Disney World Marathon, I sought a tool that would keep me informed during my workouts. This is not it. I read lots of reviews and also examined this item in person in a store. I purchased it hoping I would be able to navigate it’s controls more easily than other users since I consider myself technically adept. As other reviewers said (and I should have listened) this product is too difficult to operate and most importantly, the manual is unclear and incomplete.
To Amazon’s credit, the return process was remarkably easy! Full refund, postage paid, no questions asked. Thank you! Just be sure you keep ALL of your original packaging if you are as stubborn as me and decide to buy this. Otherwise, they will not likely take it back.
Subsequently, instead of choosing value as the deciding factor in picking my training tool, I chose quality. I wear a GPS enabled Garmin with a bezel/touch screen and love it. I wore it during training and as I ran and finished the WDW Marathon . I love it.
Good luck. And happy running.
Rating: 2 / 6