nike tomtom vs garmin 405/405cx

how it compares to the garmin 405

front


back


compared to the nike sportband


the garmin 405 is wide on small wrists


the nike tomtom is even wider on small wrists


the garmin 405cx with velcro strap fits like a glove!


the nike tomtom time display is larger than the garmin but the garmin is pretty easy to read


garmin seems to locate satellites much faster, nike tomtom seems to take 5+ minutes


garmin allows you to see 3 (or up to 9 if you use 3 screens) fields of your choosing, nike tomtom allows 2 fields, the top field you can scroll thru by pressing buttons


garmin allows you to see your data when paused, nike scrolls thru the fields


garmin allows you to change your settings on the watch, nike you have to do on the computer. the only thing you can change on the watch is laps: on/off/manual or intervals on/off. also this screen stays on for a fraction of a second without interaction. backlighting also turns off almost immediately


nike loading screen seems to take forever but so does garmin when you're anxiously awaiting your run data


where you can administer data fields on the nike tomtom


where you can administer your intervals


PROS:
1. easy for an excited new runner to start logging miles and connecting with others on the nike site, dailymile, twitter and facebook
2. awesome battery life!
3. no extra cables! the usb built into the band is how you upload and recharge

CONS:
1. unable to customize fields and limited to only these fields: top scrolling: (real time) pace, distance, time elapsed, calories, time. large: elapsed time/lap elapsed time
2. unable to get average pace or lap pace. even garmin real time pace can be erratic but tomtom had me swinging from 18mm to 7mm depending on if I ran past a building
3. unable to set intervals on the fly
4. the fit is not very comfortable
5. for the price, just get a garmin on ebay! :)

Malibu Intl Marathon

the course

the elevation according to garmin vs. the site

the result: PR! 2:01:52
224 overall, 87 women, 14 age group, WOOT!

hammer time! YES!

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the latest thing I've signed up for, racevince. check ME out! what it doesn't include are the 3 10ks I've done, the virtual half, and the surf city marathon I signed up for but didn't make it to ;)

that's it?

nike+ is the pits

since I was so rudely denied from running in the nike women's half marathon again I signed up for the nike+ women's virtual half marathon. there is precious little information on it and no contact information for further questions. I called nike corporate and they gave me nike+'s number since of course that isn't on the website either and guess what, it's a fax machine. ::squealing noise in my ear:: thanks, that clears everything up!

"awesome in pants!" - wilw

nike amp sucks

when it works it's great! but that's maybe 50% of the time. not enough to out weight how much it SUCKS

here are a few examples of what makes me lose my mind and look like a crazy schizo on the street:
1. next doesn't work, can't skip awful slow song, repeatedly hitting amp and holding arms in weird position while looking down and getting more and more frustrated
2. pause/play doesn't work, can't pause when I'm waiting at a light, repeatedly hitting amp and getting more and more frustrated that my min/mile pace is getting creamed
3. pause/play doesn't sync with nike+, after I hit the center button to start I immediately hit pause and do my stretches, then when I start running I hit play, music starts, nike+ hasn't, 5 miles later my run didn't get recorded
4. play/pause doesn't work, at a light, hit pause, maybe it actually paused, light turns green, hit play, hear "ending workout" GRRRRRR then I have to fumble with the ipod and quickly try to get up a basic mode to finish with
5. above scenario happens and nike amp actually puts pebble to sleep so now I have to reboot the ipod, not convenient in the middle of a run

I'm gonna switch to garmin which is way more accurate and way more informative and not deal with nike at all, clearly profits and not quality is all they care about. I've known that for years, I'm just a sucker for new gadgets.

2nd best weekend ever

what's a little mild hypothermia among friends? see how wet we are? it's not even 7am yet. fast forward to 11:30 and jen was blue, I couldn't perform simple tasks with my hands, and claudia took an hour long hot shower when we finally got home at 1pm. good times, good times :)

ipod nano [PLUS] nike+ [PLUS] nike amp = zero support

Sure the nike+ is cool, motivating even, but don't expect any kind of tech support should you need it. If you call the number on the nikeplus.com website 800-379-6453 you get a menu, "press 2 for nike+ support", only that connects you to Apple. 5 of the people at the Apple extension that I talked to hadn't even heard of nike+ ... soooo that's helpful, methinks that menu is a touch misleading. If you "press 3 for all other nike products" you get Nike but 5 of the people I talked to said nike+ is put out by Apple and to talk to them. Why the masochistic need to talk to someone about my nike+? It's supposed to last for 1000 hours or 5 pairs of running shoes, mine lasted for approximately 66 hours. Walking around to activate the sensor didn't. I couldn't figure it out. And none of the loophole idiots at the 800 number ("your nano is past its warranty, you don't qualify for phone support" "nike what?" "talk to nike" "it's put out by apple, talk to apple") would help. So after I lost an 8 mile run, I went to the Apple store. I was prepared to make a scene because my track record with Apple has been,"oh it's broken? fuck you, buy a new one" (iPhone). So after pleading my case of being on the phone for an hours being tossed back and forth between Apple and Nike they exchanged my kit for a new one. Joy. I get home, plug it in, everything works, I start to go for a run, hit pause on my nike amp to unpause my nano and start my run and I hear "work out ended" or whatever the lady says at the end. So I pull out my nano and to restart only I get the "walk around to activate your sensor" and it wasn't working. AGAIN! Well guess what I figured out after I rebooted my nano and the sensor was activated: the nike amp sleeps the sensor. That means my sensor wasn't dead and I didn't need to exchange it for a new one - way to go tech support! ::sarcasm:: Hopefully this will help someone googling this same problem since the nike amp is so new and isn't being discussed yet. pfffffffff