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| Timex Ironman T5J985 Unisex Trail Runner Bodylink Heart Rate Monitor Watch | 
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| Brand: Timex
Discount Category: Sports
Department: Mens
Selling Price: $349.99
Buy New: $239.00
Potential Savings: $110.99 (32%)
New (9) from $239.00
Customer Ratings:  19 comments
Shipping Weight (pounds): 0.3
Dimensions (inch): 9.5 x 1.8 x 0.5
Warranty: One-Year Warranty
MPN: T5J985F5
Model: T5J985
UPC: 753048265220
EAN: 0753048268924
Release Date: July 23, 2007
Shipping: Eligible for Super Saver Shipping
Availability: Usually ships in 24 hours
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| Descriptions:
| • | Combines GPS location data with heart rate monitor for serious runners | | • | Provides latitude and longitude, altitude/elevation data; record up to 10 waypoints for Track Back | | • | Chest strap heart rate monitor provides target zones with alarm and time in zone | | • | 100-hour chronograph; 100-lap memory; 5 alarms | | • | Watch is water resistant to 50 meters (165 feet); up to 2-year battery life |
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Amazon.com Product Description
Combining GPS location data with heart rate monitoring, the Timex Ironman Trail Runner (model T5J985) is a great choice for serious and professional runners, providing latitude and longitude, altitude/elevation data, exact real-time/average/maximum speed, and pace calculation. It offers a stylish silver watch face accented with bright yellow, dark gray resin band with buckle closure, chest-strap heart rate monitor, and lightweight GPS receiver. Location features include the ability to record up to 10 waypoints, on-the-move compass directional heading, and a Track Back function to navigate you back to a selected waypoint. Speed and Distance features include tracking of your workout distance (with target distance alerts), continuous odometer for total distance for a workout or group of workouts, and a predictive finish time mode that uses total event distance and pace data. The heart rate monitor features include: - Target Zones: Preset your desired heart rate exercise zone. Alarm notification when you are not in zone.
- Average Heart Rate: Displays your average heart rate over a period of time.
- Time In Zone: Amount of time spent within your selected heart rate target zone.
- Recovery Heart Rate Timer: Measure your heart rate after a timed recovery.
- Max Heart Rate Zone Calculation: Automatically sets your five training zones; one manual zone.
- Digital Transmission: Timex's system protects your data from other heart rate monitors and most exercise equipment.
This watch also provides: - 3-line customizable display
- Summary Mode: review navigational, speed, distance and heart rate performance data at end of workout
- 100-hour chronograph with either lap/split in large digits,
- 100-lap memory with recall of Bodylink system data
- 2 linked interval timers
- 100-hour, 3-mode countdown timer
- 5 alarms for daily, weekday, weekend or weekly with 5-minute backup
- Up to 2 year battery life
- Included bike mount
The Indiglo night-light uniformly lights the surface of the watch dial using patented blue electroluminescent lighting technology. It uses less battery power than most other watch illumination systems, enabling your watch battery to last longer. The Night Mode feature allows you to illuminate the Indiglo night-light for 3 seconds with any button press, regardless of the mode or function. The watch is water resistant to 50 meters (165 feet)--suitable for swimming but not for diving--and the GPS sensor is splash resistant. All Timex heart rate monitor sensors have batteries that can be replaced by consumers without requiring them to be returned to the manufacturer.
Product Description
Accept no imitations or limitations. There is only one Timex IRONMAN* Triathlon?. Stylish enough for the weekend warrior, technical enough for the extreme athlete. Don't swim, bike, run, jump, climb, throw, or kick without one. FEATURES INCLUDE: INDIGLO? night-light; Water Resistant to 50m; Size: Extra Large; Dual Time Zones; One-Year Warranty; Alarms;2 Year Battery Life; Preset heart rate zones;Automatically set your 5 training zones;Measure recovery heart rate; Amount of time spent within selected zone; Heart rate display in %-of-max format; GPS functionality to provide latitude and longitude; Ascent and descent rates;Up to 10 waypoints; On-the-move directional heading; Navigate to selected waypoints.
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| Customer Comments: Read 14 more comments...
 Doesn't work in the mountains December 28, 2008
The heart rate monitor is very simple to use and works great. This instrument also tells time, but that's it. When skiing in the mountains, it just plain doesn't work. If you bet your life on the gps coordinates getting you back to the parking lot in fog, they would find tour new watch frozen to your inert body. I have a Garmin product that actually picks up satellite signals, this watch does not. Even on a mellow cross country outing, the gps fails 50% of the time, at best. I can't even imagine it working properly amongst high buildings.
 had troubles with it December 22, 2008
This is crucial information for not well satellite covered regions: this watch needs to contact at least TWO satellites to establish a GPS connection (I read that in the manual when I had already buy it... at least 2, and I'm not sure that maybe 3 are needed). Where I live, every other GPS device I know works fine, but this doesn't. If I travel some 200 miles north from where I live (a major Mexican city), the GPS works perfect... but not where I live (because above my head it seems that there's only one GPS satellite). So, I bought the watch, but although any other GPS watch my friends have work right here, this has never worked... so I've only used the HR monitor.
But precisely, yet another issue... the HR monitor has worked perfect, but after a year and a half, it has stopped working in a constant way. I changed the watch and monitor batteries, but still the same. When starting workout it gives a correct measure, but after a few minutes it locks in 240 bpm. I'm sure the contact isn't wrong (the sensors are humid enough), so there's no other explanation but that the watch has give it all, although I always take care of it very much so it doesn't get too wet, clean it properly, etc.
In the last month I did 2 Ironman's and 1 marathon, so I'm everyday totally depending of this kind of equipment to train and compete. I'm not seeing other alternative than to buy other different watch.
I see that most of the other posts talk wonders of this watch, so maybe it's true and my situation is an isolated one (that I just had bad luck with a fabric-details one), but even though I think it might be useful for others to report my particular use case.
 Great watch! October 24, 2008
Excellent watch! Very accurate GPS that tracks pace well and does not lose signal. As mentioned, it does take a few minutes to link up the GPS, but once it is linked up, it works perfectly. My only complaint is that it is a unisex watch - but the wrist strap is pretty big for a medium frame woman. As a woman, even the smallest size is a little bit loose. I contacted Timex to see if I could exchange the wrist strap for a smaller one, and apparently the wrist strap it comes with is the only one that fits on the watch. In the end I decided I liked everything else about the watch so much, that I didn't mind a little slipping around.
Just not very accurate October 24, 2008
4 out of 4 found this comment useful.
I have been using this product for the last month on marathon training runs. I find that the GPS is not very accurate and the distance measure tends to drift high. For example, on my last 20 mile run the GPS was off by about 1 1/2 miles; it was accurate for some of the trip but gave me readings too high on certain segments. (I was running along a river with little interference from trees or large buildings so I don't have an easy explanation). Other than that the heart rate monitor works fine and the watch functionality is good.
Love this item September 30, 2008
I haven't used the GPS locator yet but I have used the heart rate monitor several times and love it.
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