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Suunto has just released a new series of watches called the T Series. All of them are heart rate monitors that track your calories burned and time in each training zone. The upper end watches work with foot and bicycle pods to track your mileage.

Only the t6c comes even close to doing all that I would want and the Suunto website is so sparse that I can’t even tell if the computer program would be anything near as good as the Nike+ site.

• New Suunto Training Series

Sure, the Nike+ doesn’t track my heart rate or use a GPS to locate my position, but it has a place where there are a lot of runners who can compete with me in challenges. It’s nearly impossible for me to find a group of runners in my hometown who are running exactly as fast and long as I am, but on Nike+, I can find a large group easily.

Right now, it looks like the Suunto t6c is about $400 and that only includes the heart rate monitor. I’d have to pay extra for a foot pod or GPS tracking device. At that price tag, the new Suunto series doesn’t even pique my interest. I’ll stick with my low tech Nike+ for now. Ironically, it’s still better.

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