Courtenay Brown

My watch/heart-rate monitor saga seems to be never ending!!

I have blogged about it several times but just to get everyone up to speed… Over the past 10 months I have gone through ~4 Timex Ironman heart rate monitors, they all had to be warrantied for one reason or another. There is still one outstanding watch on warranty, but it’s been about a month since I sent it in and I haven’t gotten a new one so I think Timex has officially cut me off, at least for that string of watches.

So last month, I decided to pony up the big bucks for a hardy Polar RS100, mostly because Polars are a lot more reliable but also because it has a 2 year warranty rather than the 1 year warranty like Timex.

Sigh.

Then at 5430 on August 10, I won a Timex Ironman watch (not a HRM watch, just the regular kind). Score!, I thought. Now I have a nice little watch to wear when I don’t need the HRM!

Six days later, it broke. I wore it in the pool in Petaluma because their clock situation is pretty lame, I didn’t push any buttons on the watch but nevertheless it took approx. 200 yards for the face to fill up with water and the watch to go blank.

So I sent it in for warranty, and put my bulky-but-sturdy Polar back on.

Now today I see that my Polar has a broken button and the rubber plastic is warping off the head of the watch and it’s doing this random beeping thing. Are you kidding me?!!? I just got off the phone with Polar, of course they said “just send it in for warranty!”

So I own 3 watches and every one of them is out on warranty. I don’t even wear them all the time, and that one day in Petaluma is the only time I have swum wearing a watch.

From now on, I am just making up my own time .