Editorial Product Review:Item Description:Spend more time on your pace and less time keeping track of it with the Triax Speed 300. The big numbers show you your total time, lap time or both with the push of a button. Storing laps is easy and the watch face is angled to fit comfortably around your wrist. 300-lap chronograph. Battery hatch on back plate. Co-molded polyurethane strap. Convertible display and data mode. Five-segment interval timer. Mineral glass crystal. One-touch backlighting. 100m water resistance.
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Interface changes from previous versions
I have used Nike watches for all of my run timing for many years. I have been very happy with the previous versions that I've had except for one thing - they are designed so that you can't really replace the battery on your own. That means every time I need a new battery I have to go to the Fast Fix place in the mall and pay a third of the price of the watch just to get a new battery put in.
So when I saw the New Nike Triax Speed 300 on the web site with the feature that it had a battery compartment for easy replacement, I was sold. However, now that I've had the watch for a while, I am disappointed in a number of the other changes that they made in how it operates -to the point that I am thinking about pulling my old watch out of the drawer and heading for the mall.
Changes I don't like:
- The light for the dial. In my previous version, you could press and hold the light button and then any subsequent buttons of any kind that you pushed would cause the light to come on. That's great for when I am running in the dark. Every time I took an interval, the dial would light up and I could see the time. The new Triax dropped that feature. Now every time you want to light it up you have to hit the light button. So that means multiple button presses each time I want to take an interval in the dark.
- The old watch had a way to set it so every button push would cause an audible beep. That's a nice feature so that you are sure you hit the lap button, etc. The new one has that as well, but for some strange reason they tied that to the feature that has the watch beep every hour. I don't want to have the watch beep at the top of the hour as that is way to Geeky for me, but there is no choice.
- For the data saving part of the new watch they eliminated recording the date and time with the run. I tend to save up a week or two's worth of runs and then copy the data into my spreadsheet. It was easy when the dates were there to remember which day that was, what loop I took, etc. Now it is much more of a guessing game.
That's it, pretty minor stuff I guess, but I really liked the way the old watches worked and really got used to the way they operate.
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split/total time feature defective
"The big numbers show you your total time, lap time or both with the push of a button."
This description isn't completely true. The total time is not visible after hitting the split button (only the last split is visible).
