I wondered if anyone in the club had ever come across a sports watch that could be set to give a clear AUDIBLE alarm at key training metrics?

What I am looking for is a watch that could be set, relatively straightforwardly, to give an audible indication eg if a particular heart rate range was either exceeded or was not reached.

Also (ideally) clear audible signals that a particular run or cycle pace was being achieved.

And being greedy could pick up the Ant+ signal from a power meter and then translate the signal into an audible note to indicate whether a particular power range was being achieved.

I have only ever used basic sports watches for running and a power meter on the bike - so don't really know what might be available in the more high end gear so any experiences or advice you have would be appreciated.

To repeat though what I am interested in is a device that gives audible warnings - presuming though that the data from a session can be downloaded.

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I have a Tomtom multi sport, It's about 3 years old. It vibrates when I have achieved 50% of the distance that I have done and when I have 10% left. Mine hasn't got HR on it but it does have goals such as pace, distance and time that you want to train for. I only use it on the distance goals. The new ones may have an audible indication. In fact mine may, I just don't use mine to it's maxim potential 

Would a phone be any use? The Wahoo app can do lots of audible alerts, e.g. power and HR announcement every 450m, or when your heart rate zone moves out of range. It won't trigger an alert when your power moves out of range, although you could ask them to add it! Some more info here. I don't know what other apps can do.

Not all phones have Ant+ (iPhones don't, for example). So if your power meter is only Ant+ (no BTLE), you'd either need an Ant+ dongle for the phone or something to pick up the Ant+ and rebroadcast as BTLE (Wahoo RFLKT+ can do this).

The TomTom Spark 3/Runner 3 (they are both identical) with Music has some Bluetooth Audio Feedback:

http://download.tomtom.com/open/manuals/watch2015/html/en-gb/index....

It is currently on sale at TomTom:

https://www.tomtom.com/en_gb/sports/running-watches/gps-running-wat...

Thanks Sarah, Edward, Paul and Tobias

Paul are you planning to be at Brockwell Parkrun this Saturday? I know Haren and Sam B are planning a run and a nice dip in the Lido after running ;-) If you are around maybe we could pick your brains over coffee - assuming there are no issues with Peckham Parkrun results I should be over for 10.30?

What I am wondering is how easy it is to get heart rate feedback audibly while running through a phone - nothing too accurate but say if you wanted to run at around 150 bpm could you set your phone to audibly alarm if you went over 160 or below 140?

I'm fairly sure Garmin watches also vibrate when you are in the wrong HR zone etc

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