Heart rate monitors - totally lost

[tygab]

I have the super basic polar, must be the f4 [I think of a few years ago]. And I love it. Gives me time & HR, and avg at the end. That's about it.

I got it a few years ago before I even really knew what to do with one. I was thinking of upgrading for a while this summer, lured by possibilities of more data to pour over, but it's so simple it just works. I am a techie by trade and vastly complicated gear does not phase me, but when I am out to run n bike, I don't want to fuss with the modes and buttons. Now I am pretty happy with the utter simplicity. It's bad enough I have to press like three buttons to start my cycleputer and I don't know what they all do once I am going .