I might break down and buy a HR monitor/GPS unit

[Pika]

We bought this one at Valhalla in vernon, it was less expensive than MEC ( which suprised me) in the end it was DH who pulled out his wallet- I think the price was about what you found though- you'll love it
ohhh and I did use it for cycling too- I just had it on my wrist not the bike- I did not purchase the optional cadence thing since my bike computer gives me all that info- this was good for HR % grade-and then of course downloading it to motionbased was sooo neat
Thorn- I won't mention to my husband that it would have been less expensive through amazon.... but what I found in the past is often by the time we do the exchange US to CAN then pay taxes duty postage etc it doesn't ever seem like a great deal- though 100.00 would have been worth it!

[kelownagirl]

I found it online in the States for $239 but with exchange, shipping, and unknown duty, it would cost more.