The "sqwaking" isn't nearly as bad as my husband's bike computer, good night I want to take a hammer to that thing. I may leave it on once I set my own zone. I run by myself and stopped wearing headphones for now (I like the sounds of the park) so it would be a good tool. Plus with the kids playing football/baseball and the park being on the semi-busy loop, there is even more noise to drown it out and many times last night I couldn't even tell it was beeping even though I was over my zone the entire run (oops).

The silly part? I had no idea what zone they were using, so I thought it was beeping because I was under my zone. lol I am so eager to see the times of my workouts, I brought the strap to wear commuting home. I will have to figure out the pause feature for doing organized rides with rest stops or maybe just let it go as a low period, don't know.

There is a book at REI for $18 might check it out to see if I want to buy it, otherwise trial and error will work for me.