NY Times review and slide show of waterproof MP3 players
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By SARAH BOWEN SHEA
The New York Times
"SOME swimmers joke that the only way to fight the boredom of laps is to get a good song stuck in their heads. The first generation of waterproof MP3 players didn’t always offer sweet distraction, because the devices held too few songs and sometimes shorted out in water.
Now that second-generation MP3 players offer better technology, fitness swimmers can listen to Maroon 5 and the Bravery instead of recreating a song in their heads....
.....To gauge the feasibility of listening to music in the pool, Katie McClelland, 31, a swimmer with Dallas Aquatics Masters who has broken two FINA world records for amateur adults in *** stroke, tried four waterproof players and one case-headphone combo. “When I swim by myself,” she said, 'I could use the entertainment.'”
Slideshow:
#1: AQUAPAC MP3 CASE AND WATERPROOF HEADPHONES
#2: FINIS SWIMP3 V.2
#3: SPEEDO AQUABEAT
#4: NU TECHNOLOGY DOLPHIN 1GB WATERPROOF MP3 PLAYER
#5: INTOVA 256MB WATERPROOF MP3 PLAYER
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At the risk of exposing my geekyness, has anyone tried using an mp3 player as a pacing device? I'm thinking in terms of recording the desired stroke rate and splits or the send off times and turn times with maybe the time read out, so you could get a good idea of your time and stay on your intervals without straining to make out the clock through foggy goggles etc. It might make it easier to do interval sets without a coach too.
At the risk of exposing my geekyness, has anyone tried using an mp3 player as a pacing device? I'm thinking in terms of recording the desired stroke rate and splits or the send off times and turn times with maybe the time read out, so you could get a good idea of your time and stay on your intervals without straining to make out the clock through foggy goggles etc. It might make it easier to do interval sets without a coach too.
