NY Times review and slide show of waterproof MP3 players
Former Member
Full article:
www.nytimes.com/.../20080403_PHYS_SLIDESHOW_index.html
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
After each run, I'll spend sometimes 30 min or more going over my pacing throughout, matching the places it slowed/picked up to what I was doing at the time.
Who was it that said SWIMMERS were obsessive? :)
I have never even kept a training log...I guess I know that I should, it just seems like too much WORK..
After each run, I'll spend sometimes 30 min or more going over my pacing throughout, matching the places it slowed/picked up to what I was doing at the time.
Who was it that said SWIMMERS were obsessive? :)
I have never even kept a training log...I guess I know that I should, it just seems like too much WORK..
