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I recently started running to keep in shape. There is a park near-by my appartement, so I decided I would buy one of these to keep track of my steps, calorie burn and distance.
This item seems to keep pretty accurate track of steps and distance. I used mapmyrun.com to measure how much distance I would run by jogging the perimeter of the park. It told me it would be 2.3 miles. I put in my stride length as per the instructions and went off and ran around the park. When I was done the Omron told me I had gone 2.15 miles. That’s pretty close! Well over 4,000 steps to do it.
So as far as accuracy is concerned, as long as you correctly enter your stride length the Omron will be pretty close.
Every time since I have used it on the same path I get consistent results.
It has nice features as well with the clock and daily tracker history for 7 days.
As long as I dont loose it, it seems like it will work well for a while. (It comes with a clip that sometimes has popped off my belt, but there is also a ’safety string clip’ you can attach)
And it was cheap!
Bling Gems and Rhinestones
Eoin Colfer has earned my undying admiration: He writes a truly entertaining and unique youth novel. Artemis Fowl is complex, it’s unpredictable, it’s imaginative, it has some gruesome descriptions, and it is really, really good.
Colfer’s focal point is the wanna-be evil boy genius. He’s all genius, but he can’t quite bring himself to be truly evil, and the conflict in character is fascinating to read. Colfer latches on to a real problem that so many youth identify with, sadly–the absentee parents for reasons that even they can’t always help. Although Colfer acknowledges this issue, he doesn’t preach, he just lets it be, and allows Artemis to make his own mess and dig his way out.
Colfer’s imaginative LEP unit and Foaly are great fun to read. I can’t wait to get into the second novel, and I would not hesitate to recommend this series to any upper elementary/middle school aged reader, either in years or at heart. 
Order the series without reserve and enjoy!
Bling Gems and Rhinestones