Looking for a simple Heart Rate Monitor

[Sb.Reno]

All I want is a HRM with HR and stopwatch/time up at the same time. It also needs to be relatively visible, so when my eyes are in the back of my head at 200bpm I can still read it.

I had a sigma HRM and it was driving me crazy. I had to have the speedometer working or it would turn off. It would also randomly change the time to another bit of data and I would have to click the little tiny buttons on it while burying myself. I ended up returning it to REI.

I am guessing that a watch type HRM will be the only one that has what I want. I was looking at: SETTE!
Unless someone else has a suggestion, I am going to order one of those.

[megancheung]

I've had 2 Polars and liked them both. I have the FT7 (I think) now and it has most of the functions you are interested in, and as an addition there is a website where you can track your workouts. I did not opt for the version that syncs with the computer, so I have to enter in my data manually.

Oh, and the first Polar I had was fine, but one of my grandkids used the watch part and lost it --- so I had to replace.