This week the Suunto Review prizes were dispatced to the 5 winners. Each winner received a Suunto t3c HRM Training Computer worth £120 each!
Follow the link below to read their reviews.
Winning Suunto Customer reviews
Here is what several of them had to say.
Ian Sutcliffe
A couple of days ago i got an email from Jason at Wiggle – not the normal ads that tell me whats on offer this month but a BIG surprise to find I’d been selected as one of the 5 winners of a Suunto T3C as a result of my review on my Elite Chrono Fluid turbo trainer !
Its a surprise as I’m not the sort of bloke that wins anything – not even a tenner on the lottery. In fact, i think the last time i won anything i was about 8 years old at the school tombola and even then it was probably a small bag of sweets or a jar of jam…
Today it arrived and to say I’m chuffed to bits is an understatement – i haven’t had one of these before and having tried it out on the bike and trainer its a great aid to my training . Now all i need is the speed pod and maybe a cadence one…
Better check out Wiggle and get one on order ;-)
Thanks again to everyone on the Wiggle team and Suunto !
Iain
Alice Elliott
I’m delighted to have been selected by Wiggle to receive the Suunto t3c for my review of the Adidas Adistar jacket. I’m just putting together my Christmas wish list on Wiggle’s website so that I have all the best clothes for running in this winter. The Suunto t3c will be a brilliant addition and greatly enhance my training, helping me to achieve my new goals for 2010. Thanks Wiggle!
Tim Zimmerman
So I was eating my Hummus and various Greek ruffage I had decided to make that evening after my run. I consider myself an aggressive amateur with a height handicap of 6 foot 3 (190cm for everyone not in the US) and it tears up my knees (cycling is my forte). Having the good fortune of a very cute (and very quick, though I’m sure the pace wasn’t even breaking a sweat for them) pacer to try and keep up with for the duration of my workout, led to my best pace yet achieved of 7:54 minute mile. I had gone sub 8 minute mile, this was big for me, big in the same way I am big- height I mean… not fat (much), just tall.
So a good recover shake was in order, a good meal, and several acceptable beers that are available in my small town (not Busch-Miller-Coors garbage, yuck). So over the course of the next hour I was preparing and enjoying my delicious dinner, and two beers (most likely demolishing my progress….) going through my bookmarks. Checking the weather, the blogs, the webcomics, and the email: spam, spam, spam, get a bigger pen15… spam, something from Wiggle. Whats this? I won free stuff? Are you sure this isn’t spam… surely you jest… What follows the discovery of winning a fairly nice HRM is me giggling like a fairy at my good fortune. Fortunately no one was around to witness my moment of weakness.
I was not only ecstatic about winning a nice piece of training equipment, I was relieved. Allow me to elaborate: Recently my crew has been committing mutiny against their captain. My very nice headlamp of three years decided to stop working in such a way that it would not stop working. I had to disconnect the battery pack from the light to turn it off, not an easy task considering the robustness of the connection. I sent it in for repairs, no more early morning workouts before the sun rises. My cassette on my road bike has become so worn that it has begun jumping and skipping hard when I am mashing up hills, robbing my momentum and taking the fun out of the masochism that is road biking. The pads and fitting mechanism on my helmet has become separated from the helmet creating a very dangerous helmet that could fly off my head while the cinch straps stay firmly in place, so it will effectively become one of those silly leather helmets of the days of old.
My relief originated because I knew I would soon have a new gizmo to play with, that would most assuredly function properly, till I abuse it into submission. Which is something I can guarantee will happen eventually. Nothing stands between me and the frustration of dealing with home brew repairs or giving the warranty department a headache.
Thanks,
Tim Zimmerman
David Bishop
I’d like to thank my family and friends, my English teacher, Internet provider and the teams at Wiggle and Suunto, without whom I wouldn’t be receiving this great prize….
Go back five days before this award winning acceptance speech and there I was, with aching limbs, a temperature of 39, a resting heart rate of 118bpm and flashing lights when I closed my eyes. Competition fever had been running high. It actually turns out that I had swine flu, which would better explain some of the symptoms, however this is not to say that entering the Wiggle competition and waiting for the outcome wasn’t exciting. What I can say is that winning one of the Suunto watches has given me a much needed boost in my recovery from the dreaded “S” word and as I don’t yet have a watch to help me in my training then this is a double whammy of a prize. Furthermore, I am supposed to be running the Abbey Dash 10k on the 22nd November and the Suunto heart-rate monitor will give me peace of mind to give it a go and be confident that I can keep an eye on my condition! In all seriousness, thank you Wiggle and thank you Suunto.
Dave
Ian Harper
When I seen the competition was running I thought “yeah as if I have a chance of winning that”. But I stepped up my reviewing a bit and even entered the top ten reviewers for a while. But the main reason for doing the reviews was not to win the competition, that was soon forgotten. I quite often find myself relying on reviews by others when parting with my cash and thought it is only right to leave my own reviews to help others out.
Having looked at the reviews for the t3c it looks like I’ve won a good product and with intentions of picking up some running over the winter when I’m on the bike less this will spur me on that bit more and be a bit more focused in my effort. I’m really looking forward to getting my mits on it and giving it a try out.
Ian
