Brunton Atmospheric Data Center Summit

The Brunton Atmospheric Data Center (ADC) Summit is a pocket-sized unit housing a team of savvy miniature weathermen. They work together to give you an array of amazing weather info—more accurate than your local news! Trusting the local weatherman is a dicey affair when you're deep in the backcountry—particularly in Brunton's mountainous home state of Wyoming. Fickle weather and microclimates can wreak havoc on your backpacking, skiing, or climbing trip. But the ADC Summit tracks the climate exactly where you are, reporting on an incredible array of conditions: altitude, temperature, wind chill, wind speed, and barometric pressure. It even calculates trends and forecasts the coming 12-hour's weather! If the barometer drops, the ADC Summit features a storm alarm—a sweet feature if your view of incoming weather is blocked by the peak you're trying to summit. An altitude alarm tells you when you've broken a set altitude when stumbling up Colorado's Fourteeners, and a ski run counter is a fun feature on the slopes. Standard features like time, day, and date are included, along with a chronograph and race timer. An electroluminescent backlight lights up the Brunton ADC Summit's large LCD display for easy reading. And when you get back home, download your weather data to your PC with the included infrared communication port.

$159.00

Training Tips

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Heart monitors are useful for knowing when you are in the right zone for your training efforts. If you understand what your maximum heart rate is, you can set up your monitor to beep at you when you exceed the high or low range of your heart rate for the type of workout you are doing.

Cross training gives your body a chance to recover while still exercising. If yesterday has a hard run day up and down hills, then today's bicycle ride gives your aching knees a well deserved break.

Anaeroic threshold is when lactic acid starts to build up in your body as your muscles are not getting the oxygen they require. This threshold is typically expressed as a percentage of your VO2 max - the amount of oxygen per kilogram of weight that a person can use in converting fuel to energy. Elite athletes threshold might be as high as 90% of VO2 max.