The Fitsense FS-1 Speedometer is a good fitness monitor for readers who want a fairly sophisticated speed and distance monitor, but don't need to collect extra data like GPS coordinates or heart rate. The FS-1 Speedometer consists of a foot pod which acts as an accelerometer, and a watch that collects data from the foot pod and computes pace and distance covered.

The Fitsense foot pod seems similar to the foot pod that comes with the Nike Triax Elite. The difference between the Fitsense and the Triax Elite is that the Fitsense does not include a heart rate monitor or a way to uplink data to your PC, although those features are available as add-ons directly from Fitsense.

The advantage of the Fitsense FS-1 is that its modules can be purchased separately. This is a benefit to those athletes who are not sure that they want to get as deep into the data as some of the true fitness geeks do.

I think the Fitsense FS-1 is a good fitness monitoring alternative for many runners and walkers. It isn't as heavily marketed as products from Polar, Timex, and Nike, but, it is competitively priced and is designed to be a modular system.