NEW YORK -- Even if you didn't make the cut for this year's Olympic Games in Greece, you can train like a world-class athlete with pocket-sized electronics that deliver a pumping music beat while keeping track of your rising pulse rate.
These gadgets, many of which pull double duty as a radio, music player or regular timepiece, can act as part-time coach and motivator shouting out numbers on the distance you have run or cycled, and indicating that your breaststroke needs work.
For decades, joggers have toted portable radios to avoid boredom. Now, between choruses of a digital recording of Paul McCartney's "Band on the Run," the MP3RUN, developed by Nike and Philips Electronics, can report the distance run and the pace through the wearer's headphones.
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