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Garmin Forerunner 305
The Garmin Forerunner 305 provides a complete solution for monitoring, storing, analyzing, and sharing a wide range of workout data. Its built-in GPS capability (including a high-sensitivity receiver that works well even under tree cover or in urban environments) keeps track of where you went, how far, and how fast, with no wires to clutter a bike, and no gadgets to place in a running shoe. The Forerunner 305 includes many customizable features and displays. Its personal computer connectivity lets you upload to computer or online-based digital training and route-sharing tools.
The Forerunner 305 is a serious tool for runners, cyclists, and other atheletic types. This gadget is ideal for the person who wants a tool that can help to effectively monitor the results of workouts. The lap-average pace presentation is extremely useful and you may even compete against your previous workouts for constant self-improvement. Not only does it record distance accurately, you can have it alert you when you have covered the distance you desire, thus freeing you from having to only run where the distance is already measured. This allows you to run anywhere you want to go.
In many ways, most of the GPS based devices all dump to GPX files and all do basically the same thing: they track where you went and the exact point in time you went there. From all that info you can do a lot of different analytical things. It's how you utilize the software and the data that really determines if it will be a useful tool in your training or racing.
Like most running watches (GPS or foot pod), it will give you your pace as you go along. If you’re in ‘run’ mode, it will show it to you in minutes per mile, if you’re in bike mode it will show it to you in MPH. These are obviously all changeable and switchable to metric. When in operation, the watch gets divided up into three or four quadrants to display information.
The pace meter overall does a good job in most conditions. If it does temporarily 'lose you', it will recalculate your pace/distance based on last known location. Meaning if you're traveling in a straight line (like a street) and you lose signal - it figures out where you most likely went and interpolates. You generally don't notice this on the watch itself unless you're constantly looking at it - and the software later on simply matches between the two points.
It is sooo much nicer to have the GPS on a bike compared to a normal bike distance computer. Not because you want to see a map during the bike ride itself, but because the post-ride fun. This is because you get to overlay it onto Virtual Earth afterwards and see yourself covering serious distance - it really helps to bring it all into perspective.
One other cool thing it does - particular useful for biking, is that it calculates your moving speed - as opposed to just your average speed.
The 305's display is all about choices. Using the unit's relatively easy to learn "mode," "enter," and "scroll" buttons, you can partition the display into as few as one large data display, or as many as four. When cycling, for example, keep an eye heart rate, current speed and elapsed time.
The Forerunner 305 comes with a data dock that plugs into a computer's USB port, and this permits you to upload all of your training data into Garmin's Training Center software, or online to the Motionbased website. Storing and analyzing your workout data using these excellent graphing and sharing tools is one of the key benefits of using the 305.
The unit comes with a wireless heart rate monitor strap, computer docking/charging station, a separate charger unit, and the Training Center software on CD. Setup and installation are smooth, but you will need to spend some time with the manual, getting accustomed to the button functions.
Pick your own 350 right now. After combining it with software, you'll find it's quite a blast to play with it and analyze data. By using it you'll be able to more accurately train and race. It's not only practical, it's real fun. You'll find the cadence meter to be hugely helpful in cycling, and the pace meter very useful for long runs.
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