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Garmin 305 - Bring The Best Of You
This isn't just marketing-speak; the Garmin 305 is the most accurate, most reliable wrist-mounted performance and GPS tracking tool. Yes, it's that good. While no device this compact can do everything (yet), the Garmin 305 pushes the boundaries of what is possible from something strapped around your wrist. The Garmin 305 model includes wireless heartrate monitoring and it can also be connected to Garmin's wireless bicycle speed and cadence sensor. Garmin 305 is the best selling GPS receiver in the world.
The Garmin 305 GPS System combines form and function. This combination running partner and personal trainer is designed for athletes of all levels. Garmin 305 features a high-sensitivity GPS receiver, new courses feature, and robust ANT wireless heart rate monitor for optimal performance. The super-sensitive GPS tracks your every move, even working on tree-covered trails and near tall buildings. The heart device monitors your heart rate, speed, distance, pace and calories burned so you can train smarter, more effectively. These taskmasters will continually push you to do your personal best.
GPS Performance
The big news about the Garmin Forerunner 305 is that it features an integrated, high-sensitivity SiRFstar III GPS receiver. What does this mean? It means that the Garmin Forerunner 305's ability to both track, and maintain a lock on, your position is better than anything before it. After an intial battery charge, the tester had the Garmin 305 on his wrist and was tracking speed and distance with GPS satellites within 3 minutes. The next time we used the Garmin 305, satellite acquisition was nearly instantaneous. A run through dense trees didn't faze the unit either; tracking remained true and steady. Performance on a bike was equally impressive. Whatever witchcraft has been cooked up by the designers of the SiRF technology, we like it!
While the Forerunner 305 isn't billed as a GPS navigation device, it does have some rudimentary mapping, waypoint marking, and routing capabilities. In addition to marking locations along your journey, you can zoom in or out of a simple map that displays your current direction and path. There's also a "go to location" menu feature that routes you back to your starting location, or to any location you have defined. Once you have defined several locations, you can save this information as a route, allowing you to travel the same path in the future. As you'll see below, the 305's new "Courses" feature gives you new levels of control over how you define your favorite runs and rides.
Training Fuctions
The Garmin Forerunner 305 is first and foremost a training tool, and its ability to organize a ton of data types into a user experience that is intuitive and simple is no small feat. Whiz-bang technology aside, if you can't use this watch and make it a natural part of your exercise routine, it's worthless. When it comes to these factors -- and here's the take home message on the Garmin 305 -- this device is successful where many other devices fail.
The heart and soul of the Garmin 305 can be found on the data screens, which give you real-time information about all aspects of your workout. In fact, the Garmin 305 can display a dizzying array of data, such as calories burned, distance, elevation, grade, and heading, as well as multiple lap and pace modes. The Garmin 305 adds the ability to track heartrate, lap heartrate, average heartrate, and heartrate zones via the included coded heartrate chest strap. With the purchase of a separate wireless cadence and speed meter, you can also track bike performance data.
Thankfully, the device makes it easy to define how much or how little data you want to view during a workout. You can arrange the data that's most important to you and then make that data appear front and center on the device. Indeed, within a few minutes of skimming the manual and fiddling with the device setup, you'll have your most important data displaying just the way you like it. The ability to display heartrate is a big plus, too, as it's a fairly good indicator of excercise output, fatigue, and fitness level. The Garmin 305 Forerunner has all the heartrate functions you'd expect from a full-function monitor, including the ability to set target zones and alerts to maximize the effectiveness of your workouts.
Garmin's Virtual Partner function was one of the great feature of previous Forerunners and they've decided to keep a good thing going with the Garmin 305. If you're the type that performs best when you've got a competitor egging you on, you'll love this function, as it allows you to set up virtual running or biking companions that compete against you.
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