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I got the Forerunner 305 to track primarily speed and heart rate for outdoor inline speed skating. I’ve had it about 3 weeks and so far it’s worked great. The GPS reception is probably the main feature of interest, since it’s just a HRM/timer without that. Outdoors the reception is fine. I’ve never lost reception outdoors. The rest area where I work out has a small (maybe 15×15 foot) metal shade, and my 305 even holds reception there in the shade, where people with the prior model have to take it off to avoid having to go through the satellite acquisition sequence all over again. But indoors, it’s pretty much no-go. It gets spotty reception in my house (wood house with composite shingles) and in any kind of commercial building with metal in the roof or structure, it’s no go at all. So if you were thinking of something like walking the mall and using this to measure the distance, it probably won’t work for that. The HRM has always worked 100% for me. I don’t regret not getting the 405 or 310 – I’ve heard the 405 is hard to control with sweaty fingers, and the 310 seems better, but not *that* much better considering the cost. There are rumors of a 505 in the works . . .
When I got my Forerunner, the first thing I did was take it for a little ride in the car to decide whether I would believe the speed and location data. It seems pretty accurate on speed, but since it’s computing the speed from an average of your prior locations, it takes about 10 seconds of constant speed for the number on the display to be exactly right. If you’re speeding up or slowing down, the value on the watch will be lagging your real speed, but you can get the real speed in retrospect when you download the data. Location also seems very accurate – usually within about 10 feet. Altitude info is not that great – the same location can vary by 50 feet or more, but typically that’s not as important – your desktop software can correct for that.
A huge part of the experience is the software rather t
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