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Before getting a Garmin, my previous way of tracking runs was to use a Polar 6 heart rate monitor (to track calories burned and also get a sense of how hard I was working) and use the RunKeeper app on my iPhone, which I always take with me on runs (for the music.) I thought this was a “good enough” system because the Garmin was just way out of my price range. Well, then Amazon had this huge sale on the 305 and I’d gotten some money for the holidays, so I decided to give it a shot.
Here’s what I love:
-the accuracy of the mapping
-being able to see on a clear display my exact pace, heart rate, distance and time spent running (kind of hard to do that with an app when you wear your iPhone in an armband.
Here’s what keeps me from throwing a parade in the Garmin 305’s honor:
-it’s clunky
-the calories burned part is just based on your weight and distance, not your heart rate (even though it will DISPLAY your heart rate) which can’t be as accurate as the Polar monitor. The fact is, I was the same weight six months ago and ran the same distance, but I burned a lot more calories then because I wasn’t as seasoned a runner; the more you do something, the easier it becomes and the fewer calories you burn, so the idea that I could burn 350 calories for a 3 mile run (my Polar 6 would show me burning 250-275 for the same distance) without sprinting the whole way seems off to me.
-I don’t find it that easy to use. I needed to have a few friends show me the basics. But I’m not that tech savvy. Still, in an age of touch-screen everything, this technology feels very DOS-like to me.
I still am thrilled that I purchased this! And I bring it on every run.
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