Mona's 305 Style

Today Total: 11k
Week Total: 11k
Month Total: 89k
Year Total: 801k

The new toy arrived yesterday - oh joyous day ;-)

Can't have a new toy and not play with it so I headed out around Canada Bay for a Mona's Fartlek. My pacing was much better than last week and most of the faster efforts were in between 4.10 & 4.20 pace - the exception being a couple of the shorter efforts at the back end which were a bit quicker. My goal is to get the faster efforts sub 4.00 pace.

I used the HRM with the 305 - I haven't done much with a HRM so I was a little in the dark about what to program as my MHR but took a punt on 190. The Garmin measured a 189 towards the end so I might be in the ball park (though that could have been spurious - haven't downloaded it yet to analyse properly - I suspect 190 might be a smidge high) - average HR for the faster efforts was between the high 160's & low 170's - which from a perceived effort point of view was uncomfortable but not flat stick.

Now the important bit!

Rationalisations (post road test) for a buying a 305 from the perspective of a GPS tragic (I now own four):

- It is way more comfy
- It looks better :-)
- It is RED :-) :-)
- It is definitely quicker getting a satellite fix, can even get a fix from inside the house (oh joy, oh joy)
- All 3 screens are fully customisable, not just with what you want to see but also the number of data fields
- Their is a greater choice of data to display eg the GPS accuracy grabbed my attention as  a neat but probably useless addition ;-)
- The new course feature that allows you to race a previous result for a particular run looks good (itching to try)
- The alerts and beeps seem to sound louder and a higher pitch so should be a little easier to hear around traffic etc
- There are enhanced navigation features for nav geeks (like me)

And did I mention it is RED :-)

Love it!