GPS Running

Form meets function with running gps Garmin’s next-generation watch, sleek and stylish line of personal trainers – the Forerunner 305. Don’t let its good look fool you. This taskmaster will continually push you to do your personal best. The Forerunner 305 combines all of the popular features found in the 301 along with a high-sensitivity GPS receiver, new courses feature, and robust wireless heart rate monitor for optimal performance.

Designed for athletes of all levels, this running partner and personal trainer has one goal in mind – a better you. It continuously monitors your heart rate, speed, distance, pace and calories burned so you can train smarter, more effectively. It tracks your every move with a super-sensitive GPS that even works on tree-covered trails and near tall buildings.

Product Specification :

GPS Type :Running
Routes :50
Waypoints :100
Max Battery Life :10 hrs.

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Running GPS Suunto T6c Watch (Fall 2009) – The T6c Heart Rate Monitor by Suunto accurately records how your body performs during exercise, enabling later analysis and planning with Suunto Training Manager. By measuring your exercise load and relating it to your personal fitness level, Suunto t6 tells you if the session improved your condition or not. Features: Time mode: includes functions such as time, date and alarm. In addition to time and date, displays either day, seconds or dual time Alti/Baro mode: displays data on either altitude and related parameters in Alti or weather data such as barometric pressure and temperature Baro Training mode: stopwatch functions, such as lap time and interval time, and heart rate data. Offers control functions as well as logbook Speed/Distance mode: available for use with an external speed and distance sensor. Displays speed and distance information and offers control functions and alarms Heart rate belt uses error-free ANT transmission technology Compatible with following wireless Peripheral Observation Devices (PODs)*) Foot POD, attached to the shoe, measures speed and distance while running gps. Combined with the heart rate data, it gives you all the info you need from your run Bike POD combines speed and distance functions with the detailed heart rate analysis of the Suunto t6, making it one of the most advanced training tools ever developed for biking GPS POD employs the Global Positioning System to track speed and distance PC POD is a wireless USB link for PC. It enables real time heart rate detection with PC directly from the heart rate belt. (Downloading from Suunto t6 still works with cable only.) PC interface software + cable Water resistant to 30 m (100 ft)

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My team and I want to make running gps somewhat enjoyable. What can we do to achieve this?

Note: We have various school rules we must follow.

We are not allowed to:

Run without shirts

Run off campus

Run slow (GPS watches from coach)

iPods are frowned upon due to people not listening and going varius directions without the team

Our course has almost NO trees and gets very hot. We have one section with about 25-30 m of trees and it is a very steep trench like thing.

What sort of things can we do to make running more enjoyable?

Your coach has you gps’d? That rocks… wish I could afford that. Have you tried follow the leader (some call it leap frog)? How about running while exchanging shirts? And my personal favorite, most annoying sing-a-long (everyone gets to pick a song on the run and everyone else has to sing along).

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I’m looking for a good GPS running watch. These are the kind that tell you exactly how far you’ve gone, how fast, etc. using the GPS satellites.

I’ve seen a couple that are pretty damn big, I’m sort of a small guy. I have skinny wrists and only weight 125 lbs, so I really don’t want to lug a big thing around? If found another one that was a small watch, but you had to strap another thing on your arm to receive the signal?

…I don’t want to mess with a foot pod and I don’t need a heart rate monitor with it. So, which one should I get?
Are 305 and 205 the same size?

I have a Garmin Forerunner 305 which has the heart rate monitor. They make the 205 which does not have heart rate. I admit the unit is a bit clunky looking but I honestly never notice it while running. I love mine, it has helped to substantially reduced my PR in the full and 1/2 marathon.

Cheapest place I have found it for sale is in Amazon (check banner prices list on the right side). I would recommend the unit with heart rate. That will help to to truly maximize your training.

Good luck

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