The Ultimate Garmin Forerunner 305 Page
This is a page dedicated to getting the best out of your Garmin 305 Forerunner. We have tried to put together a list of useful links to various websites and software that will help you get the most out of your Garmin. A lot of these links you will also find useful for various other Garmin models.
What is the Garmin Forerunner 305?
The Garmin 305 Forerunner is a sleek wrist-mounted sports performance trainer with high-sensitivity GPS receiver and heart rate monitor. Forerunner 305's courses feature lets you compete against previous workouts: you can compare your pace and heart rate to your past performance over the same run. You can also use Forerunner 305 to train for your next duathlon or triathlon with multi-sport workouts, a feature that lets you seamlessly transition between sports without resetting the unit, so you can use it for running, biking and more.
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SportTracks
One of the most useful pieces of software I have found for the garmin is the free SportTracks software. Coupled with a GPS receiver SportTracks will automatically track the distance, time and pace of your workouts. You'll be able to take a high level view and track your progress over time, or dive into the details of a specific exercise to analyze your pace, elevation, or heart-rate performance. Activities can be organized into categories, or summarized by location.
SportTracks supports many popular data import formats and allows you to easily export your exercise data for viewing in other software programs. You can even add activities manually and edit GPS tracks to correct for poor satelite reception or the dreaded mid-run dead battery, and much much more.
Some of the features in SportTracks:
- Excercise journal with device import, data import and manually entered activites.
- Support for multiple athletes and temporary routes or friend's activities.
- Weekly and monthly charts of exercise time, distance, pace and calories.
- Display of GPS routes with street maps, topographic maps and satellite imagery.
- Graphs of pace, elevation, and heart rate changes during an activity.
- Dynamic split time, distance and pace analysis.
- Integrated online weather forecasts.
- Fully user-definable categorization and grouping of activities.
- Editing of existing GPS routes and heart-rate data to correct for poor GPS reception.
- Equipment (shoe) mileage and use tracking.
- One-click integration with Google Earth, providing a way to fly around your route in 3D.
- Complete control of your data, stored on your PC.
- An innovative, quick-responding and intuitive graphical interface.
Export easily to MapMyRun.com
And best of all, the software is free for you to try.
Download a copy of SportTracks software for the Garmin 305 free from here
If you have any suggestions on anything else that you feel should be included on this page then please let me know.
Q. Why won't my Forerunner 305 turn on after charging?
A. If the Forerunner device has locked up during charging, it may need to be reset to power back on. To do this, please hold down the "Mode" and "Reset" buttons at the same time and then press the "Power" button to turn the Forerunner on.
Once the three buttons are released, the Forerunner should power on correctly.
Updating the unit's operating software is also recommended. Please download the WebUpdater software update tool to complete the software update.
If this key sequence or the software update do not resolve the lockup please call or email Garmin technical support for further assistance. Please click here for contact information.
More useful links...
- The Garmin 305 Forerunner Home Page
- Map My Run
- Runner's World 2008 Spring Marathon Schedules
- Download Google Earth
- Garmin Standard Training Centre
- The Garmin Forerunner 305 Specification
