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Garmin301/305 Data - What do you do with yours?
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All you Garmin 301/305 users, after your training session you rush to your computer, plug in and Wow! Fabulous graphs and lots of data... but what do you do with it? The supplied Training Centre software has its limitations! How do you get round them?
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Fishy. Sporttracks does appear to fill in some of the gaps in Garmin TC, the "athlete" history pages seem part of the answer. Currently I have to retype the data into an Excel spreadsheet in order to get the overview of my training that I find most useful. This give me the ability to add my own data as well. TC allows you to compare any session with any other, but only one at a time. Sporttracks weekly and monthly views are good but not graphicly displayed.
My Garmin 301 will tell me my pace while I am running although several seconds behind, so sudden accelerations do not track well on screen, but show up on the graph after the data is uploaded. For steady pace work then great. Works off road where you cannot clock a route by car, but then the garmin also measures the distance run. With one you can always see how far you have run how long for and how fast. The new 205 I think it is does the same without the HRM. Hope this helps!
800m VO2Max Intervals -
Step 1:
10 minute 'Warm-up' target: <65% Max HR (Zone 1)
Step 2:
800 metres (0.5 mile) 'Interval' target: pace < 5:30 mile
Step 3:
'Recovery' target: HR returns to 65%
Goto Step 2.
You can set this up in the Advanced Workout menu. Use the software of the menu afterwards to see what time you're managing for 800m and to see whether the recoveries are getting quicker.
I do copy the key data into a spreadsheet and use colours for different kinds of runs, pbs etc
and I use sporttracks
and memory map ....
I just like data I guess!
But what I have been meaning to ask is about the capacity of the 301 - I seem to remeber reading somewhere (but canot find it) that it hasa capacity of 1000(?) laps - but what happens then - does it stop saving or wipe out the past
and if I wipe the history from the garmin it will not wipe out from the TC or sport tracks will it?
Just don't want it to conk out mid FLM!
I use my 301 mainly as a HRM. It's great for setting up intervals and threshold runs using time and heart rate zones eg 6x 3.5mins keeping heart rate in zone 5 recovery finish when HR is down to 105bpm. This would be close to your 800s session and works in woodland surroundings where the satelite tracking for distance is not so good.
Beanz
Once you have uploaded data to TC then you can wipe it from the wrist unit and it stays on your PC. You might want to back it up by using File/History Export. Then you won't have to worry about capapcity. Do worry about battery life, it drains when not being used, it only takes a few days to drain completely. So charge it up fully the night before FLM. Don't forget to set it up well away from the start to avoid crosstalk.
Don't know! Lost power half way through a session and made sure it has been charged ever since. But I did see it reported as a problem elswhere. May be it is only a problem in random units. The battery life indication on starting the unit appears to be fairly accurate though.