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Hope this isn't too geeky..... I'm currently using my 305 for bike and run legs of racing and training which is fine for anything up to middle distance but rubbish for IM as the battery life is shorter than my expected finish time (>12 hours). I know this has been asked before but can't remember the answers..... what are the gizmos of choice for IM distance.
The sort of info I want to record/track include:
- heart rate (preferably %ages of MHR rather than actual)
- laps (number of laps and time/lap)
- average pace
- current pace/speed
- Cadence (bike)
- distance
- time of day
- a repeat alarm (for nutrition reminders)
- ascent/decent info (although recognise this only works with GPS) - nice to have not critical)
Would be nice to download the above data onto the computer as part of a training/racing diary.
What advice would anyone give? Cheers
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PSC.- My other half fixed this for me for Nice.-
You can buy a battery pack ( It's about the size of a credit card). with a mini usb fitting..- Pop that in your bento box,- fit the garmin on your bike in it's cradle.- Then the swim/bike bits the garmin will take power from the battery, then the run it will do on its own power.-
Cost about a tenner from maplin.
I'm not enough of a training geek to want to download my data and analyse it endlessly. TBH you'll be too busy training if you're doing IM so won't have time to check the data or do anything sensible with it.
So I use a Cateye Astrale 8 bike computer, a Timex Ironman watch and a cheap heart rate monitor. If I was buying them again I'd get the Timex Ironman watch with built in heart rate monitor as it has some useful functions that mine doesn't have.
cool. Thanks. And a lot better than spending another £200++ on more gizmos, incurring the wrath of Mrs PSC on route to Wiggle.
There's a Maplin round the corner - will go and investigate...
I could use the 720 for the whole lot but that means taking it off the wrist and mounting it on the bars after the swim - and reverse that for the run. the RS200 takes over reading HR for the bike and also acts as a standard bike computer if I decide to go without a HR
I've got a polar s720i too and an astrale 8 on the bike
I wear my polar on my wrist for the bike and it does the same, I think? except cadence
astrale 8 will do cadence - although not store it.
I got the garmin 305 cadence wotsit as a present and it's okay but tbh the unit keeps losing the HR when I'm on the bike, which given it's supposed to have a range of 3 metres is a tad rubbish.
The model number is N62FX and it'sgot "external lithium-polymer Battery Pack" on the back
or , you could just follow http://www.maplin.co.uk/Search.aspx?criteria=n62fx&source=15&SD=Y