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I have been asked by many, as it is possible that, although the Garmin Forerunner 305, I am able to load my sports at Garmin Connect.

Indeed, even the help page of the site, it appears that, at least for now, the only models supported are

and then apparently not possible to save these races on their 305.

Effective and attempting to upload, though the device is detected,

an attempt to upload, however, leads to an error message. A similar error is obtained by importing the file manually. Tcx exported by 305.

But, of course, there's a trick and this trick passes right to import the file manually. Tcx but with a little extra step that will believe the Garmin Connect site you are uploading a file obtained from 405 instead of the 305.

First uploaded to your business if you have not already done so, in the Garmin Training Center software that came with your watch.

Click, right-click on an activity and export it as. Tcx.

Now, the trick to convert your files from a file exported from the File Export from 305 to 405, is to open the file with a text editor. You get good even though the notebook is not really the best, Mgar Pick another as, for example, the PSPad.

Anyway, the change is simple. Must go to the end of the file and identify the following section:

<ProductID>484</ProductID>

and transform it into

<ProductID>717</ProductID>

The game is already done. You can now return to the upload page of Garmin Connect, select the upload manually fed him the file. Tcx just changed and you will see that everything will be well.

How did I run with no date?

Here, with this sentence, the review of the Garmin Forerunner 305 could also be considered closed. But since it is not nice to be superficial, then maybe you should add some other bit of information about

Presentation.

The Garmin Forerunner 305, which you see on the left is a watch with an integrated GPS receiver and a heart rate monitor with the help of a band to be applied on the chest.

With this standard equipment the FR305 lets you record, moment by moment, position, speed, heart rate and other 39 parameters of instantaneous values, peak values and values medii.

The FR305 is therefore an ideal tool for runners, makes trekking, cycling and any other kind of sport where they can be useful to detect these values and then analyze it later to see your physical state and its growth racing.

In fact, once they arrive home, you can download, via USB, the data collected and analyzed with the management software included, called Garmin Training Center, and / or exports in XML format proprietary to Garmin's called. Tcx readable by others software such as, for example, the SportTracks or directly on the 'special site of Garmin.

Use as a heart rate

Obviously the tool is also suitable in situations where you use only part of the recorded parameters.

And 'the case, for example, a lesson in spinning, where obviously the parameters measured by GPS are not significant but are instead those of the heart rate monitor.

One below, for example, is the graph of one of my spinning classes with the legendary Annalisa, our instructor at the gym Fashion Pescara

As you see, unlike other heart rate monitors, the FR305 is not only recalls the peak value and the average activity but remember every single sample run. This allows you to view highlights of the post and understand exactly how long you have worked in strip aerobics, as in the anaerobic zone and how much in assets not relevant to the loss of fat or to strengthen the heart muscle.

In the chart above, obtained directly into the Garmin Training Center, one notes, for example, the initial warm-up, the slow rise and peak during the intermediate phase (in this case objectively, a bit 'too high) in stage work culminating in rapid jump four times and moments of jump in third position. Note finally the final final cool down.

Using GPS + Cardio

Obviously the above example is a use "crippled" the instrument that gives the maximum of himself in business "road" such as, for example, jogging.

First we must say that the Garmin Forerunner 305, contrary to what the appearance would suggest, is, to the wrist, very light, and during the race, you forget almost immediately, but only as a burden because of the stimulus go read what you are running, what is your heartbeat, what is the slope of the road, is practically a requirement constant.