Forums >Gears and Wears>Does the Garmin 305 (or 405) have a backlight? How accurate is it at the track?
I've got a fever...
I'm unexpectedly in the market for a new HRM as my old Polar one broke. I'm thinking about the Garmin 305. Does it have a backlight? One thing that irked me about my Polar S120 is that it did not have a backlight - so when I was doing my pre-dawn speedwork at the track I did not know how fast my intervals were until later that morning when I checked the lap times in my watch. Will I be in the same boat with a Garmin Forerunner? Actually, how does the Garmin perform at the track? Is it accurate? (not that I need a GPS unit to tell me how far I've run at the track, but I believe there is an auto lap feature on the Garmin...will that work at the track?)
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It's a 5k. It hurt like hell...then I tried to pick it up. The end.
... another is one where it auto-laps when you pass the start of your loop again. You'd probably want to use that 2nd one. ...
Lazy idiot
Can the 205 do that?
Tick tock
- the backlight comes on every lap when it is dark out (how does that work, btw? I guess it has a light sensor?)
- but the autolap is based on its measured distance and
- it is a bit inaccurate at the track - on the order of up to 5% I've observed I think
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how does that work, btw
I'm running somewhere tomorrow. It's going to be beautiful. I can't wait.
Poor baby
You tell it that it is dark out by turning on the backlight at the start of your run. You know, when you look to make sure the thing is on and set right? If you do not do that, it won't auto-light. Cool, eh?
I would not see the purpose of using a Garmin at the track.
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Plus its another light waving around in the dark to keep people from running me over, but that's probably not a problem on most tracks.
------------------------------------- 5K - 18:25 - 3/19/11 10K - 39:38 - 12/13/09 1/2 - 1:29:38 - 5/30/10 Full - 3:45:40 - 5/27/07