Pace and the 405 (Read 911 times)

I don't know if I am the last one to know about this but I thought I would pass this along in case I am not. If you have a 405 you know that if you set a data field to Pace it's pretty useless. Mine drifts constantly +/- 2 min per mile of actual pace. Useless. I read this tip on some other board that I cannot remember. There is a way to get a very accurate reading of your current running pace that does not wander but stays very locked in. If you want to know the average pace for your entire run in real time use Pace-Avg. That's nice for longer runs. But if you want to know your exact pace as your running here is what you need to do. Set the auto lap for 1 mile and set a data field to Pace-Lap. I have my first screen set up to display both so I know my overall average pace for the entire run as well as my current pace. It works beautifully.

You can do this with the 205/305, as well. The fields I have on my primary screen are run time, distance, lap pace. I used to do current pace, but it drove me buggy the way it jumped all over the place.

I figured it would be applicable to the 205/305. There should have been something in the user's manual or even on their damn website explaining this.

Yeah, the manual is kinda incomplete. I have learned more of the ins-and-outs of the thing here.

Can someone give a brief explanation of how to switch to "lap-pace"?

Can someone give a brief explanation of how to switch to "lap-pace"?

abusa, 1) you want to turn on the "auto lap" feature; 2) then change one of your displays to show "pace, current lap" Let me know if you need exact information on the settings.

I love y'all! I did quickly figure out that the current pace on my 205 didn't give me a lot of information unless I looked at it every few seconds, and just waited for the auto-lap to give me my mile pace. (Though I do tend to believe the really fast paces while discounting the slower ones -- at the same time I'm telling myself I'm ridiculous!) Now I want to leave work, go home, fiddle with the settings and go for a run ....

I hope that got you sorted out. I feel so stupid that it took me months to figure this out.

A feature worse than current pace is current grade. Completely useless running uphill and it'll show -3% then jump to 25% and back to something like -10%, all on the same incline. However when viewing the info at the end of the run the graph shows the change in elevation extremely accurately.