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Garmin Forerunner 405 Wireless GPS-Enabled Sports Watch with Heart Rate Monitor Review

My sport is trekking and nearby my city I’ve from rather small hills to over 20,000 feet high mountains. I wanted a device that could keep track of my trekking activities during weekends and also the training (running and biking) needed during the week to prepare for long mountain journeys. The outdoor GPS aren’t designed for running or biking especially because they lack heart rate monitors. So I bought the Garmin 405 with high expectations.
My doubts were not only the mixed reports I saw, but also if it would perform reasonably for the trekking activities.
My experience has been:
1.Accuracy: The GPS is very accurate, both in the city and mountains when you see afterwards the tracks in Google Earth it shows perfectly the streets, routes were you have been. Also compared to other devices the coordinates and altitude have been within a reasonable margin (difference below 5 meters). Also I have tested the heart rate monitor accuracy comparing it with other devices and also with a simple watch and always had precise measures.
2.Bezel: Takes some time to getting use to it. You have to attempt different pressures, changing finger can help too. Also try with different sensitivity settings until you find the way through. However, is not easy to maneuver while running or biking, but also in my opinion not necessary. Most of what you need can be set previously. I put the scroll feature in slow and set the information I needed in the screens using 2 fields (so they are easier to read). In training 1 I set actual time and timer time, training 2 I put distance and elevation, in HR I set heart and average lap heart rate and in training 3 I set it off, but there are multiple fields still to choose from. Also I set the watch with autolap every 500 meters. While actually doing my sport activity I manage the bezel locked to prevent unwanted view switching, and can watch all my relevant data while it scrolls. I highly recommend taking time at home in the setup stage of the device to avoid maneuvers during the activity.
3.Battery life: This has been an issue for me. The Garmin has performed exactly as it was advertised, about one week if used as a common watch (energy saving); 8 hours with GPS and heart monitor on. While this is O.K. for most biking and running activities as long as you remember to charge it completely after the activities is not enough for trekking activities, since many mountain journeys can be up to 10 or 12 hours. Could be better, but you get what is advertised.
4.Size: Great, is a big watch men can wear all the time. For women the same is not quite true.
5.Connection: I needed some patience, it took a few attempts until I had the devices paired and working and not any trouble after that.
6.Software: The Training Center works has the basic features to view your results, set workout and route. If you want a detailed comparison of the performance and hopefully your progress in you training I have found that exporting the track from Training Center as a .TCX file and then read it from excel. It brings all the necessary fields and then you have all the excel tools to analyze the files, draw your own, compute correlation ratios between variables, etcetera.

Ease of use is matter of finding the way though, features you either have them or not, I think the garmin 405 has the right features for all my sport activities.

Garmin Forerunner 405 Wireless GPS-Enabled Sports Watch with Heart Rate Monitor Overviews

GARMIN Forerunner 405 ANT S Green GPS Enabled Sports Watch/ HRM. Garmin International is pleased to announce the new Forerunner 405 GPS enabled sports watch. This sleek sports watch tells you how far, how fast and when you are in your heart rate zone. The Forerunner 405 can be used indoors or out, when you are outdoors you can use the built in high sensitivity GPS receiver for your training, plus with the new touch bezel you can scroll through menus on the run. While indoors you will be able to use the ANT plus Sport wireless technology to connect to an optional foot pod to measure speed and distance when indoors. Users can upload data to Garmin Connect a new web based application which lets users analyze data with interactive graphs that chart their pace, time, distance and heart rate. The Forerunner 405 will be offered in two different colors black or green.

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