I have had my Forerunner 305 for a couple of months and I love it. This is the best tool I have ever used for tracking runs with heart rate, mileage, and pace statistics all right there at your finger tips. When you combine this device with the Motionbased web site (free) you really can not beat it. Yes it is expensive but for what it does it really rocks!!!

My experience is that I have no problems connecting to satellites and in fact I can even pick them up when sitting here inside my office. On two occasion since I've had the unit I have had to reboot it to get it to find the satellites but other than those two time it always connects within about 1 to 20 seconds. If fact it works so well that I've stopped sitting it on the ground and now I just leave it strapped to my arm and let it locate the satellites because it is so quick. As for keeping the Forerunner 305 siginal I've had no problem. I run in the woods under trees and I have yet to lose my GPS signal and when the data is applied to the map functions in Motionbased it is spot on. It is Awsome how well this thing works.

The complaint I have seen several people make about the unit not measuring altitude correctly is mostly resolved by using the Motionbased web site to correct the altitude readings. My unit is always +- 10 feet from one day to the next which is close enough for my purpose.

The one problem I have had (mostly operator error) is that when I'm done running I will press the stop button, the unit confirms the counter has stopped, but on two occasions when I've gone to up load the data I found that the Garmin Forerunner 305 kept tracking me all the way home and then kept running even in my house. The end result is that I ended up with about 20 hours of data which was a complete waste and of course had to be discarded as useless. Now I always make sure I turn the unit completely off when I'm done working out so that this does not happen any more. Problem have been solved.

Bottom line is that I'd buy it again with out thinking twice and I'd highly recommend Garmin Forerunner 305 to anyone that is interested in tracking their performance over time. It actually makes working out more fun.

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