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Hi,

I like very much customization option in Forerunner 305. It is easy to setup, you can choose from one to four values on screen and each is configurable. All profile or standard parameters can be choose as value. Check on picture how I organize three screens that are available for configuration. Also other features are very useful like Auto pause, Auto lap etc.

After two runs I’m very satisfied with accuracy, it is between 5-9m, don’t expect centimeters :-).  It is easy to link route/run with Garmin maps or Google Earth. Virtual partner is great feature, you are running against your best time on course. It can motivate you after many runs on same courses.

Dear all,

I just opened Commercial category. It means that you can post any kind of your business or shop that can be interesting to others and it is not related to travel or visiting places..

Use this opportunity for marketing, navigate people to your business. Use expansion of GPS devices and popularity.

Use POI files to add all your locations at once. Imagine how nice it is…

Hagia Sophia, (the Church of) Holy Wisdom, now known as the Ayasofya Museum, was an early Christian Church and later an Eastern Orthodox church which was transformed into a mosque in 1453 by the Turks, and converted into a museum in 1935. It is located in Istanbul, Turkey. It is regularly considered one of the greatest, and most beautiful buildings in history. Its conquest by the Ottomans at the fall of Constantinople is considered one of the great tragedies of Christianity by the Greek Orthodox faithful.

The name comes from the Greek name meaning “Church of the Holy Wisdom of God”. It is also known as Sancta Sophia in Latin and Ayasofya in Turkish. Although it is sometimes called “Saint Sophia” in English, it is not named after a saint named Sophia — the Greek word sofia means “wisdom.”
It was constructed in five years, from 532 to 537, and designed by Isidore of Miletus.

Coordinates: 41.0085° N 28.9800° E

The Emerald Buddha (Thai: พระแก้วมรกต - Phra Kaew Morakot, or official name พระพุทธมหามณีรัตนปฏิมากร - Phra Phuttha Maha Mani Ratana Patimakorn) is the palladium of the Kingdom of Thailand, a figurine of the sitting Buddha, made of green jade (rather than emerald), clothed in gold, and about 45 cm tall. It is kept in the Chapel of the Emerald Buddha (Wat Phra Kaew) on the grounds of the Grand Palace in Bangkok.
The Wat Phra Kaew (English Temple of the Emerald Buddha, Thai: วัดพระแก้ว; full official name Wat Phra Sri Rattana Satsadaram, Thai: วัดพระศรีรัตนศาสดาราม) is regarded as the most important Buddhist temple in Thailand. It is located in the historic center of Bangkok (district Phra Nakhon), within the grounds of the Grand Palace.

Coordinates: 13°45′5″N, 100°29′34″E

Chapel of the Emerald Buddha

The Royal Monastery of San Lorenzo de El Escorial (in Spanish, Real Monasterio de San Lorenzo de El Escorial) is an immense palace, Augustinian monastery, museum, and library complex located at San Lorenzo de El Escorial (also San Lorenzo del Escorial), a town 45 kilometres (28 miles) northwest of Madrid in the autonomous community of Madrid in Spain.

Coordinates: 40.589° N 4.148° W

El Escorial

The Museo del Prado is a famous museum and art gallery located in Madrid. It features one of the world’s finest collections of European art, from the 14th century through the early 19th century. Founded as a museum of paintings and sculpture, the Museum also have important collections of more than 5,000 drawings, 2,000 prints, 1,000 coins and medals, and almost 2,000 decorative objects and works of art. Sculpture is represented by more than 700 works and by a smaller number of sculptural fragments. The superb picture gallery consisting of 8,600 paintings is the factor which lends the Museum its world class status. The Prado undisputedly has the world’s finest collections of works by Spain’s Diego Velázquez and Francisco Goya, as well as of Dutch painter Hieronymus Bosch (a personal favorite of King Philip II of Spain). The museum also has excellent collections of El Greco, Peter Paul Rubens, Raphael, Titian, Bartolomé Estéban Murillo. Fine examples of the works of Melozzo da Forlì, Botticelli, Caravaggio, Albrecht Dürer, Rembrandt, Veronese, Hans Baldung, Fra Angelico, van der Weyden and many other notable artists are on display in the Museum.

Coordinates: 40°24′50″N, 3°41′33″W

Museo del Prado

Travel attractions, one of best  …

The Alhambra is an ancient palace and fortress complex of the Moorish monarchs of Granada, in southern Spain (known as Al-Andalus when the fortress was constructed), occupying a hilly terrace on the south-eastern border of the city of Granada. It was the residence of the Muslim kings of Granada and their court, but is currently a museum exhibiting exquisite Islamic architecture.

Coordinates: 37°10′36.81″N, 3°35′23.95″W

Alhambra

Hi, finally I bought Forerunner 305. Before I was user of Polar, but I was missing distance feature, so I switched to Garmin. I’m middle age male in average physical condition (pure amateur).

Installation on PC was fast and easy(MS WinXP). After installation, check Garmin website, I found newer USB drivers and newer version of their Garmin Training Center® software. Menus on device are very good (three different) and they are fully configurable with parameters that you want (also level of details). Other screen are GPS signal, map etc. Your profile could be updated with age, weight, heart zones, more or less it can be full personalized. I installed client for MotionBased, you can use same user as for myGarmin.

And then , heavy rain for last two days and I can’t run …

I’ll continue to write about my usage of this nice device.

I now I’m sick