My Garmin 305 is awesome. It tells me how farI traveled, pace, et cetera (and heart rate) but when it reports calories, it reports well over 5 times what I have calculated using various other methods. For example, today I rode a bicycle 50.3 miles, with an average pace of 5 minutes per mile. It reported that I burned 6815 calories.
It thinks I'm running, even though I've got it set to cycling. I confirmed this by looking in my history, and found no cycling history, but all my rides are in the running history. My profile is configured for running, however.
Help!
Also, the ascent and descent appear to be miscalibrated too.
Firstly, the ascent and descent are only approximate, and can be very approximate! This is because it's using GPS to calculate your height above sea level when GPS is really only accurate for position Lat and Long. When calculating height, a very, very small error can lead to a large variation in actual height. You should never use a GPS for height if needed for navigation (ie climbing walking etc) If you need accuaracy you will need to get a barometric altimeter.v
As for calories, I think you have identified your problem, it's calculating calories on running not cycling. Not sure what the answer is as I don't know what software you are using but if you are using Garmin TC, bin it and use SportTracks. Takes a bit of getting used to but to really get the best out of your 305 this is excellent software and it's free. Any anomolies like your calorie issue/wrong category import can be changed manually plus a whole host of other stuff. Garmin doesn't even let you edit activities - crazy.
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