On my commute home I used a feature called Virtual Partner. This is a brilliant feature that allows you to have a race against yourself. You tell the Garmin what speed you'd like to maintain and then the device displays a person on a bicycle going at that speed. You can see your progress - faster or slower - against this virtual partner. It also shows you how far behind or ahead you are.
This is a great little feature and would come in very handy for training for racing events or to maintain a certain pace. I enjoyed using it and again glancing at the display was not distracting and felt quite natural.
Last night I downloaded a route a friend had emailed to me quite easily. All is stored away and on Saturday morning I will press go and let it direct me. You can almost certainly read about that trip sometime next week.
I am beginning to like this little Garmin a bit too much for my liking!
You will love the 800! I found mine really useful to pace myself during this year's BWC. My only complaint concerns the mount which slips around my handle bars when on the move.
ReplyDeleteI have to say that I haven't found that so far with regards it slipping.
Deletenever had mine slip, have you changed the rubber bands?
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