GARMIN Forerunner 301

Features:

• Wrist top device, robust, very handy
• Easy to read display with background illumination (100x64 pixels)
• Multilingual user interface in Czech, Danish, Dutch, English, Finnish, French, German, Hungarian, Italian, Norwegian, Polish, Portuguese, Spanish and Swedish
• Integrated 12 channel GPS receiver with very sensitive built-in antenna
• Chest belt with heart rate monitor. The chest belt uses a digitally coded signal, which means, once a heart beat sensor and the GPS have been paired, the GPS will never receive a conflicting signal from another sensor. So you can excersise in close proximity to other sensors without fear of interference.
• Powered by built-in, rechargeable battery (lasts about 14 h), battery charger included
• Short time to first fix (TTFF¹: approx. 15 seconds after a warm start, meaning there are valid coordinates of the satellites available, or approx. 45 seconds after a cold start, meaning there are no valid coordinates of the satellites available)
• Firmware stored in Flash-Memory, can be updated by the user
• Operating temperatures -20 .. 60°C (-4° .. 140°F)
• USB interface (connection cable included)
• Dimensions: 83x43x18 mm (3.26x1.71x0.69 inches)
• Weight: 78 g (2.75 ounces); Chest belt 44 g (1.55 ounces)
• Water resistant up to approx. 3 feet (1 meter) for about 30 minutes (IPX7)

¹) TTFF: Time To First Fix, time until the first information about the local position is acquired.

Information about your training:

• Profile: stores personal information such as gender, weight and date of birth (in order to calculate the calories burned)
• Stores various settings per sport mode (running, biking, other), such as values to be displayed on the custom page, heart rate zones, limits etc.
• Stop watch with split times (laps). Records split times either manually by pressing the "lap" key or automatically based on a user defined distance.
• Auto pause: Stops the watch automatically if the current speed drops below a user defined value, e.g. when waiting at a red light or during a short break.
• Speed alert: Goes off when the current speed exceeds a user defined upper limit or when the current speed drops below a user defined lower limit.
• Distance alert: Goes off after you have travelled a user defined distance. The alert can be set to go off only once or repetitive.
• Time alert Goes off after a user defined time period. The alert can be set to go off only once or repetitive.
• Heart rate alert: Goes off when the current heart rate exceeds a user defined upper limit or when the current heart rate drops below a user defined lower limit.
• Virtual Partner: This unique feature helps you to achieve certain goals for your workout. Choose one of the following combinations:
  1. Distance & Time: Set the distance for your workout and the time you intend to achieve. Forerunner computes the pace / speed required.
  2. Time & Pace / Speed: Set the time and the pace / speed for your workout.
  3. Distance & Pace / Speed: Set the distance and the pace / speed for your workout.
  The virtual partner will keep exactly the pace / speed required to achieve the goal you have set. Forerunner will constantly measure your current pace / speed and compares it to the virtual partner's pace / speed. It will ask you to speed up or slow down as needed and it shows on the display whether you are ahead or behind your virtual partner.
• History: Forerunner keeps track of your workouts. It stores the date, time, number of laps, duration, distance, average speed, calories burned, average and maximum heart rate on a daily basis. It also provides weekly overviews and running totals for the duration, distance and calories burned.
• Navigation: Indicates your current location in relation to user defined waypoints. You can create routes with these waypoints. The GPS will guide you from one waypoint to the next indicating current direction and distance. You can save 10 reversible routes.
• Back to start: This feature helps you to travel all the way back to the starting point of your trip.
• Stores up to 100 waypoints with name (up to 6 characters), icon (choice of 29 symbols), coordinates and elevation.
• Stores up to 3'000 trackpoints of the most recent travelled path (tracking) and 5'000 laps.
• Supports metric and U.S. units.

• Accuracy of current position information
• Current position of the satellites in the sky
• Strength of satellites' signals
• Number of the visible satellites

• History (per day, per week, running totals)
• Training assistant (auto pause, virtual partner, speed alert, distance alert)
• Navigation (waypoints, goto, routes)
• Settings (time settings, language, units etc.)

• Time settings (time format, time zone, daylight saving)
• Units settings (units, pace / speed, heart rate monitoring)
• Display settings (contrast, backlight)
• Heart rate monitor settings (on/off, trainings zones)
• Custom page settings (see "Custom Page")
• Profil settings
• System settings (speaker, language)
• Factory reset (restore factory settings)
• Show firmware version

• Running
• Biking
• Other sports

Some settings, the way the Forerunner calculates the calories and sorting of the results are based on the sport chosen.

• Map with waypoints and planned route
• Next waypoint
• Direction to the next waypoint
• Distance to the next waypoint
• Estimated travel time to the next waypoint

• Distance
• Rest time
• Repetitions

Compose different workouts and training plans for different sports.

• Your position (bottom) in relation to the virtual partner (top)
• Distance between you and your virtual partner

• Heart rate (in beats per minute or in percentage of your maximum heart rate)
• Average heart rate for this lap
• Current heart rate zone (set values for 5 zones from "relaxed" to "very strenuous")

• Current heart rate
• Time since workout started (stop watch)
• Current pace
• Distance

• Current heart rate
• Pace of the current lap
• Lap time
• Lap distance

• Daily overview (date, time)
• Totals (duration, calories, distance)
• Average heart rate and average pace
• Maximum heart rate and maximum pace
• To detailed view per lap