Ironman Austria 2008 by Garmin Forerunner 405

Ironman austria 2008

Would you like to see how my heart was beating, exactly how many kilometers I had to swim/bike through/run, at which speed and on what kind of track configuration on my Ironman path? What was the wind speed, air humidity and many other details? Keep reading. It was all made possible by Navigo-sistem d.o.o., an exclusive sales representative for Garmin type GPS devices in Croatia.

Satellite precision of the Garmin device named Forerunner 405, which I was carrying with me during the race, gave me detailed information about the bike track (we rode two 90-kilometer circles in the race) as well as the marathon track, while the swimming portion of the race wasn’t registered on the device.

Forerunner informed me that the bike track was 178 kilometers long, while the marathon track was 42,192 kilometers long on the dot.

Forerunner 405 has certain bicycle features( you can add a speed/cadence bike sensor to track the speed and distance of your cycling workouts) , and on my run a huge help was it’s pace alert, which always kept me between 3:50 and 4 minutes per kilometer (it triggers an alarm if you vary from preset pace).

In this race, as in many others, I used a heart rate monitor (which I didn’t even notice was on me) to get the information about my heart rate throughout the competition.

I store my training information and share them with the general public on the Motionbased website (Garmin announced changing the domain into Garmin Connect, but I will switch there as early as next year).

In case you were wondering, I will use Garmin Forerunner 405 to record my race and all the additional details in my next big challenge on the legendary triathlone competition, the Ford Ironman World championship, that will take place this fall in Hawaii, USA.

Stay tuned, be informed!

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