Route Planning, when it comes to the ride...

don't think mines ever crashed while out on a ride, although I think it might of while playing about with it and loading routes of my computer. I've had a few dodgy readings in speed and heart rate although most of the wireless computers get this from interference from some power lines and stuff.

It was crashing because I had the old system on. Hopefully it is fine now, I haven't had any problems since the update.

What it does though is when following a route that you have carefully planned it tells you to go via someplace else and that is annoying....

The wrong data is amusing, the other day it informed me that my top walking speed had been 99km/h.

try doing your routes as courses instead of routes, routes mark the points you put and trys to use the gps getting you from one to the other so sometimes it wants to go a different way. Courses are like leaving a breadcrumb trail along the route so it follows where you want to go, you still have to put in course points and junctions and stuff to give you alerts

I've just posted my Garmin 305 back to their HQ for replacement because it was turning off while I was using it. Apparently the battery is linked to the main unit using something like a spring and sometimes this can get knocked out of contact and the unit powers down. It's worth emailing them if firmware updates don't work (they ask you to do that before accepting a return).

What is the best app or site (on Mac here) to look at your data after rides??

I'm using motionbased.com and a third party program called Ascent (costs $39 I think) both are pretty fun and have a range of stats etc.

try doing your routes as courses instead of routes, routes mark the points you put and trys to use the gps getting you from one to the other so sometimes it wants to go a different way. Courses are like leaving a breadcrumb trail along the route so it follows where you want to go, you still have to put in course points and junctions and stuff to give you alerts

Thanks I'll look into that, not sure how it works though. I normally save a route in gpx, import it into the garmin and to follow it I go to "where to" I choose saved rides, select a ride then the options come up "navigate, map set up, copy to card". I select navigate. Not sure what the "map set up" option is for.

try saving it as a tcx, in something like bike route toaster or bikehike. I prefer saving the file and then copying it across manually, can't remember at the mo where it goes though. Then you go into training, courses and then follow course and it all starts up

cheers I'll try that.