{"id":1389,"date":"2010-01-30T21:28:23","date_gmt":"2010-01-30T21:28:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.petestack.com\/blog\/?p=1389"},"modified":"2025-07-21T13:40:48","modified_gmt":"2025-07-21T12:40:48","slug":"forerunner-310xt","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.petestack.com\/blog\/forerunner-310xt.html","title":{"rendered":"Forerunner 310XT"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>While I&#8217;ve been very happy with my Garmin <a href=\"https:\/\/buy.garmin.com\/shop\/shop.do?cID=142&amp;pID=349\">Forerunner 305<\/a> as a training\/pacing\/recording aid for three years, I&#8217;ve just bought the new <a href=\"https:\/\/buy.garmin.com\/shop\/shop.do?cID=142&amp;pID=27335\">310XT<\/a> with this year&#8217;s West Highland Way Race in mind. Mainly for the increased 20-hour battery life (which should be enough to see me home if all goes to plan!), although its ability to use British Grid as well as just lat\/long for navigation could also be useful for further adventures away from the beaten path.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Anyway, it got its first outing today on an icy run to the Blackwater Dam and back by the Ciaran Path and my initial observations\/thoughts go something like this:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>It works, and feels reassuringly familiar to a 305 user.<\/li>\n<li>The new soft-strap heart rate monitor is nice and was worth getting even though the 305&#8217;s monitor will work.<\/li>\n<li>The watch strap retainer has a kind of super-secure interlocking system (not something I&#8217;ve seen on a retainer before when they&#8217;re usually just loops) that makes the end of the strap just a little awkward to feed in and out of it.<\/li>\n<li>The new wireless computer interfacing is nice and I&#8217;m pleased to be able to download the data to both the Garmin Connect online thingy (looks like I can use that with the 305 as well?) and my existing Training Center software. (Garmin Connect has some nifty fun features like &#8216;movies&#8217; of your run superimposed on a base map or satellite imagery, but it&#8217;s online and I like to have my data stored and accessed locally.)<\/li>\n<li>Training Center and Garmin Connect have given me different elevation\/altitude figures for the run, which seems a little curious?<\/li>\n<li>The watch screen appeared to be briefly (and very lightly) misted inside at one point, but I&#8217;m not too concerned about that right now (think the 305 might also have done this from time to time, but can always consult Garmin support).<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>And that&#8217;s about it for now. Not giving up on my trusty 305 because it was a present, I love it and am quite happy to have the choice (and\/or a reserve device), but the 310XT clearly has the advantage where battery life or potential navigational use (for which I&#8217;ve never used the 305) are concerned.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>While I&#8217;ve been very happy with my Garmin Forerunner 305 as a training\/pacing\/recording aid for three years, I&#8217;ve just bought the new 310XT with this year&#8217;s West Highland Way Race in mind. Mainly for the increased 20-hour battery life (which should be enough to see me home if all goes to plan!), although its ability [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1389","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-running"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.petestack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1389","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.petestack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.petestack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.petestack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.petestack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1389"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/www.petestack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1389\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11970,"href":"https:\/\/www.petestack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1389\/revisions\/11970"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.petestack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1389"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.petestack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1389"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.petestack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1389"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}