Nice to see the kind folk at Garmin are keeping an eye on 1095miles.com…
No sooner had I mentioned in a post last Sunday that my old 405 was on its last legs, they got in touch and asked if they could send me a new one to replace it. Not one to look a gift horse in the mouth – and keen to save the £200 or so to get a new one, I gratefully accepted and it arrived in the post late yesterday.
Previously, I was using the Garmin Forerunner 405 but the new watch is the 405CX. There’s not all that much difference between the two, except the colour and the fact the 405CX is meant to calculate your calorie intake more accurately.
The 405, uses, distance and your personal profile (height, weight, age and stuff) to compute calories expended. The 405CX goes one step further by also taking into account another crucial factor: heart rate.
The difference between yesterday and today is quite amazing. The 405 yesterday calculated I used 468 calories on a three mile run, while today’s 405CX gave a reading of 328 calories for the same distance.
No wonder I’ve not lost any weight while I’ve been doing this… over the year, I’ve expended some 50,000 calories LESS than I’d thought.
Miles today: 3
Target: 1050
Miles to date: 1,466.68
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Today’s run
1 comment
Scarlett says:
September 5, 2010 at 01:33 (UTC 1)
Nice going on the Garmin! Maybe I should keep posting on my own blog about the fact I want one so bad, but I doubt they’d be so gracious lol. Thanks for the clarity between the 405 and the 405CX, I’m going to be buying one for myself soon so this is a vital element I’d have looked out for. But 50,000 calories less… faaark.