The Garmin Forerunner 405 is easily the best birthday present I've ever received! It tracks your running routes, measures your heart-rate, tells you if you're going faster (or slower) than you wanted, and will even measure your progress against a Virtual Partner to give your competitive side a bit of a shove. Just a word of warning: this is very long review - I wrote lots of notes for it, so I've appended them below. Once you get to the bit about the price, everything after that is just details. The Forerunner 405 integrates a GPS unit into a running watch and then connects wirelessly to a chest band to record your heart rate. When you get home, ...  Read the complete review

I am training for the London Marathon - I am not a speedy runner - more a plodder, and I am very much out of practice, having had a 15 year break from any sort of real exercise (with children as an excuse, although the reason is laziness!). So as I am an overweight, unfit, plodder, why would I need a super duper gadget such as the Garmin? Well, I certainly don't NEED one - but I sure as heck wanted one! Now, I could do things on the cheap, and in fact I did so for a while, using a bog standard stopwatch, and plotting my route on mapmyrun.com and this is fine........but a garmin does sooo much more! Garmin have a name for ...  Read the complete review