GPS Kids | Caddy Confidential: A Fistful of Garmins

Blogging partner and fitness guru extraordinaire Peg recently blogged about a cadre of “Speed Golfers” using their Forerunner 310XTs to pace themselves as they dashed about the course. Down at the caddy shack, your humble caddy viewed this post as an opportunity to broaden his horizons and do something different – that is, see how many different ways I could use my various Garmin devices in a single weekend.

Strapped with my trusty Garmin Forerunner 205, a borrowed Oregon 550 and my beloved Approach G5, I conjured a plan to golf, geocache and bike using each of the devices, putting them through their paces and seeing what I could learn about the devices.

First, I hustled the little caddies off to Loose Park in Kansas City (pictured above) for a Saturday morning geocache. Next, I strapped my Forerunner 205 to my golf bag to see how many calories I burned walking the hilly course. The results were pretty cool to see:

Having worked on our sweet new Oregon TV ad, I knew I could strap the Oregon to my bike and take it for a whirl. Flipping through the various Oregon fitness menus I quickly realized it had the awesome capability to capture some of the same data an Edge 705 bike computer. I even loaded my City Navigator microSD card into the Oregon, so I was able to navigate around town like I had nuvi 3700.

By the end of the weekend, I was able to have a little fun with the various devices doing some not-so-ordinary things. My hope is to speed up my golf play to something just shy of “speed golfer”, and to kick up my bike pace a bit too. Stay tuned as we’ll be posting the results here soon. 

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