Finally! After almost 2 weeks I was able to get out again. Part due to cold, part to rain, part to work, part to staying with my grandson. Did 40 miles, which included about 6 heart rate intervals. I was using the workout feature on my new Garmin 305 and I had to stop and start it several times to get it to do what I wanted. I ended up having 5 or 6 downloads for the trip.

I do 90% heart reate intervals once a week: 6 min at 90-95% max heart rate, then 2 min rest, repeated 6 times. I finally got the workout set right so that when I reach the target hr the 6 min timer starts. When that ends the 2 min rest starts. After that the unit waits until I hit 90% again before starting the next 6 min ride. Works nice. THe only problem was that it chopped the ride up because I was stopping and restarting the workout.

The other problems I have is that I got a new laptop. It is a new Lenovo with a 64 bit processor and it came with Windows 7. It was nice and fast, but not compatible with a bunch of my specialty printers and software for work. Garmin TC loads, but I cant get it to commmunicate properly. I get a failure message after each upload/download.