I absolutely love mine. I'm just a big old data geek and enjoy looking at the stats in Training Centre.

Like Oakleaf I carry a paper map too if I'm somewhere I don't know well, but I have found the screen ok if I really need to find where I am. Just takes a bit of practice to get the right resolution and move around. Fortunately, some geek with too much time on his hands has put together a far better topographical map for Australia than the one that comes standard, so I will have the hiking trail to the top of Mt Barney (I'm hiking up it this coming weekend) if I take my 705. And some other lovely geek has mapped all of the MTB trails in south east Queensland and put them up for us to download, so when I am in the forest I can tell which trail I'm on too.

The only thing I seem to be having trouble with at the moment is that the altimeter is a little bit wonky the last few weeks. I am not sure why but every few rides it seems to throw up some pretty dodgy elevations. For example I ride a loop from home and back to home but the closing error is very large (like 30m). I seem to recall somebody talking about periodically recalibrating the barometric altimeter using satellite data (or vice versa?) but there is nothing in the manual about it and I can't remember where I saw it. Might have to ask Garmin for assistance since it is still under warranty.

I've never had a drama with the cadence sensor - didn't even realise they do drown! I had it on my MTB briefly in case of lost signal in the forest and needing the speed override, but I rarely if ever lose signal and I find cadence on the MTB so variable with the terrain as to be kind of useless from a stats point of view. So I put it on the roadie instead where I find measuring cadence much more useful. The only time I have ever got it good and wet was in the Mooloolaba Triathlon when it poured cats and dogs but it didn't seem to bother it at all.