Help me set up my Garmin 305 to bike and run

 Hit the mode button and select settings > General > Data fields then you can chose between Main 1/Main 2/ Running/ Biking or Other.  Main 1 and 2 are always the same no matter what mode you are in.  After you select what screen you want to effect it will ask how many fields you want to display (1 - 4).

Hope this helps.

didn't really answer my question or help me out

i know how to change the windows and options.   my issue is that i can't get it to stay to either biking or running.   

for example, right now my screen is set to biking and i have 4 windows that show hr, cadence, time, and distance.   when i try to change it to running, those windows don't change...it still shows hr, cadence, time, and distance.

i want to be able to have seperate windows for running and biking.  and when i switch from one to the next, the appropriate data fields change.   right now they aren't.

ya but even when it changes from bike to run, it still has the same data in those fields.

so when i go from bike to run, it still shows hr, cadence, time, distance.

anyone understand my issue and know what i can do to get it right?

Not sure I can help much but am open to putting our brains together to figuring it out. But one q Are you trying to do a brick? like a multisport event? Just curious.

 One idea is that you could just set your main 1 and 2 to your bike and run settings, and then just change your screen when you do your workout. (They always stay) bandaid fix for now???

 I have gotten a lot of q's about my garmin answered from the motionbased forums. Today I will try to set mine up w/ differences and see what happens.

ok, here is what i just did

i went into data fields and selected bike and put hr, distnace, time, cadence into the windows.

i then went to running and put time, hr, and distance into windows.

i then exited out to the main screen.

what is on my main screen now is the biking setup....hr, distance, cadence, time.   i hit the mode button and hold it to bring up my training options.  i select running and hit enter, but the screen doesn't change.   it is still showing hr, cadence, distance, and time for my biking.

why can't i get it to change to the different windows when i switch between sports?

but shouldn't you be able to have a certain screen and data field set be tied to a sport and when you pick the sport it automatically changes to that screen?

that is what i want to do.   when i select biking it changes automatically to my biking screen and data fields.   when i then select running it changes automatically to my run screen and data fields.

surely there is a way to do that i'm not understanding.

do you mean you choose your sport and then go back to the settings data fields screen to select the screen you want?   if so, that is alot of work.

basically i want to be able to do a brick and just be able to hit 1 button to change the data fields so i can see what i am doing when running or biking.

It sounds like you are doing it right.  As I described earlier you go to the data field like you said and set up Main 1, Main 2 then bike, Run or Other.  Then exit out and hold the mode button and select between bike, run or other.  Main 1 and Main 2 are always the same the only thing that changes is your 3rd window and that is either bike, run or other. 

Have you tried using the up and down arrow to scroll between the different windows?  Basically if you have it set up to display 4 screens per window you have 12 total screens to view.  My guess is you set up the bike and run data fields but are viewing Main 1 settings. 

Do you have a way to video what you are doing and upload to Youtube?