I have had problems with Pytrainer in both Ubuntu 8.04 and 8.10, but have manage to get it working. I did not use Pytrainer in 9.04, because I got a little tired of looking at graphs and was following a running program where it was not necessary.
If have been injured for some month now, but [...]

Dist
  
Time
  
Date
  
Min/km
  
“Proof”

5 km
  
0:20:55
  
21. Aug 2008
  
4:11
  
Garmin Forerunner 305

10 km
  
0:45:59
  
5. Feb 2009
  
4:36
  
Garmin Forerunner 305

15 km
  
1:11:05
  
16. Apr 2008
  
4:44
  

I just use the Gutsy binary, which works fine in Ibex.

echo "deb http://www.e-oss.net/ubuntu/gutsy/ ./" | sudo tee -a /etc/apt/sources.list
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install pytrainer
sudo apt-get install python-gnome2-extras

To get the Garmin kernel driver working in user space, make an udev rule in /etc/udev/rules.d/51-garmin.rules with this content

SYSFS{idVendor}=="091e", SYSFS{idProduct}=="0003", MODE="666"

Pytrainer is made to use path like /dev/ttyUSBX to [...]