A Balance, Redefined

Yesterday was up at 3:50am for my oldest, last night was up at 3:30am for my youngest. Oh well... Just very strange in our house as they are both normally very good sleepers. I was in work early and then to meet Mandy Hosford. It was my first time running with her. She finished 13th o.a. at the Wasatch 100 this year. It was interesting hearing about her experience and how she has worked up from road marathons to ultras. We ran up Dry Creek which was covered by at least 1 in of snow most of the way. Avg. 10:27 HR said 173 but I think I've broken yet another monitor. This is probably my major complaint about the Garmin 305, and probably any of the Garmins with HR monitors. For some reason the place were the battery is always leaks. Sweat whatever gets in there and it corrodes. Running in the wet yesterday probably did this... Will the Polar HR monitors I've worn they never have this problem. Granted when the battery dies you have to buy a new one but we have had the same Polar for 3 yrs and this is the 4th Garmin monitor in the same amount of time... This one had orange stuff leaking by the battery and my run today hit 245 bpm at least once each mile. The one thing I will give Garmin though is that they've not given me a single problem replacing each of the broken straps.