Of Mice and Marathons

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Location:

Lake Orion,MI,

Member Since:

Dec 28, 2011

Gender:

Male

Goal Type:

Other

Running Accomplishments:

PRs

16:52 Phillies Charities 5k (2016)

35:52 Beach to Beacon 10k (2015)

58:10 Broad Street 10 Mile (2016)

1:16:02 Philadelphia Rock and Roll Half Marathon (2015)

2:46:54 Philadelphia Marathon (2015)

Personal:

I live in Michigan with my wife, Megan, and our boys, Charlie and Sawyer. I started running in September 2010.

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Miles:	This week:	20.20	Month:	20.20	Year:	1868.65
Miles With Megan Lifetime Miles:						613.75
Miles With The Boys Lifetime Miles:						99.90
Nike Zoom Streak LT4 Mr. Pinks Lifetime Miles:						21.60
Saucony ISO Freedom 3 #2 Lifetime Miles:						253.80
Altra Rivera Lifetime Miles:						353.35
Altra Rivera (Dark Blue) Lifetime Miles:						137.10
Saucony Kinvara 13 Lifetime Miles:						440.50
Saucony Endorphin Pro Lifetime Miles:						287.00
Saucony Freedom 5 Lifetime Miles:						304.80
Saucony Kinvara 13 #2 Lifetime Miles:						270.65
Saucony Endorphin Pro White Lifetime Miles:						23.40
Kinvara 14 Blue/Grey Lifetime Miles:						40.50
Saucony Ride Teal Lifetime Miles:						23.40
Saucony KInvara 14 Yellow Lifetime Miles:						12.40
Nike XC Flats Lifetime Miles:						4.10

Wed, Aug 24, 2016

Easy Miles	Marathon Pace Miles	Threshold Miles	VO2 Max Miles	Total Distance
7.00	0.00	3.00	0.00	10.00

AM/Lunch: 10 miles, averaged ~8:10 w/ 30-minute farlek

28' up/30' farlek of 6 x 3 minutes w/ 2 minute jogs/23' down

First two were around 6:05 pace, the next 2-3 in the 5:50s, and the last one was around 5:45.

My backup watch is messing up. My next GPS will not be a Garmin. Complete junk.

Saucony A6 Miles: 10.00

Weight: 174.00

Comments

From Jake K on Wed, Aug 24, 2016 at 11:11:51 from 159.212.71.173

What are non-Garmin options for "Garmins"? I didn't even realize they had competitors.

Other than the time Andrea ran over one with her car, we've always had good luck with them. (I might have just totally jinxed myself by typing that.)

From Jason D on Wed, Aug 24, 2016 at 11:23:28 from 24.127.111.174

I think I am just rough on stuff and never take very good care of my stuff.

I'd probably buy a Suunto. Big among trail runners and the Garmin hating folks. I apparently threw away the soft bands that could have repaired at least one of my watches. I've been using my 210 the last few days. It's now frozen.

Based on Sara Hall's FitBit Pro (whatever their GPS model is) I would not buy one of those. The data was clearly off:

http://www.runnersworld.com/gear-check/notebook-sara-halls-fitbit-data-a-pineapple-eating-contest-and-what-were-testing

From Ben VanBeekum on Wed, Aug 24, 2016 at 12:33:36 from 159.212.71.25

I just bought a Garmin 620, and I know you don't want to go the Garmin route. But it is pretty legit. Everything is Bluetooth through Garmin Connect. Get done with your workout, automatic upload to your garmin connect, strava, etc. Also the updates come automatically too. This is where I've struggled with Garmin. The GPS needs to have current software to run properly and with the old watches that had to be done by plugging them into the computer.

From Jason D on Wed, Aug 24, 2016 at 13:29:16 from 24.127.111.174

Thanks, Ben. I've been using a 620 since about May 2015. I like vet the watch but the strap is breaking. I wear it too low and too tight I think. I have a warranty I just need to call to get it straightened around. You would think the wireless transfer is not a big deal but it stinks going back!

I've found over the last 6 months or so the current pace only reads in multiples of 5 seconds. It's close enough if I'm doing a workout but that it didn't originally do this bothers me. I even did a hard reset.

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