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AM - 12 miles. 20 minute warmup, 4 mile AT/LT Tempo (5:27, 5:29, 5:23, 5:00) on the tempo loop (big surprise), 10 minutes easy over to the dead end street w/ the hill (which I didn't realize until today is Murphy Lane) for the main course - 10 x 45 seconds uphill (3.5%) at 3K effort (jog back for recovery). Avg pace was exactly the same as the 30s efforts last week. Felt strong... had to focus on the last 2-3 efforts. Cooled down another 10 minutes.

PM - 5 miles.

It doesn't tell you anything you didn't already know, but the cadence chart from Garmin connect is a cool graphic...

Easy to see the difference between the different efforts. Cadence is something a watch can actually get pretty accurate, because it just requires a simple accelerometer.

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From RileyCook on Thu, Feb 06, 2014 at 10:42:59 from 172.56.8.10

Nice work Jake. That hill work will pay off.

From allie on Thu, Feb 06, 2014 at 11:18:22 from 161.38.221.168

does your garmin have a gyroscope? that's a serious question.

From Jake K on Thu, Feb 06, 2014 at 11:30:03 from 159.212.71.69

Serious answer... probably not. It doesn't really need one, since position relative to earth's gravitational field doesn't impact the way it is calculating cadence. It should be recording a "step" every time the acceleration of your wrist reaches zero, because that should match your stride. Obviously that isn't a linear motion so hopefully they put a tri-axial device in the watch.

Engineers / Mathematicians (Andrea, James, Collin, KEVIN?)... am I right?

From Rachelle on Thu, Feb 06, 2014 at 12:02:08 from 199.190.170.28

Great workout Jake. The graph means nothing to me....but it looks really cool! :-)

From Jake K on Thu, Feb 06, 2014 at 12:11:05 from 159.212.71.69

Its just steps per minute, or stride rate. 180 strides/minute has been a buzzworthy number in the running world... I pretty much default to right around that number when running ~MP... and then when I'm running at a faster effort (the hill efforts), its closer to 190-195 str/min, which again is what you'd expect.

Dorky running nerd stuff :-)

From fiddy on Thu, Feb 06, 2014 at 14:14:20 from 155.101.96.139

Most likely it's a man watching the feed from a satellite in geosynchronous orbit with a click counter.

From Jake K on Thu, Feb 06, 2014 at 14:23:02 from 159.212.71.69

That actually makes a lot more sense to me

From prlman on Thu, Feb 06, 2014 at 22:28:27 from 67.54.212.9

I got the footpod for my garmin since I have trouble counting while I run,hence the 14 mile half I ran in the past ha ha

Seriously a great workout. I love the hill work. This one over by me would be a good one for you to try some time (winchester westbound to 1300 west) good one to push up.

From Rob on Fri, Feb 07, 2014 at 11:45:16 from 63.235.131.194

I was tempted to buy the new Garmin 620 cause it claims to tell you V02 max but then I decided that number was going to be about as accurate as calories burned and wasn't worth the extra money.

From Jake K on Fri, Feb 07, 2014 at 11:51:07 from 159.212.71.199

It estimates your VO2 Max. The only way the watch could actually tell you is if it came with a built-in treadmill, mask, and equipment to analyze O2/CO2. Running a 5K would give you a much closer number than that watch.

From Rob on Fri, Feb 07, 2014 at 11:59:18 from 63.235.131.194

Oh, I forgot to mention it comes with pretty colors too.

From Jake K on Fri, Feb 07, 2014 at 12:02:11 from 159.212.71.199

the mask or the watch? either way, i'm sold.

From allie on Fri, Feb 07, 2014 at 12:02:56 from 65.130.189.75

i don't care what the watch does as long as it has pretty colors. that's a serious statement.

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