Kerry's Running Blog

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Location:

Cedar Hills,UT,USA

Member Since:

Apr 08, 2006

Gender:

Male

Goal Type:

Age Division Winner

Running Accomplishments:

5K: 21:39 (2006) Half marathon: 1:33:45 (2006) Marathon 3:31:49 (2006)

Short-Term Running Goals:

Lose some weight and get back into racing shape. Run more races this year.

Next race: St. George Marathon

Long-Term Running Goals:

Stay healthy and in good enough shape that I can more or less keep up with my youngest daughter.

Personal:

My wife Laureen got me into running. She went into the St. George Marathon Ten Year Club last year and I should go in this year. I have two daughters (15 and 21).

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Miles:	This week:	0.00	Month:	0.00	Year:	0.00
Cumulus12 Lifetime Miles:						10.65

Tue, Apr 08, 2008

Easy Miles	Marathon Pace Miles	Threshold Miles	VO2 Max Miles	Total Distance
5.20	0.00	0.00	0.00	5.20

When the noise from my daughter getting ready for school woke me up this morning I was in the middle of a running dream. I'd been walking along the street in front of Deerfield Elementary when I noticed some runners coming towards me with race bibs. I didn't know of any race going on then, but decided to join them anyway. I ran and chatted with them all the way to the finish and was just talking to them about the race when I woke up. I thought I recognized a few people from the blog there.

Well, this was another morning when the Garmin failed to lock in before I was ready to run. It must have a lot to do with the position of the satellites at that particular time of day, as when I run later in the morning on Saturday's it's locked in before I even get to the end of my driveway. Anyway, another pleasant day for a run. With yesterday's snow, rain and wind I was expecting conditions to be a little worse than they were. It was cold and humid (29 degrees and 81% RH), but I was dressed warm enough that I didn't really notice. What I did notice was how clear and fresh the air was. Running south after the turn by the high school I especially noticed how much the temple stood out this morning. It was just brilliant. I couldn't help thinking about President Uchtdorf's talk in the priesthood session when I noticed that I wasn't running directly towards the temple, but was a couple of degrees off. It was a good reminder of the need to know where you're going and to make the necessary course corrections often and early in one's journey.

Comments

From Tom on Tue, Apr 08, 2008 at 10:49:50

Interesting dream. I'm always surpised how infrequently I have running-related dreams or dreams at all for that matter. Perhaps I just don't remember them.

SOunds like a good run today, you must be get spared the canyon breezes that so often give us grief in SF. The talk you mentioned by President Uchtdorf was one of my favorites.

From Cal on Tue, Apr 08, 2008 at 11:30:43

Which Garmin model do you have? I'd be very surprised if the Global Positioning Satellites aren't fixed in geo-synchronous orbits.

Sometimes when my 205 seems to be taking a long time to sync, i'll turn it off and back on then it finds the satellites more quickly.

From Kerry on Tue, Apr 08, 2008 at 14:22:14

Hi Cal,

I have a Garmin 305 as well as a handheld unit (the Garmin Vista). On handheld GPS units you can actually see which satellites are overhead. It was helpful for me to know that GPS satellites are actually not in geo-synchronous orbit (which is 22,236 mi above earth). They're in what's called medium earth orbit which means they orbit every two to twelve hours. Some car and handhelf GPS units allow you to download the position of the satellites for several days or weeks in advance to speed up the synching process, but the watch GPS units aren't to that point yet. How has your experience with the watch been in general?

From Cal on Tue, Apr 08, 2008 at 14:53:28

I did some research and you're right. Interesting stuff.

My 205 works amazingly well (especially compared to my old 201 unit). It's only lost the signal a handful of times over the last 18 months whereas that was pretty common with my previous one.

From Paul T on Tue, Apr 08, 2008 at 17:14:08

I'm with you, Tom. I rarely dream (or remember them), and when I do it's not about running. However, I have had runs where I'm enjoying myself so much that I think I must be dreaming.

As for Garmins, my old 201 is notorious for taking forever to lock in. My new 205 is much faster, and usually can lock in quickly even inside my house.

I also enjoyed President Uchtdorf's talk about staying on course and making needed corrections early and often. I was just wondering if there might be a corollary about running tangents in a road race, i.e., staying focused on running the shortest distance possible on a race course by hugging the turns and running straight from the tangent on one turn to the tangent on the next. I'll have to ponder that a bit more.

From Kerry on Tue, Apr 08, 2008 at 18:11:26

It really kind of surprises me that you don't remember your dreams in the morning. I almost always remember some fragment from the night before and running dreams are fairly common. Some of them are stress dreams about showing up at the start five minutes after everyone's left and then trying to figure out where the course is (often passing through buildings). Most of the others are just about running where I never get tired or winded and can keep up with anybody (fantasy dreams, in other words :)

From Kim on Tue, Apr 08, 2008 at 18:21:01

Last week I had a dream that I forgot to clip my toenails before the half marathon. Dumb....!

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