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Location:

st george,Ut,USA

Member Since:

Feb 08, 2006

Gender:

Male

Goal Type:

Boston Qualifier

Running Accomplishments:

St.George 05 first marathon. 3.00 hrs. 2010 in 3:02, 2012 in 3:00 Ran Boston 3 X , PR half 1:22 in 08. 10 k 35.28 min PR 5 k 18 min:

Short-Term Running Goals:

Utah Summer games 10 k

Drop 13

Enterprise 10 K

Cottonwood Marathon

Run every day. Work on flexibility,

Long-Term Running Goals:

Keep running and stay healthy

Personal:

53 years old. Been Sruggling with a Knee injury. Trying to get back into running shape after 8 months of weight gain.

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Miles:	This week:	0.00	Month:	0.00	Year:	0.00
Kinvara 7 Lifetime Miles:						124.00
Launch 3 Lifetime Miles:						220.30

Tue, Jul 24, 2007

Easy Miles	Marathon Pace Miles	Threshold Miles	VO2 Max Miles	Trainer 1 Miles	Trainer 2 Miles	Racer Miles	Total Distance
8.00	0.00	0.00	0.00	0.00	0.00	0.00	8.00

I took my baby garmen out for its first training run today. I ran 8 miles which i thought was at least 10? Bad baby!!! I tested it's limits because i heard it stops working if your running to slow. 15 min miles. I thought i was running 8 min miles, (bad baby) I ended up going over the bridge in washington and running in the middle of the parade. People were throwing candy at me and my baby! :):). after the parade, i saw woman on a bike with her chid in one of those cuboose contraptions. I picked up the pace and passed her at 6:20 pace. She was on a mission to pass me back and began closing the gap. I groaned and picked up the pace to 6:00 min miles. As we turned onto red rock road and started going down hill . I knew at this point I was defeated. She and her child completly closed in on me and passed me with her teeth uncloaked. I shut down the turbo and baby garmin went back to sleep. In defeat i waddled on back home. :(:(

Night Sleep Time: 0.00	Nap Time: 0.00	Total Sleep Time: 0.00

Comments

From Michael on Wed, Jul 25, 2007 at 09:21:52

yeah better watch out for those Mommies taking their kids out for a ride!

Question - Im thinking of getting a garmen too, what model did you get and what cost/where? Anything you dont like about it? Im worried too if I get one, it will tell me Im running less and slower than my ego and body are telling me

From Maria on Wed, Jul 25, 2007 at 10:30:35

Bill, you should win a prize for the most entertaining blog entries ever!!!

Be careful with baby Garmin though - sometimes he can be quite erratic, like all babies, I guess. I do not believe you can even physically do 15 min. miles, even if you're walking. Sometimes, Garmin cuts out intermittently, and then it displays less distance and, naturally, slower pace. I caught mine on a measured course more than once, and I knew I weren't doing 11-12 min. miles. When I got home and divided total time by the measured distance, I got more like 8:45-9:00 miles - which is my usual easy pace. Couple of times I even watched the distance on my Garmin decrease as I ran on - imagine that!!

From Sasha Pachev on Wed, Jul 25, 2007 at 18:24:36

My Garmin, both the GPS part and the HRM part stopped working completely around mile 16 of the DesNews marathon yesterday. Fortunately, the watch was still going.

From Lulu on Thu, Jul 26, 2007 at 14:42:09

I love your posts. I have a Garmin. I find it very inaccurate especially on courses with tight curves (around a lake) and courses with lots of trees (everywhere near my house). I recently got the $30 Nike+. It has a shoe pod a bit bigger than a nickel. I think it weighs less. It can go in the sole of Nike shoes or on the shoelaces of other shoes in a little pouch. You plug the very small transmitter into the Ipod Nano. You get real time, very accurate data on the screen of the Ipod and in your ear with a sweet female voice if you so choose. Previously, I didn't run with an Ipod but I do now. I only wear one ear phone so I can hear what is going on around me. I then download the data to Nike+.com and keep track of everything there. Sure beats the frustration of a $$$Garmin.

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