Gadget Purchasing Syndrome#

Fri, 13 Oct 2006 16:01:48 +0000

New toy: my Garmin Forerunner 305 arrived this morning. Despite already owning and rarely using a (cheap) HRM (which is probably still somewhere around the place, for all that I haven't seen it in months) and having previously owned a GPS unit - broken in the One Eleven, where I found it didn't work too well as a wrist guard - which I also rarely used, I'm hoping that the new unit will come out more often.

• Monday off (mostly in Cologne (mostly in Starbucks))
• Tuesday RC for the LFNS which I'm leading tomorrow
• Wednesday short skate around Bethnal Green and then a rather unconvincing dryland session (some of the exercises we did in Sardinia, but too little of any of them to cripple me the following day)
• Thursday crossovers. Now, I'm moderately happy with crossovers turning left - there's still things to do, but they're not going to kill me. Turning right is still a messy business, though: I've got the going-round-in-circles drill licked, but when I actually have to actually go around an actual corner, it just doesn't translate. I can feel my toe wheel scraping at the end of the underpush, which says something is wrong (and I think it's the weight/upper body position).
• Friday will be LFNS leading, so doesn't count as training in any meaningful sense, but good opportunity to work on acceleration.
• Saturday Richmond: hills and bicycle chasing
• Sunday currently planning on some 500m sprints (had intended to do them today/yesterday, but couldn't find a suitable traffic-free 500m) and then ride the bike on the Stroll.

Initial notes on getting training data out of the Garmin and into a computer will follow when I've actually achieved same, but they don't make it easy for non-Windows users.