The best thing about getting a new running watch: when you're done it congratulates you for your fastest mile, kilometer, 5k, and 10k!
I wasn't real happy that my old watch crapped out the other day. I'd had it about 3 years. I thought about splurging and getting a nicer one, but I saw where I could get the same one as I had before (only in white) for $40. It's hard to beat a GPS watch for that price. So I ordered it and had it the next day.
I like these Timex Ironman watches - even in white - because they give me just the basic facts: time, distance, and pace. That's all I need to know. I don't care about my heart rate (which probably isn't going to be accurate anyway), or my steps, when I need to take a drink, how good I slept, etc. I just want it for running, and maybe biking. That's what this watch does. I finally figured out how to switch it from AVE PACE to just PACE on pp. 20-21 of the million-page instruction manual (you have to open PAGES on the watch and then change it). The watch doesn't have great reviews, mostly because of the clunky software required on a computer, but I haven't had too much trouble with mine. Forty bucks every couple years is doable.
I wore the new watch for the first time today. It was also my best run in awhile. For some odd reason I felt really good when I got up this morning. I opened the Y and just worked 5-9, then around noon I took out on this beautiful sunshine-y 50 degree day. The first couple miles were a real struggle again, but I finally started to feel my legs on the third mile, and when I reached 4 miles I was feeling pretty good. I got faster with each mile, and the last one was finally under 10-minute pace. All told I ran 5 miles (53 minutes) and walked another 1.25 for 6.25 total. That's the most I've done in awhile.
Now it's time to mow the lawn for the first time this year. Watch out now!! ;)
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Lamentations 4:17
"Yet our eyes failed,
Looking for help was useless;
In our watching we have watched
For a nation that could not save."
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