My running watch refuses to calibrate so I broke down and bought a Garmin and had planned to sell my Polar. Like most runners I am obsessed with my stats and keep track of everything.
But now instead of wearing just the Garmin, which I know is correct, I am wearing them both to have even more numbers and stats to obsess about.
They do not match up, which I knew would be the case, but it is still driving me mad. One says I have not gone as far but says I am faster. The other says I am slow running but super fast walking. I spent most of the run today looking like a spaz because I couldn't keep from looking at my watch.. My plethora of watches and all of the data they have to offer.
I fell off the curb once, almost tripped over a piece of trash in the road, and stumbled into a tree scraping my knee.
Chris refuses to run with me again until I pick a watch and am done with it all.
I'll miss running with him.
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Which Garmin is that, the 205? Let me know how you like it.
ReplyDeleteI got the 405 in January, love it (except when it's really hot outside). The touch wheel on it goes nuts if it gets sweat on it. Completely goes bonkers. On a run last night, the thing beeped 2 or 3 times per swing of the arm because it got sweaty and started shorting out.
I have the 305 and just love it and uploading the data to the Training Center. I have difficulty running straight trying to look at just one watch, I can't imagine what would happen if I was keeping track of two. Your description of you stumbling around was funny. I'm glad you got just a scraped knee.
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