Last night, I had to perform the rather bizarre Factory Reset on my Garmin Forerunner 310xt in a final attempt to rescue it from whatever demons have been possessing it in the last few months. My Garmin and I have been ‘on a break’ for a while, as modern relationship lingo would have it. It hasn’t been switching on for the last month or so andbefore that it transferred plenty of 0 byte files on any occasion that I tried to transfer any…
Introducing the Garmin Forerunner 310xt Firstly, you probably want to know why an average runner who only runs a couple of times a week, wants something as bulky and expensive as a Garmin Forerunner 310xt. If you have read any of my previous posts you will know that I’m a bit of a geek when it comes to analysing data; the more data the better! I recently spent about two months training to run a sub-25 minute 5k, my previous…
Thomas Edison once said ‘Just because something doesn’t do what you planned it to do doesn’t mean it’s useless.’, the same could be said of my Garmin on Saturday. Initially I headed out of the door intending to do a quick 5-mile run in between other commitments, in reality, I doubled that distance. The ‘problem’ with my run wasn’t actually in the run itself and, after a lot of thought and consideration, wasn’t really a problem at all, just a…
Through The Fog Visibility for Tuesday’s run was fine, as fine as it could be for an Autumnal evening anyway. The ‘fog’ came from the way my head and legs felt. Although I later discovered that I had ran 3.56 miles (clocked on my Garmin) at an average pace of 9:06 minutes-per-mile, at no point during the run did I feel comfortable. It’s hard to describe exactly how I was feeling but I described it afterward as ‘like running…
Whilst this post isn’t a content post in itself, I hope to give you, my readers an idea of the topics I hope to cover in posts to come. Running doesn’t require much equipment, a part of the appeal you may argue. The essential item that it does require though, a decent pair of running shoes, requires a wise choice. As such I will be reviewing a pair of shoes that I am currently using, the Asics Gel Nimbus 14s,…