Saturday, February 18, 2012

Run No. 85. Cap d'Antibes

The cold days are gone finally. This sunny Saturday, we have about 15C this afternoon. I went out running with my new gift: a Garmin Forerunner 210 ! So it's the first test workout of this watch.

Put the heart rate monitor on, the watch detected it right away. Went outside, locating the satellite takes about 30 seconds, correct. Then all what I need to do is just to push the start/stop button to start/pause the run. So nothing more to say during the run, the usual route, the usual pace.

When I pushed the start/stop button for the last time to finish this run, the distance displayed on the screen is 11.4 kilometers. Then push the lap/reset for 3 seconds to save the run. Done.

After the run, simply upload the data to Garmin Connect website, I have the route displayed in Google map (I can also choose to display on Bing map, but I still prefer Google),  three charts: Timing, Elevation and Heart Rate.

The link is here



Sunday, February 12, 2012

Run No. 84. Sophia Antipolis

The last two weeks have been the worst days I've ever had since long. Bad weather, snowy, cold. Problems at work, busy, tired. Finally it's the weekend and surprisingly, there is the sun coming out. So let's go out running!

As usual, 11 kilometers in 70 minutes without records. Although I still felt quite cold at the beginning, I totally got used to the temperature after 20 minutes. I felt much better after the ran, precisely, after a warm bath at home.