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Archives for the day Saturday, March 27th, 2010

oakland running festival

I got out bright and early this morning to practice with the Garmin 405 super deluxe sports watch.  I set the virtual pace buddy to 10:15 then took of for a jog.  It is really odd looking down at your watch and seeing zero.  I stopped, shook the damn thing and cursed before I noticed the timer started going and the odometer started going too!  It said I was falling behind the pace by X distance.  I stood there feeling silly, cursed the damn watch again then took off to catch up to the pace.  I slowly got it back to zero.  Cool.  I picked up the pace when I approached a stop light and watched it level out while I waited for the light to change.  My next step was find an area that looked like a water stop and walk through it.  I found that walking through water stops does not hurt the overall time much.  The next challenge was the old port-a-potty break.  I was quick about it and it still hurt the time pretty good.  It set me back 30 seconds.  Lesson learned here is that walking does not hurt much, stopping hurts a little more.

I am ready.  The goal is to cross the finish line between 2:14 and 2:15:59.  Your chip may say 2:09:32 but I want to finish at a gun time of 2:15.