Training Log Archive: Ari-o

Need Garmin help. After 5+ years my watch strap is broken, it sometimes randomly power cycles luckily so far during charging, it will only hold a charge for a couple of hours, and Garmin won't replace the battery. I like the Forerunner 620 but think it might be time to bite the bullet and go for a wholesale replacement. (Unless anyone has had luck prying the watch apart and changing a battery?)

Features I want are

* long battery life <-- most important!
* relatively compact watch itself
* good GPS

Features I don't really care about

* inaccurate wrist-based HRM

Features I couldn't give two shits about

* ability to play music through the watch to sap the battery life more quickly

Thoughts?

C • Watches 2

Run around Madison. Shin still hurts some, but getting better.

The swelling had gone way down and really there wasn't much pain, so I signed up for the mile race the November Project people were all doing. I didn't want to warm up and was a bit hungover, but my leg felt okay. As we waited for the start, I did a little jogging. As long as I stayed on my toes my leg didn't feel too bad. Heel strikes, through. Well, just a mile.

Mile race. I went out conservative, then passed people, but based on my leg and my hangoveredness, it wasn't my day. It was very fun to look down at my watch 1:25 in and think "quarter of the way done, I can survive four more minutes!" And I did. Barely. Finished sub-6, which is fine.

NP Chi has PR day on the last Friday. Still pretty shot from a long week and some beers and from the burpies, I wasn't about to set a PR. So I ran the circuit, chatted with people, and on the 7th lap, as I attempt to go up the big steps, I slipped and slammed my right shin in to the step. By the time I got back to the start I had an extra kneecap.

It looked real bad. Not broken, since I was walking, but like what happens when a cartoon person is hit on the head and it just swells way out. Someone had ice, so I stopped and put the leg up and iced it. It didn't hurt that much, but I figured it would come later. The swelling went down, when you hit a bone it can only swell out. But it looked real bad! Took the train home.

To the train, then to NP, then back to the train.

Core with NP. Various things, choose your own adventure, and then 7 minutes of burpies. I lost track of how many, but it was good.