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Thursday Jan 3, 2013 #
Pickleball 1:00:00 [2]
Rec Center. 4 courts, around 20 people. I didn't wind up in many really even games, plus I wasn't playing the greatest, so it wasn't my best outing. Still, I had one decent game, where Debbie S. and I played against Debbie's husband Mike S. (the best player who routinely plays with us) and Robin. It was a close game but Debbie and I managed to win. Debbie seemed quite pleased to have beaten Mike.
Monday Dec 31, 2012 #
9 AM
Pickleball 2:00:00 [2]
Webster Rec Center. 12 people total, lots of good games and some good non-game drills.
2 PM
Walking (Dog walk) 45:51 [1] 2.35 mi (19:29 / mi) +3ft 19:27 / mi
shoes: Hiking boots
Mid afternoon walk with Homer, over to Finn Park, but didn't go past the parking lot because the trail looked like it had had zero traffic (foot, ski, snowshoe, snowmobile traffic -- nothing), and I didn't feel like slogging through, and breaking trail in, about a foot of fairly heavy snow. Then we went around the big block, to Bay Rd, and back home.
Again used my new Garmin Forerunner 10. I found another aggravation with it.
When you first turn it on, it doesn't automatically look for satellites. Presumably to conserve battery power. When you push the button that says you want to run, it then starts looking for satellites; then you push the run button again, once satellites are acquired, to actually start the clock. This seems slightly irritating but not terrible.
So today, around 10 minutes before I was ready to head out, I turned on the watch, pressed the run button, put it on our porch, and it started acquiring satellites, things seemed OK.
Then, 10 minutes later when I was finally ready to start out, I picked up the watch, and it was back in the standby mode -- ie, not ready to run. No satellite acquisition. So I pressed run again, and it again started looking for satellites. WTF? I thought ... I had told it to do that 10 minutes ago.
All I can think of is that it has a "feature" where, once satellites are acquired, if you don't start running soon, like in a minute or 2 or 3, it decides you really didn't need/want satellite acquisition, and it turns off the mechanism to stay locked in with satellites. So you have to start all over again when actually ready to run (in my case, walk) -- trying to give the Garmin plenty of time ahead of when you're ready to go out to capture satellites does no good at all, apparently.
Again used my new Garmin Forerunner 10. I found another aggravation with it.
When you first turn it on, it doesn't automatically look for satellites. Presumably to conserve battery power. When you push the button that says you want to run, it then starts looking for satellites; then you push the run button again, once satellites are acquired, to actually start the clock. This seems slightly irritating but not terrible.
So today, around 10 minutes before I was ready to head out, I turned on the watch, pressed the run button, put it on our porch, and it started acquiring satellites, things seemed OK.
Then, 10 minutes later when I was finally ready to start out, I picked up the watch, and it was back in the standby mode -- ie, not ready to run. No satellite acquisition. So I pressed run again, and it again started looking for satellites. WTF? I thought ... I had told it to do that 10 minutes ago.
All I can think of is that it has a "feature" where, once satellites are acquired, if you don't start running soon, like in a minute or 2 or 3, it decides you really didn't need/want satellite acquisition, and it turns off the mechanism to stay locked in with satellites. So you have to start all over again when actually ready to run (in my case, walk) -- trying to give the Garmin plenty of time ahead of when you're ready to go out to capture satellites does no good at all, apparently.