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Wednesday Sep 6, 2006 #
trail running 56:53 [3] +1050ft
rhr:48 weight:132lbs shoes: Pegasus 08/06
Up in Greenfield, so I ran my "13 hills" loop. Not pushing the pace. Felt a little weak the first half, then progressively better, last few hills felt good. So two good efforts not too long after Sunday's long one.
Total climb -- 1060'. That's based on my new altimeter watch.
Not sure if I like it, well, actually, I like it, I'm just not sure if I really like it (as in, I really like my Casio Accelator watch, it's pretty much perfect, except it needs an altimeter). My gut feeling is that it overstates the accumulated climb, counting in the little fluctuations in pressure that it treats as changes in altitude. Maybe I should take it to the track and see what sort of climb I get for a run there.
On the other hand, it is entertaining, though in that respect it's not in the same league as one of the original Casio digital watches, which Fred had back in the late 70s. That one had a little game on it -- a stream of digits got fed out of the left edge of the screen and you had to keep wiping them out by manipulating a couple of keys. Finish a level, and on the next level they came a little faster. Very primitive.
But after Fred had had it a while, and obviously played the game quite a bit, and I'd had my share of playing, well, one day we went north for a long run on Vermont's Long Trail, and at some point out came the watch, and we're taking turns playing this thing as we're running along the pretty rocky trail, and before long we had both PR'd! And we were quite pleased with ourselves, figuring we were doing just awesome O' practice (that didn't even involve little white balls) -- working on split vision, one eye working on running through the rocks, the other concentrating on the game.
I wonder if they sell that thing on EBay?
Total climb -- 1060'. That's based on my new altimeter watch.
Not sure if I like it, well, actually, I like it, I'm just not sure if I really like it (as in, I really like my Casio Accelator watch, it's pretty much perfect, except it needs an altimeter). My gut feeling is that it overstates the accumulated climb, counting in the little fluctuations in pressure that it treats as changes in altitude. Maybe I should take it to the track and see what sort of climb I get for a run there.
On the other hand, it is entertaining, though in that respect it's not in the same league as one of the original Casio digital watches, which Fred had back in the late 70s. That one had a little game on it -- a stream of digits got fed out of the left edge of the screen and you had to keep wiping them out by manipulating a couple of keys. Finish a level, and on the next level they came a little faster. Very primitive.
But after Fred had had it a while, and obviously played the game quite a bit, and I'd had my share of playing, well, one day we went north for a long run on Vermont's Long Trail, and at some point out came the watch, and we're taking turns playing this thing as we're running along the pretty rocky trail, and before long we had both PR'd! And we were quite pleased with ourselves, figuring we were doing just awesome O' practice (that didn't even involve little white balls) -- working on split vision, one eye working on running through the rocks, the other concentrating on the game.
I wonder if they sell that thing on EBay?