Here’s what my new watch looks like! I know. The Garmin 305 is, in a word, dorky.
Ron calls it the “Dorkmeister 3,000.”
I call it FANTABULASTIC!!
This watch does everything that a usual heart rate monitor does. But. It has GPS!!! That means it tells me how fast I am running, WHILE I am running. This is great for me, because, you know how some people have a tin ear for music? I have a tin ear for pacing. Sometimes, I think I am running really hard, and I realize after the fact — when I add up the mileage and the time elapsed at the end of the run – that I was actually going pretty slow. Or, sometimes I think I am running slow when I was actually going pretty fast.
It did swell on its maiden voyage. I ran down in Back Bay in Newport Beach. It was gorgeous. It was also FREEZING. 47-degrees at 7 a.m. I wasn’t dressed for it. My hands were like blocks of ice, but I was too focused on my new toy to notice all that much.
We took it out for another spin today.
Thanks, Ron, for the best Xmas present, ever!
