I don't know what happened, but Santa must've thought I was good this year. He (or she) got me the Forerunner 305 and put it under the tree. I thought all I needed to run was my shoes, some nice clothes and my watch. With all the new mapping available on the net, I would just map my runs to get the mileage.
Now I got this high tech GPS HR monitor/watch. It's very nice and has lots of bells and whistles. Add the Motion Based website and zowie, now I can run anywhere and let the watch & computer do all the work. I'm having fun replaying mine and other peoples workouts. It monitors not only my position but my HR, pace, elevations and with the user profile, calories burned. For the bike I can add a cadence sensor but that's latter. Right now I can pull up the stats at any point of the workout when downloaded to MB. I'm just learning how to use it and have only done 2 runs and 1 bike with it. So far it seems accurate but I kinda doubt the elevations. I'm excited about this new toy and tend to push myself out the door just so I can record something. I'll report more as I learn more. Now what's that thing called an ipod?
Sunday, December 30, 2007
Saturday, December 22, 2007
End of 2007
Well I'll try to recap some of what happened in '07. First off I tried to make it on Team Hawaii Capital Management. This was a new start up and there were 4 of us. Good group of athletes and I felt excited to be part of it. But they never got me my tri gear until the Hawaii 70.3. By that time I had only planned to race one more tri afterwards. Then Dave (the owner of HCM) wanted his uniform back just before Tinman. Gave an excuse of changing the logo but none of the other teammates knew anything about it. Oh well, I guess I wasn't good enough to be on his team.
Did the North Shore Swim Series again. I love those swims and if you get a chance to try it, you'll love them too. They are a series of swims on the north shore of Oahu in the summer when surf is usually small. Beautiful water and marine life to take your mind off the swim. I like that it starts at 9 am rather than the usual 6 am starts for tris. More sleep is good!
Then of course the Honolulu Marathon. This year it was wet. Some heavy rains leading up and into the race made it cool. Bad part was not only dodging people but also large puddles. In some spots everyone squeezed to one side of the road and you had a bottle neck. A new timing system didn't workout so well and a lot of people had the wrong time or not time posted at all. I was lucky and my time registered correctly. At least according to my watch.
Just before the marathon my wife was talking to Chet the Jet and he was looking for one more person to go to Vineman in early August and asked if I'd be interested. Duh! This had been one race I'd hoped to do since I got into this nonsense. My wife asked me and told me it's ok with her. We wrote the check the next day. I am so excited to have a chance at this race. Currently I'm putting together a six month training plan but have started some early base building. I need to take care of the ITB in my right knee that flared up in the marathon. But for tonight I will watch Black Beauty with my daughter and have some coffee ice cream.
Did the North Shore Swim Series again. I love those swims and if you get a chance to try it, you'll love them too. They are a series of swims on the north shore of Oahu in the summer when surf is usually small. Beautiful water and marine life to take your mind off the swim. I like that it starts at 9 am rather than the usual 6 am starts for tris. More sleep is good!
Then of course the Honolulu Marathon. This year it was wet. Some heavy rains leading up and into the race made it cool. Bad part was not only dodging people but also large puddles. In some spots everyone squeezed to one side of the road and you had a bottle neck. A new timing system didn't workout so well and a lot of people had the wrong time or not time posted at all. I was lucky and my time registered correctly. At least according to my watch.
Just before the marathon my wife was talking to Chet the Jet and he was looking for one more person to go to Vineman in early August and asked if I'd be interested. Duh! This had been one race I'd hoped to do since I got into this nonsense. My wife asked me and told me it's ok with her. We wrote the check the next day. I am so excited to have a chance at this race. Currently I'm putting together a six month training plan but have started some early base building. I need to take care of the ITB in my right knee that flared up in the marathon. But for tonight I will watch Black Beauty with my daughter and have some coffee ice cream.
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