My new toy arrived today. The Timex Speed and Distance Monitor. This is a watch that uses GPS/satellite technology to tell you how far you’ve run. It’s intended to be the end of Autoroute hell.
I went out for a chilly 4 miler to try it out. It seems to do the job. The 3.67 mile circuit I do turns out to be 3.62 miles, and I carried on running till the watch tripped over to 4 miles. I stopped here and walked back the few hundred yards, marvelling at the data that I could recall, like the pace for each mile split, and the top and average speeds.
Another excellent running investment, and this one free of charge is a spreadsheet I’ve found, developed by someone called David Hays. It can be found here. Very comprehensive, and certainly more polished than the one I created.
Yeah, I’ve become a number slut.
