Day 198, 167 To Go

July 17, 2013

  There she is!!  My new Garmin GPS watch with heart rate monitor!  The watch came with some other goodies like a charger and multiple types of plugs depending on, I guess, which country you reside in.  It also came with a teeny, weeny USB plug which you plug into your computer and when your watch is within a couple of feet from the computer it automatically uploads your workouts.  Talk about easy!

Honey and I are looking forward to testing it out today.  Well, at least I am looking forward to it.  I can't speak for Honey, but since she was the one who bought it for me for my birthday (which is still a couple of months away) I would assume that she is looking forward to me using it too.

While my back has not gotten any better...if anything, it is worse...I will not let it stop me from enjoying my run.  Honey and I decided to take a little different path in our run today and we went for a run on the paths on the golf course.  It is a lot more fun and interesting to run on the course as well as a lot more dangerous!

FORE!!!!!!!

The paths wind back and forth and up and down, so you get a much more varied workout.  At times, we have to run on the grass too, so it is part path part trail.  We just need to try this again later in the evening because we went around 6 and there were still quite a few people on the course.  I think if we wait until 7 it will be much more empty.

Here are our numbers:

Time: 25:00

Distance: 2.26 miles

Pace: 11:03/m

Max Pace: 9:26/m

Calories:179
Avg HR: 115

Max HR: 128

Look at that pace!  Honey is on fire!  After one day of speed work she can't slow herself down.  Sure, she is stopping too much, but that will come around as soon as she gets more comfortable pacing herself.  I suppose I can help her a bit with that.  I'll try that tomorrow.

You may notice that the calorie count is pretty low.  Unfortunately, this is probably a more accurate calorie count than my previous GPS watch.  What most calorie counters do is they not only calculate the calories your are burning in your workout, they also incorporate the calories you would have burned had you just been sitting on your ass.  You burn calories all day long.  This is normal.  If your watch tells you you burned 300 calories, you think that you burned 300 MORE calories than you would have, and this is just not true.

Although I was aware of this inaccurate calorie counting in the past, I chose to willfully ignore it because I liked the higher numbers. Now I can't do that.  I am not happy about it, but I will have to get used to it.  179 calories burned just kind of sucks.  Oh well.  I will just have to run farther and faster!!

Run for Life!!