A Garmin Forerunner 305! But wait . . . it's not what you think. I didn't go buy it after work. I didn't have to. My husband had already ordered it for me early last week.
I think it is safe to say that I have the most incredible, most supportive husband EVER! I just think it is so amazingly sweet that he believes in me enough to know that this little beauty will be worth it! I hope that the look of delight on my face was enough to make it worth it for him. We immediately plugged it in and began its initial charging.
Bella was so excited she immediately ran and jumped in the pool! I hope Rick didn't think that, just because I didn't run and jump in the pool, that I was less excited than Bella. Instead of just using words of thanks, we, as people, should probably try to be more outwardly expressive of our thanks like animals. Nothing says, "I love my new super fancy personal trainer GPS" like a dunk in the pool.
This morning I awoke to find the Forerunner fully charged. When I turned it, on it began asking me many questions: date, time zone, sex, birthday, weight, social security number (no not really), and then I took it outside and it immediately found a satelite! Sooooo cool!
I am still in the process of reading the extensive manual, but I know that I was already able to set it up to do a "Time/Pace" workout so that it will track my Week 2 sessions (30 minutes at a 17 minute mile pace). It will be so nice to not have to think about my pace and my time. I can just listen to this fancy gadget beep to know when I need to slow down or speed up.
Next, I'm going to read about the heart rate monitor . . . stay tuned.
Is there some way that you can offload the data from your doomaflatchy watch so that over time we can see the cumulative trek you take to complete this odyssey? That would be thebomb.com :-)
ReplyDeleteYes! It will do that! I need to work on seeing how I could capture that on the screen and post it here. I'll work on it! Thanks for the idea. YFS
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