I've become quite dependent on the Garmin nowadays. Considering I paid £120 for it, I want to get my money's worth, quite understandably. For the hard sessions I've done lately it has been imperative. On the current schedule, I could probably do all of the sessions without it and with a standard stopwatch, except the km reps. If I have it though, which I do, I use it and it is completley essential for the session I had planned today.
I woke up with a different attitude to last night towards the rep session. I wanted to hit the country roads which, despite undulating, are really good to run on. So I got warmed up and turned the Garmin on...Off it went. I click the on button again...Off it goes. I couldn't believe it - I'd made sure the Garmin was fully charged when I set off so it's either well and truly buggered or it turned itself on in my bag and the battery has run down. I would find out if I had brought the charger with me! Yep I'm without a charger, and I haven't even got the backup plan of a stopwatch so today's session has been cancelled. I'd rather do this session later in the week and get it right. So, I've got 4 hard sessions to do in 5 days now - tough times!
On a more positive note, as I was already in my running gear, I went for a steady couple of miles on part of the route I was going to take. These miles made up for the couple I lost in the long run yesterday by doing 6 as opposed to 8. I actually felt very good today - I picked up where I finished yesterday's run; strongly. So tomorrow I still think I'll go for the rep session, although it depends what time I get home from Scotland to get the Garmin charged up!
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It could be that the memory of the Garmin was full, Will. Same happened to me. You need to clear the data to go forward. I cleared everything but I think it gives you options to clear all or parts.
ReplyDeleteThanks Terry. I'll give that a go when I get home.
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