More Garmin Practising

51 min
Start 19.30

Distance:6.76 km

Time:51:45

Avg Pace:7:39 min/km

Avg Speed:7.8 km/h

Elevation Gain:32 m

Calories:428 C

Out to Bloeyendaal then across the road, Berekuil circuit on the bridlepath, had to stop there once to let a pair of horses pass. 
Was again so busy keeping an eye on the Garmin stuff that I almost forgot to take a photo till I was almost home - this is the bare foot of a statue in the park round the corner.

Too much new stuff

40 min
Start 12.34

First outing with the Garmin Forerunner 205 I bought on Marktplaats the other day. Unfortunately this co-incided with the introduction of a new hairclasp thing which was not doing what it was supposed to at all, and what with stopping to wrestle with my flapping hair and coping with all the new digital data I can't say it was exactly one of my most relaxing runs ever.

Day later - have just installed the software to put all the data on GarminConnect - fa-sci-na-ting. Let's see if I can link to that...

http://connect.garmin.com/activity/208434158

Interesting to see all the stops I made as I dealt with the clasp, pressed buttons, tried to work out how I was supposed to interpret the navigation signal, adjust the scale on the map and so on.  This was very far from being a 'normal' run so I'll be interested to see what the graph looks like when I run 'properly'.  (Well as normally as I ever do on my haphazard 'hello sky, hello trees' jaunts...)

Golf in the Forest

180 min
Start 4.45

First of my 'proper' long runs leading up to the 50k.  Headed out to the nature reserve in De Bilt, hoping to see some of the 'wild' cattle or horses who're put out to graze there but no sign of anything bigger than rabbits today. Got a bit lost for a while but by working out my direction from where the sun was coming up in the northeast I managed to eventually get back to a road I recognised, via the golf club De Pan, which I'd never come across in any earlier walks there. 

Things to remember for future runs.  My 400ml in belt bottles is enough for this distance in the early morning.  The skin under my right arm was starting to get a tiny bit irritated so remember to take some vaseline for that. 

Short and wet

23 min
Start 20.30

Started raining before I got to the first corner but I was only running along to Karin's flat so kept going anyway.  It was actually very pleasant, comfortably warm.  Drank tea and blethered for a while and ran back just before dark.  My time coming back was faster than I went out.  A Negative Split!  (Ha, not exactly an Olympic achievement.)

Wet and humid

67 min
Start 5.15

Despite the tremendous thunderstorm a few hours earlier the air still seemed to be saturated with water and I was soon sweating much more than normal.  I avoided the waterlogged bridle paths I usually use as much as possible.  This meant a bit of my route on the cycle path took me past a newly installed viewfinder binoculars thing looking out over the lake.

Month total 1410

396 min ahead of schedule now.  That's more than 6.5 hours, or more than a week's 'normal' running time. 

Foxes

72 min
Start 5.00

These are the stones I jump over on this stretch of the road.

 

First brambles of the season.

Another ´will I or won´t I?' few minutes this morning when the alarm went off but ach, once I was awake I needed to get up to go to the loo anyway and once I'm out of bed it´s just a case of keeping going with the eyes, teeth, clothes stuff till I´m actually out the door and then I´m always glad I made the effort after all.  Lovely red skies over De Bilt and when I came round a corner at one point I saw a fox running off and then a second later another one running in the opposite direction.  Is this them being smart?  Not running off together to avoid the chances of being pursued/caught?