Archive for October, 2009

First 5k race in a decade or more

Sunday was my first 5k race I’ve done since high school. With my old PR being 18:17 from back then I didn’t expect anything like that this time. The race was the Marine Corps Memorial 5k in Golden, CO. It was more of a 5k-ish race, just under 3 miles, so my time of 23:37 is even less impressive because of that.

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Garmin 305

I finally pulled the trigger and bought the Garmin FR 305. I’d have loved to get teh 310XT, but since it’s double the price I just couldn’t pull that trigger. The 305 is awesome though, I’m just working on figuring out which sites to use to upload my data to. There’s so many to choose and each have different features, but nothing has it all.

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Preparing for next season

I’ve started to get back into training again after some time ‘off’. At this point I feel like I haven’t done enough that week if all I do is 15 miles of running, 50miles of biking and a mile or two of swimming. It’s funny to think that my ‘lazy’ week has become excessive for most people in the world, I never intended that but it just kind of became that way.

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