{"id":189,"date":"2010-04-11T13:55:43","date_gmt":"2010-04-11T17:55:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/benhauck.com\/running\/?p=189"},"modified":"2010-05-23T12:35:24","modified_gmt":"2010-05-23T16:35:24","slug":"running-with-garmin-and-elizabeth-too","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/benhauck.com\/running\/2010\/04\/11\/running-with-garmin-and-elizabeth-too\/","title":{"rendered":"Running with Garmin (and Elizabeth, Too!)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe width='465' height='548' frameborder='0' src='http:\/\/connect.garmin.com:80\/activity\/embed\/29714422'><\/iframe><br \/>\nToday&#8217;s run was a warm, slightly hazy 65 degrees in Central Park with <a href=\"http:\/\/www.elizabethcorkum.com\" target=\"_blank\">Elizabeth Corkum<\/a>.  It was a run of a couple firsts.  First Number 1?  My first official run using my <a href=\"https:\/\/buy.garmin.com\/shop\/shop.do?pID=31859\" target=\"_blank\">Garmin Forerunner 405CX<\/a>.  First Number 2?  Upon completion of 6.3 miles, just after a final sprint, I convulsed twice and almost vomited.  That&#8217;s never happened in my <em>years<\/em> of training!<\/p>\n<p>I attribute the wretchedness to the consumption of 3 Redline Ultra Hardcore about 2 hours before the run, plus general dehydration in light of the pills but also in light of my resistance to drink a lot of water just before a run (for fear of needing to go to the bathroom).  Of those two factors, the Redline was probably more the culprit as I barely ever have trained with energy pills in my system, especially not in warm weather.  Another factor is that I&#8217;m not quite fit yet, running at an 8:00 pace per mile rather than something more than a minute faster like last year.  I should note, too, that around mile 2, I felt pain in my kidney area (middle back), which could be related to strain on my kidneys.<\/p>\n<p>Whatever.  The more important thing about this run is my Garmin!  So far so good.  The reviews I heard about this wonderful device were far from absolutely glowing, since apparently this bezel on the watch (or &#8220;super-watch,&#8221; as I preferred to call it to Elizabeth) goes unresponsive or just darn crazy when it gets wet.  The advice I heard was to lock the bezel when running to avoid this spasming, and as much as that didn&#8217;t sound like an ideal solution, it seemed to work for me!  I turned the Auto Scroll on to Medium and it seemed to be fine.  It beeped at every mile (each mile was considered a lap), and it also gave me my instantaneous pace.  From the watch, I learned that my pace slowed down considerably in the second half of my run (it&#8217;s hillier).  Interesting!  I foresee great possibilities with this watch, though I&#8217;m curious what frustrations might be lurking when I train with it in wet weather.  Will I be able to set the darn thing if it&#8217;s raining when I start?<\/p>\n<p>As for Elizabeth, she was showing me up in places during the run (she was passing guys quite often!), though we were overall pretty evenly matched.  That was a great feeling.  She has a Philly 10-mile race coming up in 3 weeks and I foresee good things for her.  She strikes me as just competitive enough to impress herself with her finish time in that race.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today&#8217;s run was a warm, slightly hazy 65 degrees in Central Park with Elizabeth Corkum. It was a run of a couple firsts. First Number 1? My first official run using my Garmin Forerunner 405CX. First Number 2? Upon completion of 6.3 miles, just after a final sprint, I convulsed twice and almost vomited. That&#8217;s &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/benhauck.com\/running\/2010\/04\/11\/running-with-garmin-and-elizabeth-too\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Running with Garmin (and Elizabeth, Too!)<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-189","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-runs"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/benhauck.com\/running\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/189","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/benhauck.com\/running\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/benhauck.com\/running\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/benhauck.com\/running\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/benhauck.com\/running\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=189"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/benhauck.com\/running\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/189\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":297,"href":"https:\/\/benhauck.com\/running\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/189\/revisions\/297"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/benhauck.com\/running\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=189"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/benhauck.com\/running\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=189"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/benhauck.com\/running\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=189"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}