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Sunday, December 27, 2009
GPS Watch

Ok Gina got me about the coolest Christmas present this year. A Garmin GPS watch.

Now I am a bit of a tech junkie but this one has to be the coolest. It has a huge number of options but the basic cool ones are the coolest.

You start the timer, run your route and the stop it when you're done. Then you plug it into your computer and see you top speed, average speed, top and average heart rate, how many hills you climbed, what your pace was, and exactly how far you ran. Plus you can look while your running and see how far you have come, your pace, etc.

Once you've set up some of your courses (it shows you a GPS map of the course on the watch and the computer after you've run it) then you can choose trainer option and complete against yourself from the last time you ran, all in real time so you know if you're in front, or behind your last pace. No more remembering land marks and times.

This watch is about the coolest thing for exercisers, and it gets better. It also lets you do the same thing if you are biking too, so you can track all of the bike rides you been on.

Now it's not cheap but if you want a very cool training piece of equipment, I'd suggest it. Gina got mine at Costco. You can look at a page about it here. https://buy.garmin.com/shop/shop.do?pID=349&
amp;ra=true#

Have fun tracking.

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