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| How much technology do you take running....? (Read 471 times) |
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posted: 6/25/2007 at 2:26 PM |
Quote from va on 6/25/2007 at 1:03 PM:
Please can you give me more to work on....? |
| The best route to run is one which takes you furthest from the staff canteen.... |
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posted: 6/25/2007 at 2:54 PM |
Did you select the hyperlink? It takes you to a calculator. Enter a distance and a time you have completed that distance in. Also, enter your weight (with gadgets). Press "calculate".
This will show you how much time you would save, by losing weight (e.g., losing your gadgets). |
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posted: 6/25/2007 at 3:05 PM |
| Based on the fact that your gear weighs less than 1 pound - I would say the effect is negligible. |
Your monkey gives me the creeps. - andahuff
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posted: 6/25/2007 at 3:17 PM |
| Quote from Bonkin on 6/25/2007 at 3:05 PM: Based on the fact that your gear weighs less than 1 pound - I would say the effect is negligible.
Physically negligible, but I have found that the "occasional" stops to fiddle with / adjust gear can be a definite slow-down factor. |
20th Century: 800m: 2:04 |1600m: 4:37 |3200m: 10:06 |5k: 16:23 |10k: 35:38 |15k: 54:20
25k: 1:35:59
21st Century: 5k: 19:42 |10k: 43:00
"Do not allow children to mix drinks. It is unseemly, and they use too much vermouth."
Steve Allen |
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posted: 6/25/2007 at 3:17 PM |
| The only technology I wear is a simple watch with a chronograph. I only use it at the start of my run when i hit the "start" button and at the end when I hit the "stop" button. I feel like all those other gadgets are too much of a distraction from the simplicity of running. |
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posted: 6/25/2007 at 4:30 PM
modified: 6/25/2007 at 4:30 PM |
| Quote from mbotti on 6/25/2007 at 3:17 PM: The only technology I wear is a simple watch with a chronograph. I only use it at the start of my run when i hit the "start" button and at the end when I hit the "stop" button. I feel like all those other gadgets are too much of a distraction from the simplicity of running.
Ah, another purist. You sound like someone I once knew.
Jeffgoblue circa 1995: "Who needs all this crap? Just shut up and run, I say!"
Jeffgoblue 2007: Well after owning it for 4 days, I can say that I love the Garmin Forerunner 305. And I'm not talking sweet, cute puppy love, I'm talking hot GPS action! |
20th Century: 800m: 2:04 |1600m: 4:37 |3200m: 10:06 |5k: 16:23 |10k: 35:38 |15k: 54:20
25k: 1:35:59
21st Century: 5k: 19:42 |10k: 43:00
"Do not allow children to mix drinks. It is unseemly, and they use too much vermouth."
Steve Allen |
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posted: 6/25/2007 at 6:28 PM |
So, using the weight-loss formula, I could improve my 5 mile time by 10 seconds. That's 2 seconds a mile  I think I'd save more if I had a good hircut  |
| The best route to run is one which takes you furthest from the staff canteen.... |
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posted: 6/26/2007 at 2:39 AM |
During races --- just my Garmin.
During training runs -- Garmin (205) and iPod! |
| 2009: BQ? |
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posted: 6/26/2007 at 5:18 PM |
| Quote from modal on 6/26/2007 at 4:23 PM:
How do you folks carry your cellphone without pockets? Clips? In a neck baggy?
Since I wander in the woods alone, I (reluctantly) carry my cell phone on all runs in the pocket that attaches to this belt. If I don't wear the belt, then I just clip my cell to my waistband. That, however, doesn't work well as the phone's a little heavy for lighter weight summer waistbands.
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posted: 6/26/2007 at 5:56 PM |
| Quote from modal on 6/26/2007 at 4:23 PM: How do you folks carry your cellphone without pockets? Clips? In a neck baggy?
Just the Garmin. For long runs, I usually bring the Camelbak for water - if I bring this then I'll usually put the phone in the pocket of the Camelbak. |
Your monkey gives me the creeps. - andahuff
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posted: 6/26/2007 at 8:05 PM |
I have a cheap ass Timex watch and a tiny lil shuffle.
Not running fast, anyway. Just out there to run.  |
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posted: 6/27/2007 at 12:41 PM |
I either wear my Timex GPS system or my Garmin 201. If I know the mileage where I am running I will just wear the watch of my Timex system and leave the GPS transmitter in the truck.
It took me a while to see that I had become a prisoner to the "gadgets" and it was taking my joy away, so now, even when I wear them I use them more for tracking distance or for pace if I do speed work.
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