Because who doesn't love 400s? And I took the Garmin, just in case the track was unavailable and I would need to ad lib something on the roads. Here's what the Garmin thought of the workout. I think it's interesting that the Garmin measured each 400 rep and 200 recovery a bit long. I didn't notice until I looked at it on MB because I was basically using it as an oversized stopwatch. I turned of auto-lap and just used the lap timer for each 400. The other interesting thing from the Garmin data is the elevation chart, just because it brings into focus the huge difference between running on the track and running on the roads. It becomes very clear the danger of doing too much work on the track when you're training to race on the roads.

That thread is really funny. You see that all the time. I know from workouts that the Garmin is NOT accurate enough to measure race courses, let alone a track. Very few race courses are off by much and the ones that are generally are not off by enough to measure with a Garmin. The one exception I can rember is a formerly certified 8K that was somewhere between 160-200m short because nobody followed the original certified map--I think I know where they cut the course too. Eric : ) himself was running around questioning the course length after the race because his GPS said it was well short. I was one of the people poo pooing the idea of measuring a race course with a GPS...dammit turns out he was right about that one. There goes that PR. Re: the norther corner. The sattelite pictures are osolete here. The track is now a tad wider and has moved about 10m to the north. All part of a big high school renovation. The track, athletic fields, driveways were all reconfigured and the school itself is all new. The big gray rectangle to the west of the track is the new soccer/lacross field being built, so this picture is probably about 1.5-2 years old. The new track is spectacular. One of the nicest tracks I've ever run on. Actually, that one big wide turn I made may be for real...there was a dad playing soccer with his kids on the field and at one point during a recovery jog I took it wide to retrieve their ball that was up against the fence at the northwest end of the track.

Do just hit a split/lap button like on a regular watch?

Yup, for that workout I had turned off all automatic lap recording etc. and I wasn't doing a pre-programmed workout so I just hit the lap button when I needed just like a regular stopwatch.

The 400s were fun, weren't they? Go ahead. Admit it. I won't tell.

Yeah. It was a blast, actually.