FreeSoul: I had my 220 for 3 years and finally replaced it for the same reason a few weeks ago. Battery life was dwindling. I got the 235 and am impressed that I can wear it nonstop for an entire week before having to charge it.

 

3 recovery miles after work before strength training.

 

Has the group decided what my next marathon should be? I'm looking for fall (Nov or Dec, ideally) and somewhere in the Western half of the US. So far I've done CIM and Arizona RNR in Phoenix. I loved CIM and would do it again if I don't come up with any other ideas...but I don't know how many of these I'll do so would like to not repeat one. And I need it to be cooler than the 70 degrees that killed me during Arizona.

Yeah, the 220 was really good at the start and for the past 2 years until this year it just started..... sadly. I really love it, even replaced the bands last year because the originals had ripped apart.

I figure the 25 will work for me this year, not sure about next year's goal though, might end up buying the 235 after Indy.

FS - the FR35 has the ability to program an interval workout into it, which the 25 doesn't.

It started snowing last night and it is supposed to continue more or less until Tuesday with a mixture of snow and freezing rain. I'll do some miles on the TM later.

I work for a Japanese-owned company, and we have a few expats on site. Whenever one of them comes back from a trip to Japan, they bring a box of something for the break room. Gifts are a big cultural tradition. It is always a very elegant box with fancy individually wrapped cookies or whatever. The problem is all the labeling is in Japanese so you have no idea what you’re getting. It’s Japanese gift box roulette. Could taste like a normal cookie, or it could taste like fish. What they ought to do is just bring back Kit Kats. They are huge over there; became popular in part because the name sounds similar to a Japanese phrase meaning “you will surely win”, so they’re considered good luck. They are made in dozens of different flavors you can only get in Japan. On one trip I made there, my wife gave me the mission to bring home Green Tea Kit Kats. They were actually really good.

 

Lol

I also work for a Japanese company and have learned to not try any of the goodies except the Kit Kats. We have enough people with adventurous palates that the gifts still get eaten and I don't end up gagging.

I sometimes eat them, but I use the more adventurous people as taste-testers.

I work for a Japanese-owned company

I would love to visit Japen someday. It's alluring.

I was just looking at the list of Grammy nominees and winners and recognize almost none of the people listed.    I am so old.

Hello, veteran young guy. In time, you'll come to embrace this ignorance and the accompanying insults, as you'll eventually lack the patience or give-a-fuckness to process any of it.

Sincerely,

Rookie old guy

 

Hello, veteran young guy. In time, you'll come to embrace this ignorance and the accompanying insults, as you'll eventually lack the patience or give-a-fuckness to process any of it.

 

Sincerely,

 

Rookie old guy

I watched the Grammy's for about 3 minutes before slapping myself.

If I had the opportunity to present one gift to the world, and it could be anything with no limitations, it would be to make Cyberic99''s log display in miles instead of kilometers.

LOL!!!! What do you want to know? I'll translate it for you.

MTA:

The workout is 20 minutes of fartlek including float recoveries, done as follows:

-2x90 seconds hard with 90 seconds float rec
-4x60 seconds hard, 60 seconds float rec
-4x30 seconds hard, 30 seconds float rec
-4x15 seconds hard, 15 seconds float rec

Only checked my watch in the float recoveries parts, and tried not to slow down under MP. The hard parts were done by feeling.

Ended up doing 5.07 km in the 20 minutes, which would have been a good Tempo workout if I had kept the pace steady, except I did it by constantly changing the pace. It gets fun in the 30 seconds, and crazy/wild in the 15 seconds part.