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Win A Garmin FR60!

If you’re the proud owner of a Garmin fitness device and have never got around to opening a Garmin Connect account, you may be glad you waited! Anyone who registers for Garmin Connect between February 10th and March 31st will be automatically entered to win a new FR60 limited-edition fitness watch with bold colors and [...]


Garmin Forerunner 405 Custom Workout

Lots of talk over at dailymile.com right now about the Garmin Virtual Partner and Garmin Custom/Advanced Workouts (partly my fault for keep mentioning it I suppose….) Hence tonight’s workout of the Garmin Custom variety: To set up one of these workouts, you’ll need to open up your Garmin Training Center software and add the various [...]


Virtual Partner Nine Miler

Set the Garmin Virtual Guy to run 9 miles at 7:27 pace and ended up with a really enjoyable “easy” run to take me to 60 miles for the week for the first time since early March. Honestly, it took a lot of self control to hold back and run 7:27s, but the slower pace [...]


2009 Frederick Marathon Splits

Just thought I’d post my splits from yesterday’s Frederick Marathon in which I finished 14th place overall in 3:02:11. Actually I don’t have all the splits; as I mentioned in an earlier post, my Garmin 405 starting acting up in the rain and stopped working after Mile 16. Here’s what I have though: 6:34 6:40 [...]


Ten More Miles

Another nice endurance building run this evening. Covered just over ten miles in a little under 75 minutes. It was warm (70°F!) and very humid and took me back to the evening training runs leading up to the Richmond Marathon. I started slowly with a 7:56 opening mile, and for the remainder of the run [...]


End Of The Road For Garmin Forerunner 305?

Spent some time last night updating various software versions for my Garmin Forerunner 305Yesterday I thought I’d failed to charged my Garmin 305 correctly and therefore didn’t/couldn’t use it on my 15 mile long run. Today, despite being on charge for almost 24 hours, the same thing happened and the screen went blank as soon [...]