entries tagged 'running'
Sporttracks; a free alternative to Garmin Training Center
I've been training for the London Marathon and bought a Garmin Forerunner 305 GPS to monitor my progress and hopefully motivate me to push that bit harder. The GPS device itself is great and manages to find satellites fairly quickly (about a minute, slightly longer in very built-up areas) when outside and track them without losing signal thereafter. The Garmin Training Center (I was running GTC v3.4.3) however is shocking; my only assumption is that Garmin wanted to keep the cost down so invested everything into the device and let their users find alternative software. Kind of ...
Full entry: http://www.martynj.com/sporttracks-free-alternative-to-garmin
Running the London Marathon
I managed to haul myself around the London Marathon at the weekend in a respectable (for me) 3 hr 20 min. Although hard work, particularly in the last 10 miles, the atmosphere was fantastic with crowds lining the route all the way. It was a great challenge that's left me in two minds whether or not to do it again next year! My training had been a bit on the short-but-fast side with the single longest run at ~18 miles and the second longest being the Brighton half marathon a couple of months previously. Doing 9-10 milers at a ...
Full entry: http://www.martynj.com/running-london-marathon