Oh friends, we are one "jing jingler and hoo hoobler" over the limit here in Sloan-ville. I absolutely Grinched out when I came in from my run this morning and found that Ivan was riding his singing rocking horse (I'm a little pony, clippity-clop, clippity clop, Such a pretty pony, clippity -clop, clippity-clop, I love to have my hair brushed beneath the old oak tree), while leaving his race-car console going, and squeezing his Baby Einstein car key set (which sets off a car alarm sound) while watching The Wiggles. "That's the one thing I hate: All the noise, noise, noise, noise!" I had to confiscate a few noisy things and pack them away. I am embarrassed to say that when I woke up this morning, I wished I could shut down our Christmas tree like an umbrella, just like the Grinch. I am thrilled that I can take down the tree. Between Ivan and the cat, I am just surprised that poor faux tree is still standing.
Anyway, Christmas was ever so lovely. I thoroughly enjoyed myself and received a cashmere sweater, Mizuno running shoes, a lovely pearl necklace, two books, a new raincoat, new perfume and THE GARMIN 310 XT. What bounty!!!
The Garmin is clearly the frontrunner for favorite gift received, but everything else is great as well. Now, the Garmin is a GPS system that automatically tracks my exact mileage and my splits. When I am finished with a workout, I just plug in a chip to my computer, and it automatically sends all the information into a spreadsheet so that I can see each mile-split, my elevation changes, and calories burned.
I ran eighteen miles, beginning at 6:00 AM. Now, the beauty of my watch was that we knew that we were approaching over 16 miles and we needed to add on to make 18 miles. After consulting my watch, we decided that we needed to add on 1.6, and we did this almost exactly. Then, we understood that we had run around an 8 mile pace throughout the run, which felt quite comfortable and conversational. This is great and gives me hope that my Boston training will go smoothly.
At home, I pulled up the spreadsheet of our mileage, splits and elevation and watched the map as my computer took me virtually over our route (please click on the links and look at the spreadsheets and such!!!) Then, I was able to send all this information to the people I ran with this morning. SO EXCITING. I burned 1700ish calories. Now, I am planning on figuring out how to put this all on the blog, because I am going to completely nerd out with the Garmin!! The Garmin has without a doubt revolutionized my athletic life.
At home, Ivan and I have gone for a long walk, played endlessly with noisy toys and watched the Wiggles. A lovely Christmas!!
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