Training Log Archive: CleverSky

Mystery Blazes LSwamp. Breaking trail in a couple of inches of crusty snow. Some footprints out there, but no sign of snowmobiles or ATVs since the last snowfall. Looks like the distance estimate I've been using (7 km) was a little high, but not too far off, really.

50 situps.

50 situps.

50 situps, 10 pullups, 25 pushups, 25 squats.

50 situps

10 pullups, 50 situps, 25 squats, 25 pushups.

Well... I got a new toy, and it's supposed to be that there's a little blue circle on this entry showing where I went. Unfortunately I haven't been able to get my computer to talk to the watch. It took some gymnastics to even get the computer to talk to the USB ANT+ stick, but it's still not finding the watch. I was hoping this would be easy, being the modern era and all, and I assume lots of people do this succesfully, but...

Okay, I figured it out. That was appallingly obscure. Garmin should be embarrassed.

The slush that's left from the snow we had made any notion of venturing into the woods unappealing in any of the gear that I own, so I just headed out into the fog to do a loop of the roads to see how this new Garmin 405CX does in terms of positional accuracy. I turned around at the bridge on Holman because it was still covered in glop, and I went down to the lake to take a gander to see if prospects looked good for smooth ice if it gets cold again. But visibility was so low that I couldn't see the lake from the road.

Determined that I needed to change some settings on the watch so that it doesn't periodically beep at me in an annoying way. Not too impressed so far, but just as I finally got with the program and acquired a Casio splits watch in the summer of 1990, maybe this is something that will grow on me.

Accuracy looks overall not too bad (about like my other GPS, I guess), though I'm surprised that it drifted some on Turkey Hill Rd., where sky visibility ought to be great, and it really kind of fell apart on the last climb.

C • ANT+ 11