Nice, I got 21'22 at the parkrun today1 that is 1) a new personal best but more importantly 2) three seconds faster than Jules' best 5km. I was not expecting a brilliant one today, but had been thinking I'll record some better times during dryanuary. A nice surprise! Was cold out, and I was a bit worried about not bringing gloves or anything while I was cycling there, but I soon warmed up. Couple of few little things that might have made a difference today. That was the first run with the new Garmin Fenix watch - I had been joking about it making me run faster, but of course it can't have done on its own. I was pleased to see that the time and distance worked out on the watch GPS exactly matched my official time, the times on the Fitbit used to vary quite a bit. Second I did not run with my phone today, don't need to know as the watch does audio and has GPS. This meant I didn't need my little bum bag so maybe that extra weight difference changed things. Then finally I had no headphones today either, so no podcast to listen to. I had put music and podcasts on the new watch, and paired it with the headphones and all was good. Then at the last minute I put runcasts.com software on there to try it out, and that seems to have hidden all the other content from the watch. So no soundst top play.
Podcasts and audio are a bit fiddly on the watch, options are either use runcasts, or use itunes and sync it manually. Runcasts is way too complicated and they want $5 per month for it2 no thanks. Syncing it manually is also a bit of a faff, I don't want to use itunes. I don't mind plugging the watch into the computer (though it has wifi and should be able to sync without that) but if I do plug in I want it to sync everything from a folder I decide.
The older Garmin watches show up as a drive that you can drag content onto when you plug them in, but this one no.
Anyway, after the run we went to Folkestone for lunch, and we had some fun there, I will be back to update details in a bit. TL;DR don't go to Bronx Deli in Folkestone.
5k: Five km, about three miles in old money.
dryanuary: Not drinking for all of January.
Paul Clarke's blog - I live in Hythe near Folkestone. Wed and dad to two, I'm a full-stack web engineer, and I do mostly javascript / nodejs, some ruby, python, php etc. I like pubbing, parkrun, restaurants, home-automation + other diy stuff, history, tree stuff, Television, squirrels, pirates, lego, and time travel.