Time to reconnect with my running blog. The running didn't stop over the holiday period - well, maybe for a week while we digested turkey and mince pies. But the blogging did.
So I have five minutes to spare, and have been for a run tonight, after which I discovered something about my heart rate monitor. Every run I wear it without fail. I've had it for a couple of years now and prior to running wore it on my cross trainer. But even though I have transported the manual around the house, leaving it in various strategic reading locations, I still have never gotten past the page with the diagram naming all the buttons. This is nothing new, it is my usual manual avoidance practice. Instead my training on the device has consisted solely over that period of pressing various different sequences of buttons and trying to figure out what it can do. Then when I find something useful I try and remember what sequence I pressed... and fail. You would think that would encourage me to... read the manual. But no. It doesn't.
So tonight, sequence of buttons pressed, I discovered that I can find out how much time was spent running 'light', 'medium' or 'hard'. It turns out that we run 20 seconds light, 2.8mins medium and 25.5min hard. Outstanding you think! I did. Then remembered that is simply an indication of the extreme hills we have to climb up puffing, not an outstanding comment on my running ability.
I was so impressed with my discovery though that I forgot to check my usual stats. Still, I've shaved the run down to 28.50 seconds. Red face factor = extreme.
