Running the
Orange
County
Marathon
with the Garmin 205.
From:
Charles Sayles [mailto:charles@csayles.com]
Sent: Tuesday, January 09, 2007 12:26 AM
To:
Cc: Esquivel, Lorie;
Subject: Running the
On Sunday
I ran the Orange County Marathon and I used my new Garmin 205 for the first time
in a marathon.
The
biggest problem, and one that I have experienced on training runs, is that
pushing the “lap” button on the face of the watch does not always end one
lap and start the next. This is not good since I like to record the time it took
to run each mile.
I don’t
know if this is a problem with this particular watch, or the way and the mode
that I am using it. My work around for this problem is to hit the
start/stop button. (This momentarily stops the watch). Then I hit the lap
button, now it indicates the time of that lap, then hit the start/stop again.
And of course try to get all of this done in a fraction of a second. One
mile 11 I forgot to hit the start/stop a second time. When I realized what
had happened nearly 5 minutes had gone by. Going back over the data
I could tell from the start time of the previous lap, the time of the previous
lap, and the start time of the next lap, the total time of the lap in question.
My total
distance for this marathon was 26.44 miles, and the various miles were measured
to be between 0.99 miles and 1.02 miles. (One case was off and the mile
was1.09 miles, but the next was 0.93 miles for an average of 1.01).
To the
extent the data can be believed it indicated a total ascent of 5302 feet and
total decent of 5231 feet. For me that is hard to believe on the relative
flat
Another
hard to believe statistic was that I burned 4028 calories. I had
always thought the rough rule of thumb was 100 calories per mile.
You were
right about my hamstring bothering me. I have the problem in the
past, and on those occasions after running a quarter of mile or so, the pain
goes away. But not on Sunday. At mile 2 I thought seriously of
giving up.
However, I
knew my son and his family would be waiting for me at Mile 12, where the route
goes by his office. Of the 78 marathons I have done, this is only the
second time that a family member has come out to see me run, and this time one
of the members was my grandson. So, I went on. At mile 10 I gave my
son a call to say that I was running behind schedule. Eventually I
made it to Mile 12 and we took pictures to record the event. After that I
thought ‘what is the hurry?’, and why hurt myself further, and changed from
a running marathon (okay – run/walk marathon) to a walking marathon. I
figure that as the years go by and I get into my 70’s and 80’s I will be
walking more, so I used this as practice on walking a marathon. I
once heard
Attached
are two pictures. One is of me, my son, and grandson. The
other taken at the Expo shows me and
Charles