New Toy, New Job, New Start...
Greetings,
This past Friday I made a trip to my favorite sporting goods store, Scheels, in Fargo, ND to pick up an item I've had my eye on for too long. The Garmin Forerunner 205 GPS monitor for running is something I've been looking to get for a long time. I got it for about $160 total with the tax included, $150 retail. Saturday & Sunday were some okay days to test it out. The weather was warmer, but slushy roads and wet, cloudy, foggy conditions have taken over here as of late. Not a pleasant run, but a run outside for once, nonetheless!
Saturday's run was an out & back run to the cemetery, a 2.21-2.22 ish total run from my house and back. My guess of a 2.25 mile run from last week wasn't that far off, I'd say.
Sunday's run was a spin through the various streets of Finley, as I was more interested in the elevation points & climbs of certain hills throughout my town. Some of the run was taken on part of the town's 5K route for our summer 5K race. Some hills had a 40 foot climb over just one block length. Only just 2 miles ran on this one.
I'm not sure how totally accurate the elevation point data was, because of all the cloudy conditions I was running in. Speed-wise, it seemed fine though.
The things I really like about my new Garmin Forerunner 205 are:
1. Easy software system to figure out. I used to have a Timex Ironman GPS system with data collector from a few years ago (no longer works), so I had something good to compare it to. This told you more, and I am not even through looking at all of it yet.
2. There are zones setup for how much time you spent in each zone, tallied up for you at the end of your run in a spreadsheet-like format for evaluation. Average Pace & Max Speed's are also given for your run total.
3. You can see your running route's data points get transferred over to Google Earth, giving you a nice satellite image of your run. If I were coaching cross-country again, this would be a great aid in helping me make a running course map for the XC meets. I can see this being helpful if you go to other towns and run 5K's, letting you track the course route during your race, and being able to go back & map that route out if you wanted to go to the town & prepare yourself for the race route for upcoming races.
4. I love the Current Speed option of getting that read to you while on your run. It's just like seeing your MPH readout on your treadmill.
5. I like the 20 hour battery it has. Not that I'll be running for that long, but its helpful to know its full of energy for that long.
All in all, I feel this new toy will help me a lot in speed workouts and evaluating my runs even further.
In other news, I have a new job: junior high head coach for track! I'm also in charge of the long distance crews as an assistant for the high school team. We are a pretty small squad, between 30-35 total, 7th-12th. I am really excited to get back into coaching the 800, 1600, and 3200 events. You will probably see a few of our team workouts put on the blog now & then. I can't give away all my secrets, though.
All in all, its a great new start in this journey I call my life. I'm happy to get back into coaching runners for track, happy I got a new toy to help me coach better & run better, and other things in my life are really coming together too.
In closing, you know I'm all about high intensity workouts for strength & speed development. Well, a trainer named Virgil Aponte has been widely known as "The Stair Man" when it comes to using stairs to help you get fit, strong, and fast.
He's having quite a deal this week on his products on his Ultimate Stair Exercises websites. I have a few free reports to share with you to view, so take a look & educate yourself a bit on how stairs can be a great option in your training.
I've had a sneak peak at Virgil's products, and I can say he's really got some GREAT workouts offered in his workout guides. Being in ND, we don't have much in rural ND for series of stairs to climb (no tall business buildings). But, we do use hills the best we can, and many of these ideas can be applied to hill training.
Stair Climbing Basics:
http://asapworkouts.com/Basics.pdf
Stair Climbing Lunge Variations:
http://asapworkouts.com/Lunges.pdf
Special Stair Climbing Report:
http://asapworkouts.com/SCReport.pdf
Run Strong, Run Fast...
Run So As To Win!
Coach Rick Karboviak
http://1MileNation.com
http://MakeVarsity.com
This past Friday I made a trip to my favorite sporting goods store, Scheels, in Fargo, ND to pick up an item I've had my eye on for too long. The Garmin Forerunner 205 GPS monitor for running is something I've been looking to get for a long time. I got it for about $160 total with the tax included, $150 retail. Saturday & Sunday were some okay days to test it out. The weather was warmer, but slushy roads and wet, cloudy, foggy conditions have taken over here as of late. Not a pleasant run, but a run outside for once, nonetheless!
Saturday's run was an out & back run to the cemetery, a 2.21-2.22 ish total run from my house and back. My guess of a 2.25 mile run from last week wasn't that far off, I'd say.
Sunday's run was a spin through the various streets of Finley, as I was more interested in the elevation points & climbs of certain hills throughout my town. Some of the run was taken on part of the town's 5K route for our summer 5K race. Some hills had a 40 foot climb over just one block length. Only just 2 miles ran on this one.
I'm not sure how totally accurate the elevation point data was, because of all the cloudy conditions I was running in. Speed-wise, it seemed fine though.
The things I really like about my new Garmin Forerunner 205 are:
1. Easy software system to figure out. I used to have a Timex Ironman GPS system with data collector from a few years ago (no longer works), so I had something good to compare it to. This told you more, and I am not even through looking at all of it yet.
2. There are zones setup for how much time you spent in each zone, tallied up for you at the end of your run in a spreadsheet-like format for evaluation. Average Pace & Max Speed's are also given for your run total.
3. You can see your running route's data points get transferred over to Google Earth, giving you a nice satellite image of your run. If I were coaching cross-country again, this would be a great aid in helping me make a running course map for the XC meets. I can see this being helpful if you go to other towns and run 5K's, letting you track the course route during your race, and being able to go back & map that route out if you wanted to go to the town & prepare yourself for the race route for upcoming races.
4. I love the Current Speed option of getting that read to you while on your run. It's just like seeing your MPH readout on your treadmill.
5. I like the 20 hour battery it has. Not that I'll be running for that long, but its helpful to know its full of energy for that long.
All in all, I feel this new toy will help me a lot in speed workouts and evaluating my runs even further.
In other news, I have a new job: junior high head coach for track! I'm also in charge of the long distance crews as an assistant for the high school team. We are a pretty small squad, between 30-35 total, 7th-12th. I am really excited to get back into coaching the 800, 1600, and 3200 events. You will probably see a few of our team workouts put on the blog now & then. I can't give away all my secrets, though.
All in all, its a great new start in this journey I call my life. I'm happy to get back into coaching runners for track, happy I got a new toy to help me coach better & run better, and other things in my life are really coming together too.
In closing, you know I'm all about high intensity workouts for strength & speed development. Well, a trainer named Virgil Aponte has been widely known as "The Stair Man" when it comes to using stairs to help you get fit, strong, and fast.
He's having quite a deal this week on his products on his Ultimate Stair Exercises websites. I have a few free reports to share with you to view, so take a look & educate yourself a bit on how stairs can be a great option in your training.
I've had a sneak peak at Virgil's products, and I can say he's really got some GREAT workouts offered in his workout guides. Being in ND, we don't have much in rural ND for series of stairs to climb (no tall business buildings). But, we do use hills the best we can, and many of these ideas can be applied to hill training.
Stair Climbing Basics:
http://asapworkouts.com/Basics.pdf
Stair Climbing Lunge Variations:
http://asapworkouts.com/Lunges.pdf
Special Stair Climbing Report:
http://asapworkouts.com/SCReport.pdf
Run Strong, Run Fast...
Run So As To Win!
Coach Rick Karboviak
http://1MileNation.com
http://MakeVarsity.com
Posted by 1 Mile Nation at 3/9/2010 5:50 PM 
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