Donald Miller and the Ride:Well Team Bike America

As I’ve started training for the ride, I picked up a gadget at REI called the Garmin 350. I actually got it on the cheap because it was on sale and I had a dividend so it was worth the twenty or so bucks I had to spend. I’ve become something of a data geek using this thing. The unit itself is just a watch that you can wear on your arm or place on the handlebars of your bike. It then works with satellites to give you your speed, distance traveled and all the other stuff a regular bike computer offers. Where it differs from normal computers is you can take it home and see a map of where you traveled, hi-lighting any way-points you clicked along the way. You can use the computer to compete against your best time, which it remembers, or have it guide you back home if you get lost. The Garmin 305 comes with a heart-rate monitor too, so you can see what your heart was doing when you fainted. Anyway, here is a map of tonight’s workout, a great ride out to St. Johns, then a stop at a pub in the NW, then a quick trip back home. Not a very long ride, but they will get longer as we get closer to the ride.