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.
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Judy Nelson said,
May 11, 2008 @ 7:12 pm
Hey Don:
Saw you in Portland at EPA. Great message. Thanks. Guess this is another “inciting incident” for you. Go, Don. I’ll follow your trip. Hope your buns don’t get too sore! Cool challenge. Thanks for turning me on to your pastor as well. I’ve been listening to some of his messages. Great stuff.
Press on, brother.
Judy