Following yesterday’s 10 mile runs, I was at work last night finishing at 7 this morning. I rushed home and managed a couple of hours sleep before the alarm went off. I was up, dressed and out of the door by 10, driving to the Centurion Grand Prix. I arrived in plenty of time and…

My training plan called for 10 miles today. Being a Saturday means it’s parkrun-day. Now parkrun is only 5k (a little over 3 miles) so I needed to add another 7 miles somewhere. I decided after planning a few options (with plotaroute – see last post HERE) to park a bit further away from the…

When planning a new route, I often use the Add Workout / Draw Route For New Workout option of endomondo. Endomondo uses some variant of Google Maps but for some strange reason does not show train lines nor Railway Stations – useful if you’re planning on using the train to get to or from your…

Following on from my last post, I recorded my run today, as usual on my Forerunner 230 GPS watch and on my GPSMap 62s hand held GPS. I ran, according to the watch, 4 miles. At this point, the GPSMap was only showing 3.96 miles so I ran on until it too read 4 miles….

As you, probably, know I record most of my runs and walks on my Garmin Forerunner 230. Using GPS, it logs my progress giving me up-to -the-minute information such as distance travelled, time elapsed, pace, heart rate. Post activity, the data are uploaded to endomondo and Garmin connect. The recording is great – while it…