Mother Nature had some negative ideas about my running this morning, she thought rain would be lovely. However, after a long stressful day at work, I convinced myself to go for a run this evening. I do so love this time of year, as I can run after work and not die of heat exhaustion. After a run everything seems so much better. It was a good decision.
As I was adding up my mileage for the week, it occurred to be that I really ought to paying more attention to my tracker. I did 2.13m in 20min flat on Tuesday. That's pretty good for me on a casual run. Frequently I run, shut off the tracker, feed the horse and rush to the house to get ready for work. One more reason I love technology. I used to enter it all my exercise into my excel program. Before that it was my handy dandy notebook. I think it's my father's (the teacher) fault--I always keep records.
I just got an iPhone recently and I picked a exercise app rather at random: there are so of them! I use Endomondo and I love it mostly because it does a lot of exercise types, including riding. I have to admit it is funny to see my riding on the GPS tracker when I ride in the ring. It is also very easy to use and I like being able to see it on my computer. It shows me a month and what I did when. It also shows me my benchmark among my peers also using Endomondo. That was rather depressing in the early summer, when I was in the lower 25%. But then I started increasing! Now it's fun to look.
I don't always have to have the newest gadgets--not bothering with the iPhone 6--but I do enjoy what they can do for us.
Evening Run
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