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December 04, 2005

1:30:06/160

A strange 19.6 km (12.2 mi) run this morning. For some reason I couldn't get comfortable until I'd gone about 16 km (10 mi). Then everything clicked and felt fairly good. Ran too fast for about 3 km, adding a couple of sprints, then wound down. I'd've gone further but figured Nathalie might need help getting lunch ready, and wanted to get to the bakery before they ran out of baguette.

Yesterday I bought new cold weather running gear, including a thin insulated top with long arms that have thumb holes at the end. when you put your gloves on, no wrist is exposed at all. The top breathes well, and the bottoms reach down far enough not to ride up over the socks.

If any of you are planning your own line of running sportswear, I still have two tips: 1) Don't put labels inside the clothes. If you need to mention it's machine washable at 30 C, just print that somewhere around the waistband or collar. None of us will care whether someone else can see the information, but we'll appreciate not having scratchy labels. The labels that seem innocuous when you try on the article may be irritating 10 miles later. 2) Guys need insulation around the front and sides of the knees and from the front to the back of the crotch. The rest of the bottoms can be regular spandex, but these parts shouldn't.

Posted by Mark at December 4, 2005 04:09 PM

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Went for my first run today at the new house. Went approximately 5.3 miles. I have found that the pedometer that works with the google maps is very accurate but there is a problem. Their map is incorrect where I run. The Google Maps site has it right but the pedometer site has it wrong. If you notice, the copyright info on the maps at the two sites is different. The book that we bought on our visit in January that is a highly detailed county map of Buncombe county is also wrong and has the same copyright notation as the pedometer site. I believe, after studying the differences, that the state road 151 that is .35 miles from our house has been straighten in the last ten years or so and has led to a substantial difference in the intersection near our house. Google maps and Mapquest have it correct but there is no pedometer function there. So, my distance has to be a rather accurate estimation until I can measure with a bicycle cyclometer or the GPS. I think the bike cyclometer maybe the most accurate if I use the "roll out" method of measuring the wheel circumference rather than taking the default value for my wheel size (I think the default values are off about 1.5 - 2% with 80-90 lb pressure tires and about .9% with 120 lb pressure tires.)

It was a very pleasant, slow run, about 64 degrees when I left and 62 degrees when I finished. There was a high of 29 degrees and snowing in Michigan City today.

Posted by: Dana at December 4, 2005 11:52 PM

Sounds like a good time to go for a run, especially compared to the running weather in Michigan City. Cold for Kauai as Andy would say, but good running weather nevertheless.

Wish we had a pedometer application that worked as well as the gmaps pedometer application for the US. You're probably right about the bicycle being a pretty accurate way of measuring the distance, probably more accurate than the car.

Posted by: Mark at December 5, 2005 02:40 PM