Kicking off the week

I am coming back.
Sad to say that according to my run this morning, I am 2 minutes per mile slower than in April, when I ran at Big Sur. And I only ran 2 miles. So what if the temps were already in the 70's? I also discovered that my usual 2-mile route is short. I had to go another half block to make up the .05 mile shortfall. I was so annoyed. Joseph told me that on the days when it is crowded and I have to run around people, I will put on more miles than on a less crowded day like today. The sad part is that most of the time that I run this route, it's about as crowded as it was this morning. Which means that I've been logging my .95 mile runs as 1 mile. AND cutting it short because I didn't run to the edge of the block. grrr.... And HOW did I know this? With my all too handy dandy new toy, the Polar R200sd. On Saturday, we went to the MIT track and calibrated it. Thank goodness Joseph was there. I would have taken me an hour instead of the time it took me to run the mile to calibrate and to verify the calibration.

My new toy has a few "view settings" where you can see what's going on. They even let you change the display. Ideally, I would like pace, distance, countdown timer, and heart rate. Sometimes I might even like the total time. The problem is that I only get 3 lines per display and I need 5. There are five displays. You can scroll through all the displays while running but that's kind of a pain. I need to figure out two displays and just scroll back and forth between them. That's MUCH better than scrolling through 5 displays all the time. I am also going to switch my Heart Rate display to show percentage HR instead of the BPM. Much easier to figure out my target zone as opposed to worrying about BPM and mentally calculating it. Other than that, I am done setting up the new toy. The only other thing I can do is use the computer and I am not ready to be that anal.

[WHY IS THE DAMN DINGLE WHINING??? ARG!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!]
Excuse me...
...ok... that's better....

I would also like to note that I've gained back enough poundage over the weekend of eating out to take me back to LAST TUESDAY! BAH! So, today starts anew my 4-5 meal a day eating plan. I should have this weight dropped in about two days.

Tomorrow, I have 4 miles. I need to get out there earlier or the heat is gonna kill me.