Runners
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Got a slightly used Coros Apex via Facebook marketplace for 200 usd, full retail is 300. Seems fine, and has a lot of the features I was looking for. Don’t know if I would have paid full price as I can get a discount on Suunto via work which makes their watch I was looking at about 70 bucks more, and it seems like that would be nicer in the end, though it sounds like their user interface is not well liked. If cost were no objective, probably would’ve went for one of Garmin Fenix 6 options. Like the solar one a lot. Unfortunately, cost is an objective.
I’ve only used it to track baby walks around the neighborhood so far, but the track looks very accurate. I can tell what side of the street I was on or places we walked in the street vs sidewalk to avoid obstacles. As DCrainmaker noted, some of the metrics in the app are weird. Today’s 4 mile walk at 17:25 a mile with 130 ft of gain gave me 46 points on their training load graph, yesterday’s 3 mile similar pace/gain got me 0 points. Looks like 120 is the max. So not sure how my easy short walk got over a third of those points.
Anyway, looks nice and isn’t too big on my skinny ass wrists.
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bloody brilliant @Brock
@neversummer enjoy it !!
I am still pretty happy with the Garmin 245, does what it should and don’t break the bank, tho the Fenix is nicer, but maybe not 500 more nicer…
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Did 30 miles in the Eagle Caps yesterday..
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That looks a 10. Where is that exactly?
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North east Oregon. In a Little town called Joseph.
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Prepping to run the Timberline Trail this Saturday.. 42 miles around Mt. Hood with 10,000’ of vert.
Getting stoked!
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Cross post from what are you doing today…
Instead of pictures I’ll just include my Strava link.
Circumnavigated Mt. Hood yesterday with some friends. It was an epic day and a massive check off the bucket list!
https://strava.app.link/yCpHRhYpn9
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Ran up and around Butser Hill this morning, 1000 ft of elevation in less than an hour, pretty fun!
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A cold one this morning in the fog
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I just did my longest run in years on Sunday!
In the absence of marathoning in 2020, I decided to train up for something I could do at home in my garage on my treadmill. I planned to go out on pace to break 5 hours and 50 min in running time (7:00 / mile) and hopefully have only very brief bathroom breaks so I could keep it under 6 hours. I was able to do it just a touch faster, with a moving time of 5:44:04 (6:53/mile) and limited the bathroom time to 4 min and change, so my total including bathroom pit stops was 5:48:26 (6:58/mile elapsed time). I ended up live streaming the whole thing on Zoom and doing it as a fundraiser for Best Friends Animal Society, so it raised $1375 for them, which is awesome: https://support.bestfriends.org/site/TR/PersonalFundraising/General?px=3527814&pg=personal&fr_id=1500 Hoping it'll trickle up above $1500 in the last few days I leave it up!
More details on nutrition on Strava if you care: https://www.strava.com/activities/4498645045
Training for this was more or less similar to a marathon cycle, except that I added in 4 long runs of between 31 and 35 miles, ranging from 2 35 milers at a pace in the ballpark of the 50 mile pace to a progressive 50k at 6:36/mile average, starting in the 6:50s and ending in the 5:50s.
Really grateful to everyone who tuned in to watch and kept me going, including @neversummer. But seriously, that hurt like hell – mentally even more than physically -- so I hope that marathoning is a reality again in 2021 and I don't have to do something like that again any time soon.
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@cander49 that is a long and fast run, great work
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Wow @cander49 that is some type of superhuman effort / achievement
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just stumbled across the topic….
@cander49 … that is one super human effort there... even more so with the added boredom factor of the treadmill!
Top effort too @Nkwkfld
and @Brock - that looks like an epic run around Mt hood… what an absolutely beautiful place and awesome phots as per usual from you!
Everything is just on such a huge scale compared to the UK... I'd love to ride around there on my mountain bike... or dirt bike for that matter!
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Thanks guys! @Baba-san, everyone keeps asking how in the world I did that on a treadmill, and my reaction is the exact opposite: how in the world could anyone do this NOT on a treadmill?
I didn't have to carry any supplies and still, I had a box of gels, stack of cookies, candy, and 3 bottles at my finger tips the entire time! Plus, I got to watch TV for the first 31 miles and then crank some music on the sound system in the last 19 miles. I couldn't imagine a more optimized environment for something like this. 
In all seriousness, I get really bored if I'm doing a short, easy on a treadmill, but if I'm doing something like a workout, a long run, or a time trial, I'm focused enough on the run and what I'll get out of it that it never gets boring! -
@cander49 an impressive effort to watch- thanks for doing the zoom thing, it provided some entertainment at work. As you might be to odd person for liking treadmills, I am the odd person who likes to virtually spectate. I’ve watched Moab 240 the past few years, as well as a few other ultras. And all it is it watching someone’s tracker very slowly move around a map!
I’ve come to appreciate the treadmill in the past year, but don’t think I could do 50 on it…. maybe some elevation gain based goal, like 10k vert.
