Give-a, give-a, give-a Garmin (other GPS systems are available)

I write this in bed, in a chalet, in Argentiere looking out of the window at 3 feet of snow. Christmas holidays are here! After a really rough week where I've had to miss my first training sessions due to illness it is a fantastic feeling to know I don't have to get up before 8:00am for 16 days. If you'd told me this as a student I would have wanted to know how I had wronged you, as a teacher 8:00am feels like midday.

As the title of this post suggests I am now the proud owner of a Garmin 305. Having used this piece of kit before I was impressed and now that I own one I spent most of last night playing around on motion based uploading and analysing a mass of data (the one run I've completed so far).

The data tells me a few things, mainly that Sheffield is bloody hilly (nearly 3000ft of climing in 15 miles) and that wearing a GPS will also tell people when you visit Sheffield station to relieve yourself (round about mile 4)

http://trail.motionbased.com/trail/invitation/email/accept.mb?senderPk.pkValue=264649&unitSystemPkValue=2&episodePk.pkValue=7305225

I now need to learn to X-Country ski in order to fulfill the remainder of this weeks training. No doubt more Garmin routes will appear very soon.

Later...