My Weekend Recap:
My Last “long run” before the race
Keeping it real at my dinner party – Voting is Open for Challenge 3!
I don’t know if I’ve mentioned this before but I actually ignore my Garmin on runs. I glance at it when I hear the mile marker beep so I know when to turn around, but I don’t pay any attention to my pace!
This is a bad thing for me because I am really bad at pacing myself and often go out too fast and burn out long before my run is over. Also, I want to work on speed and pacing, so it’s something I plan on working on for my next race.
But today the Garmin could not be ignored. It has been telling me that the Lap Database is full for a while now. However, I’m in the habit of ignoring it anyways so I didn’t really do anything about it.
Well, I guess today it really reached it’s limit because at Mile 3 it started beeping and would not stop! I was at my turn around point so I stopped and tried to fix it, but the beeping continued. Finally, I figured out how to delete all but the last 3 months of history and it stopped.
I don’t think I archived my previous run history, so I’m kinda bummed 🙁 Boo.bs
Another random thing you may or may not know about me – I like oat bran more than oatmeal. I always buy oatmeal thinking I’ll want to eat it. It sounds good in theory, but I’d rather have oat bran 80% of the time.
Breakfast – oat bran, almond milk, stevia, ripe banana, almond butter and cinnamon 🙂
With iced coffee because it’s Monday and I lied last night when I said I was going to sleep at the end of my post. 
Voting for Project Food Blog Challenge 3 is open! I was really stressed that my entry would look dumb compared to all the fancy foodies I’m up against, but I’m glad I stayed true to myself and kept it real 🙂 Hope you support me by voting here!
I’ve never had oatbran.. what makes it more delicious? It looks a bit creamier.
I voted for you.. good luck!
Yeah, Garmins apparently don’t like holding onto a lot of logs. 🙂 Mine started to get glitchy, until Garmin Support had me download my entire set of logs off my device and onto my computer so I could clear the device memory. Worked like a charm!
Lately I’ve only been using the Garmin as a no-brainer way to log my distance/time — I actually moved my average pace off of the main screen to the secondary screen so I wouldn’t constantly be checking it every time I wanted to see my time or distance elapsed. I should probably use the “virtual training partner” for my tempo runs like once a week…
I have never tried oatbran before – do you cook the same way you cook oatmeal?
Yes, I usually use a little extra liquid though because it can get dry.
I don’t know that I’ve ever tried oat bran. What is the difference?
Oat bran is kinda like cream of wheat.
I find myself glancing at my watch more for the pace than anything else. I don’t want to know the miles until I’m almost finished! 🙂
I’ve gotten better about not paying too much attention to my Garmin but its a hard balance to strike. When i first got it my eyes would be glued to it and it would stress me out. Now, I definitely look at it with each mile but try to ignore the pace and just focus on how I feel.
bummer about losing all the run data! i find it interesting and cool that you don’t look at your pace during a run. that’s why i haven’t bought one because i’m afraid i would look all. the. time. but you give me hope that it might now be the case 🙂