The Tan Run 6.6 km (Garmin 301 lost signal)

First day back at work today, after 2 weeks of leave. I'm fortunate that I work in a workplace where you are encouraged to keep fit. With that being the case not all employees take up the opportunity, but then again each to their own. So at 3.45 pm I headed out and as per usual I was wearing my Garmin 301. Just a little jog for warmup to Fawkner Park and then stretches gives my Garmin enough time to acquire the satelites. This is definately one thing I don't like about the Garmin, having to wait 5 or so minutes to acquire the orbiting thingies up in space. Weather wise, it was not a bad day, reasonably warm and not a strong wind. The planned course was starting at Fawkner Park, around The Tan, up Anderson Street Hill and return, all up about 6.6 km. This was the course I ran but along Alexandra Pde and Anderson St Hill my Garmin lost the GPS signal. At that point the overall distance ran was static for about 5 to 8 mins (yes, I was running). On the Google Earth map it clearly shows where the signal was lost and regained itself. All in all the distance and pace graphs for this run are useless and not worth publishing. The distance recorded was 6.18 km which is clearly false. 6.6 km ran for a time of 31:21 @ 4:45 /km. Easy type of run, nothing special. Heart-rate max 160 and averaged at 140 bpm. On return 100 sit-ups in the Gym. One of the hassles running during work time is that it is time restricted and would have preferred an 8 k'er and a few more sit-ups - but I'm not complaining.

Stats Weight : 77.9 kg Last 7 Days: 32.2 km Last 28 Days 220.4 km November 2005: 81.9 km YTD: 1961.9 km Weekly Avg (2005): 41.7 km Monthly Avg (2005): 178.0 km Yearly Avg (2001 on): 1460.2 km Total (2001 on): 7299.4 km

I've only got another 38.1 km to run to make 2000 k's for the year. Looks like I might achieve that on my Brimbank Park group run this coming Sunday.