Running Blog

I have now a Running blog. The aim is to keep the competition spirit high by staying in touch with my virtual training partners that are located in Spain, Ireland and France.

Garmin Forerunner 301

I have recently bought a Garmin forerunner 301:

This is an excellent training partner that continuously monitors your heart rate, speed, distance, pace and calories burned! I’ll run the Paris marathon next April and I really though that I need such a little cool device to train smarter and more effectively.

The bundled software is poor but I am now using sportTracks. The following is a picture of my today workout:

SportTracks automatically track the distance, time and pace of your workouts. You are even able to visualize your route with google earth. This is cool. Moreover, you can analyze your pace, elevation, or heart-rate performance.
I hope I’ll be ready for April. The only problem is that I’ll not be able to claim that I was badly trained when I’ll have to explain a counter-performance.

Back from Wengen

I am just back from a fantastic week of ski in Wengen.

As you can see on the picture my ski instructor was very pretty and this also helps enjoying.
The weather was fantastically sunny and even if the snow was a bit too hard this is so enjoyable to ski with a blue sky.
Note that Wengen hosts the Lauberhorn Downhill Ski Race - surely the pistes are very impressive.

Dave is leaving Arjuna

Ok, I don’t want to repeat what Mark said but my mate Dave is leaving Arjuna to take up a job with Microsoft.
All the best Dave!