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Sunday, Andrea and I went out for an epic (for me) run. Considering I have been only doing runs in the 4-6 mile range (< 1 hour) at Shelby Farms (alt link), Stanky Creek, and Lakeland… it was a big step up to run the Shelby Forest trails. The distance is about 15 miles. We took 3 short breaks and walked a little bit, but we basically ran the whole thing in about 3.5 hours (course is the 25km Swamp Stomper course). Not that fast, but that is the longest I have ever walked or run ever in a day. I have run a couple of 10 milers on the street and hiked as long as 12 miles I think…(with a pack, no less).

The worst deal of the run was that my Polar 720i HRM watch laid down on me during the course of the run. The screen started to fade after hour 1 and was out completely at the nature center turn around. I sent it off to Polar for repair….I don’t know what the turn around will be, so I ordered one of the new CS600 computers. I hate to switch technology but it looks like Polar is phasing out the S-series watches.  If they can fix my 720i I will use to my non-primary bikes, running, etc.

The lower level CS computers were not interesting at all due to the requirement to upload only to the polar website. It is not so much that I won’t have access to the internet (I pretty much do all the time), it is that I don’t like to have all this data only on their website. It will be interesting to see if this will work better than the 720i which has been generally pretty reliable for me. I think the newer CS are using a different transmitter frequency.