It is with great sadness that I announce the demise of Mr Garmin this morning at approximately 9 am. Cause of death unknown but rumour has it that the early mornings became too much for him. He was a loyal fellow only occasionally refusing to come out with me using the ‘low battery’ as an excuse. We travelled England together recently taking in Torquay and Southampton. We had our ups and downs. He managed to make a full recovery after coming in to contact with the path one infamous time and sustaining a nasty scrape along his side. Yes he was brave, but sadly is no more. He has left me in my time of need.
RIP Mr Garmin
It took me a while to get over the shock of loosing my faithful companion, but I rationalised that I had trained for 2 marathons without such technology and pulled myself together and headed out. I had planned all week to do 4 times 5 mile loops (19 miles needed) so knew the route to take so not having a Garmin should not matter, right? The feeding station was set up on the wheelie bin, 3 gels and 2 bottles of water, sorted. After approximately 8 miles I was struggling so knew this was going to be tough, the plan changed slightly for me to run 3 hours 20 minutes and then stop. At the final stop by the house I knocked (okay maybe pounded) on the door to request a cool bath be run for me in 30 minutes!
Was very glad to finish and plunge in to that cool water.
Felt fine very shortly after but boy it was tough for most of the 300 minutes.
Plotted the run on realbuzz to discover it is ‘only’ 18 miles, hubby suggested I went back out to do the last mile, I’ll let you guess what the answer was.
Off to trawl the net for a Mr Garmin replacement, the mourning period is over.
shazruns 
I still miss my Garmin… 😦
Have you tried re-booting him? Mr W’s Garmin appeared to have died the other day and after a bit of googling we were able to find a fix. 🙂
must admit I have become very reliant on my ‘garmie’ 🙂
I have a forerunner 110 and I love him very much. I’m so sorry to hear your sad news. but I think you have your maths wrong – 4 x 5 miles is in fact 20 miles not 19, and 3hrs 20 mins is 200 minutes not 300!! That’d be well slow, which actually you are not!
Happy trawling. I opted for the 210 and like it, though it doesn’t do anything fancy like virtual partner.