On Sunday I once again finished the ING Edmonton 21.1 km run. My time was 1:53:02. Only a couple minutes faster than my time last year in the same event, but overall I felt better this time. A good run on a very hot day. I’m sure I had slight heat sickness for the rest of Sunday.

This run I used my new Garmin forerunner 405 model for tracking time, distance, heart rate… and not my older forerunner 201 model. The new watch is better in every way except for battery life. My 201 could last for weeks, while the 405 seems to barely make it a few days. Have to get used to treating my 405 like a cell phone and plug it in every night to recharge. It should come with an i-pod like docking station for recharging and not a regular ac adaptor plug-in.

To prep for the run I spent more time getting used to 8 min mile pacing, but during the actual race for any slight decline I ended up getting carried with the crowd for stretches of 7 min mile pace time. So I’ll start working on that speed for next year, even though that will probably just mean I over-exert myself doing a 6 min mile pace whenever. For my first few half marathons I really had to train for the race distance, but now I am so comfortable with that length I can finally relax and train for speed. To actually do one flat, straight mile in 6 minutes would be cool.

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