Have been stopped smoking for three weeks now and there's not a biscuit barrel safe in the East Midlands! Does stopping smoking affect your dieting?? - not bloomin half!!
Anyroad up, one of the things that they tell you on the Fresh Start programme I'm on to stop smoking is to put the money to one side and reward yourself. (How am I doing on justifying this purchase?).
So three weeks of not smoking 20 ciggies a day (even if they were duty frees) has got to be at least £70 worth of saved cash. So.... I bought a Garmin Edge 205 gps cycle computer off Ebay. Got it for £67 which is a saving of at least a £100 on RRP (£174 on Amazon).
Let me tell you about it - you can program your regular routes into it, it analyses your performances over the routes, it gives you gradient profiles and loads of stuff. They're ace, my colleague Sean at work has got one so I've had a look at one - they're grand!!
You get distance, speed, time, altitude, climb, descent, gradient profiling (what you're knees would tell you if they could talk it represents graphically) and you can upload your routes to a website called motion-based!!
Wait 'til the missus spots it on the bike though - big trouble then!!!
2 comments:
Glad to see you finally got around to getting a Garmin Edge. Next thing is to start logging everything in to the Training Centre. I'm now getting 900 hits on the Edge 305 article and about 500 on the Route planning tutorial.
Good to see your still loosing, it starts to get harder now your near at target as the rate of weight loss slows.
Regards,
Frank.
Cheers Frank, really wanted to get it for recording routes etc but yes can see the advantages of the training centre! Will have a good look at your editorial but also found a couple of good sites that do the route generation using Google Maps - think I've posted something on here about it.
Hope you're still cruising with the cycling and weight loss. Mine's got decidedly trickier since I recently stopped smoking but it's something I need to work on!! All the best Paul
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