Sunday, August 23, 2009

Side effects...

We went to Inglorious Basterds last night, I thought it was a very good movie. The only thing that bothered me was that it brought to life the Nazi era and you see how horrific that period was. Most movies that have brutal killing and make fun of killing are a fictional fantasy world and don't weird you out. Because this was based on a factual event, it felt wrong enjoying the brutality and twisted humor.

Another good nights sleep and a strong training session. I had a little knee pain at the beginning and then it went away. Then I felt some tightness in the Achilles. I think it might be because of the Novamoxin I'm taking. I've also noticed my face is fatter. When I checked out the side effects of the drug, it said that it can cause "puffiness and swelling of the face". I've got one more day of taking these drugs and I'm looking forward to getting off them. No one likes a fat face.

Last night I was playing around with my Garmin and figured out how to download the data. One of the cool features is that it keeps track of elevation. For my long run today I climbed 1784 feet. I'm not sure if that is a lot, but it looks impressive to me. Steelhead had 2200 feet of climbing. I can hardly wait to take it on my next long bike ride to see how much climbing I do.

Long Run - 1:35:34 / 12.01 miles / 7:57 pace / 134 avg hr
7.5






2 comments:

simonl said...

Seems like you are getting a few troubles with the Garmin at the moment. In the market for a monitor/gps myself. Would you not recommend Garmin? Was thinking of Forerunner 310?

Bryan said...

Hi Simon, other than this problem recently, I haven't really had a problem with the garmin. Since I upgraded the software it has gotten better. I think it is a battery. I would recommend them. They're technical support is very good and where I bought it, they will exchange it, no questions asked if it doesn't work.