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Two marathons a week apart?
I'm signed up for the Prairie Fire marathon in Wichita on 10/12 (which will be marathon #3). Now a few of my running friends have decided to run Twin Cities on 10/5 and have invited me along. That would be crazy, right? But I've wanted to qualify for Marathon Maniacs and that would do it. But a week apart? I chose Wichita…
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New Garmin Forerunner 15, gps watch/activity tracker combo
Hmmm, kind of wishing I would have known this was coming out! I just bought the VivoFit a few weeks ago and love it, but at first glance, this would have also been a good purchase. Although my forerunner 610 likely has a lot more features than this lower price point gps watch, and I've already gotten used to wearing my 610…
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Which training plan for first marathon?
I'm planning for Chicago to be my first marathon on 10/13/13 (registration opens 2/19). I've run for fitness for 10ish years (3 miles a few times a week along with other workouts), but started running further distances about 2 years ago. I ran my first half in 2011, three halfs in 2012, and am running four spring halfs in…
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Garmin and/or Polar recommendation please
I have an old Polar that quit working. I use my Garmin 305 (the big red one) when I run outside, but I recently found out it's not using the heart rate monitor to actually calculate calories, but instead is just spitting out calories burned based on age, weight, distance, time or something other than heart rate. I do a…
