re: ******OT Health & Fitness Thread******

Another piece of equipment I recommend is a GPS watch. I've owned 4 generations of garmin products. I think there still are a few photos of me on the web wearing an early generation garmin product that looked like a Walkman on my upper arm. The guys laughed about it, but I loved racing with one particularly after I started marathoning. To me it was like the GU revolution in marathon training. I started marathoning late in life - age 40+. I never hit the wall because I constantly took in calories through gel packs.

For training it is perfect. No bullshite allowed. You run a mile it tells you how fast. When and if you begin tempo run training, it will allow you to run tempo miles on a flat road verses a tract. No distance cheating, no I'm pretty sure I was running 7 minute pace, etc.

My current GPS is a garmin 235.