Posts Tagged ‘optional’

E4 Longdistance Walk: Stage 13 – Switzerland

I've included the optional assumption that walking downhill (gently) covers more distance than on the flat and that by the time I get to Switzerland I will be somewhere between fit and very fit. Both assumptions could be optimistic but ...

Read more...

Be the first to comment - What do you think?  Posted by admin - August 17, 2010 at 11:45 am

Categories: long-distance   Tags: , , , , , , ,

Garmin Forerunner 310XT 010-00741-01 GPS Trainer with Heart Rate Monitor

114651 Features: Take this one straight into the pool, with water-resistance to 50 meters it doesn’t leak during your lap routines Track the distances of your long rides and runs with GPS technology and a high-sensitivity receiver; you get 100 waypoints and locations and can store up to 1000 laps Ensure that you’re training at your peak (or below it when necessary) with the optional heart rate monitor, bike speed and cadence sensor, and foot pod Keep a good watch on your performance with the p

Read more...

Be the first to comment - What do you think?  Posted by admin - May 31, 2009 at 1:40 pm

Categories: Object   Tags: , , , , , , , , , ,

National Ignition Facility

Dr. Evil would have loved this. When he was talking about getting some frickin’ laser beams on the sharks, he might have had something like this in mind – except that the sharks would have been totally superfluous. Just a small distance from San Francisco is the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory. Lots of cool stuff goes on here all the time; it’s almost as cool as the stuff that has historically taken place in New Mexico at Sandia Labs and Alamagordo (no a-bombs however!). Now we find o

Read more...

Be the first to comment - What do you think?  Posted by admin - at 1:39 pm

Categories: Object   Tags: , , , , , , , , , , , , ,

Not running as far as I thought I was

For my running activities, I use my Suunto T3 with the optional Foot Pod - this allows me to track my speed and distance as I run. I find it quite useful: if a section of a run feels particulary difficult I can check my speed and see that perhaps I’m pushing harder than usual, as an example. The thing I don’t like about it is the calbration: to ensure its accuracy you have to calbriate it, meaning running at distance you know to be true (1 mile, for example) and then stop the Suunto and check

Read more...

Be the first to comment - What do you think?  Posted by admin - May 22, 2009 at 2:12 pm

Categories: Object   Tags: , , , , , , , , , , , ,