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Ordered my Grad reward.

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I've been dithering about getting a Runner's Watch. It's tech, and I'm a techy, so it was meant 'to be'. But there are so many to choose from. But in the end I just had to!

Decided on a Garmin Forerunner 235. Should come middle of next week. So now I have to keep going, I'm invested.

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sallensonGraduate

Nice!! You'll love it!! And you can't stop now... :-)

Ripcurlrana71 profile image
Ripcurlrana71 in reply tosallenson

GARMIN!!! 😬😬😬

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sallensonGraduate in reply toRipcurlrana71

I wondered when you'd show up... xx

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Ripcurlrana71 in reply tosallenson

I’ve set up an alert for whenever the word Garmin pops up. 😂

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Ripcurlrana71

Love it - I have the older less fancy 35. 😊

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theoldfellow in reply toRipcurlrana71

Phew! I was worried from your reply to @sallenson that it might be Garmin....Yuk!

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Ripcurlrana71 in reply totheoldfellow

He’s just jealous. 😬

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sallensonGraduate in reply toRipcurlrana71

You'll always be young and fancy to me tho

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sallensonGraduate

Don't be alarmed by Ripcurlrana71 my friend. "Ripcurl and Garmin" is our equivalent of "Piggy and Truffle". She is obsessive about hers. But it's done wonders for her... :-)

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Ripcurlrana71 in reply tosallenson

Need to also give huge credit to my Brooks Ghost too.

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sallensonGraduate in reply toRipcurlrana71

Oh no!! It's the acceptance speech again. Run and hide, everyone xx

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Ripcurlrana71 in reply tosallenson

‘And my wonderful svelte runner friends from the health unlocked forum’ xxx

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SaartjieGraduate in reply toRipcurlrana71

😂😂

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southlundonGraduate

Looks smart! I’ve got an Apple Watch and I really need to understand how to use the workout feature on it 🤔

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theoldfellow in reply tosouthlundon

It's going to be my everyday watch too, so it needs to go with the cassock. :)

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southlundonGraduate in reply totheoldfellow

🙏🏻

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Jay66UKGraduate

Nice. Still can’t decide whether to get one or to upgrade my Apple Watch to a newer one. Fortunately I can’t afford either yet so I can decide slowly!

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sallensonGraduate in reply toJay66UK

By which time they'll all have changed and we can all start again...

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sallensonGraduate

You're going to wow your parishioners with that!!

Make sure you don't play with it when you should be writing your sermon tho :-)

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ArthurJGGraduate in reply tosallenson

Could set an alert to earn when the sermon’s too long ....

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MelsieJayGraduate in reply toArthurJG

Wish our Rev did that!!

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ChettyAlGraduate

Well done theoldfellow, well deserved and I really hope you enjoy it!

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granmamA

That watch looks hot!

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mountaindreamerGraduate

Wow, looks cool! I’m sure you’ll love it when it arrives, and it should look great with that cassock.😎 As a non-techie, I’ll stay content with my Fitbit (it matches a hospital exercise test on heartrate, so I’m happy with that!)

My Graduation present isn’t going to look as impressive - but I decided I really did want a C25k graduation T-shirt! (I ordered it optimistically after W9R2...) Having been disappointed to find no one else at the local Parkrun seems to list their club as NHS C25k, when it arrives I’m going to run my Parkruns in it with pride! (Who needs a swanky local running club vest!) 😃🏃‍♀️🏃‍♂️❤️

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theoldfellow in reply tomountaindreamer

Hey, that's a great idea! I might do that too. The difficulty is to decide to get one that fits me now, or one that I hope will be right when I get rid of the beer-belly.

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mountaindreamerGraduate in reply totheoldfellow

The link for the Tshirts is here if you want it...

completerunner-online.com/s...

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ForestgrumpGraduate

So what does this do ?

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sallensonGraduate in reply toForestgrump

Everything

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limberlouGraduate

My daughter has one and loves it

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ForestgrumpGraduate

Is this better than using a smart phone with a starava/ Endomondo type app ?

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theoldfellow in reply toForestgrump

More convenient for me - and it records and displays heart rate. The only way I found of measuring heart rate on the phone was not something that I can do while running.

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Running59

Guess what I ordered the same watch from Argos it’s my graduation reward. I’m wearing it now put my forerunner 35 on eBay

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theoldfellow in reply toRunning59

Great minds.....

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Running59 in reply totheoldfellow

Yes my graduation present

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