The StopWatch

[Spud-U-Like]

I tried a 5K run yesterday, no Sarah Millican to cheer me on, just me, Scamp and a stopwatch. Ah yes, the stopwatch, what a waste of space that useless thing is. I set it off when I began the run, but it’s so overly complicated that I screwed up completely and lost track of the time by inadvertently pressing one of the buttons when I had to stop to put Scamp on his lead when passing some ramblers. It paused, then went into lap-time mode, or split time mode, or some other incomprehensible mode which know one but the Chinese manufacturer understands, and that was me bollixed. I kept going, and I believe the 5K took me about 46 minutes, but I don’t *know* as the stopwatch was not cooperating. Why cant someone make a SIMPLE stopwatch with just three controls?

START STOP RESET and that’s it. No bells and whistles, no recorded times, no time, no nothing, just a big clear digital display with Start, Stop and Reset. I’d buy it.

The failed stopwatch is back in my sock draw, it’ll probably never come out again. I’ve got a digital watch with a simple stop watch on it, in future I’ll just use that.

[AlMorr Ambassador Graduate]

The dearer those time watches are, the more complex they are, you would have to do a college course to understand how they operate, you might even need a degree on how to use them, on the other hand you just need a watch with a stop watch on it, when you start to run, press start, at the end of the run, press stop.

[Couchphoenix Graduate]

Nike Run Club app, free, you get a coach to encourage you (Coach Bennett) there are 5k runs on there and it saves your time for you. Plus you can listen to your own playlist 👍