USING GARMIN 310XT WITH GOLDENCHEETAH FULL
USING GARMIN 310XT WITH GOLDENCHEETAH SOFTWARE

USING GARMIN 310XT WITH GOLDENCHEETAH SOFTWARE

(You can see the dark blue line jut upwards at the end where I drove with the watch still running.) One of the neat features of this software is that I can export the files to other programs, like Google Earth to see my route details or Golden Cheetah for more analysis options. I can also view things like heart rate, elevation, and heart rate as % of max. Here’s my speed in dark blue and my pace in light blue. Here’s one way the results can be viewed: When I got home I plugged in the watch, opened the Garmin Training Center software that came with my watch, and uploaded the data. Thankfully it was only about a minute so the data isn’t skewed TOO badly. Unfortunately I forgot to turn off the watch when I got in the car, so I went a half mile and got an alert that I had crossed the seven mile marker at 20+ miles an hour! Whoops.

USING GARMIN 310XT WITH GOLDENCHEETAH FULL

At the end of the run I felt like I still had a bit left in the tank, so I decided to do four 20-second sprints at full speed. While running I can glance at my wrist to check my pace, which today I tried to keep at a 10 minute mile. Today I just had a beep letting me know every time I finished another mile. I can set all sorts of alerts for pace, heart rate, and distance. It’s a quirky little incentive that I love about this app. That means I earned 6 personal records (or 2nd or 3rd fastest times) on this run. One thing you might notice is the icon that shows a trophy 圆. Stalk the route all you want, it’s not where I live.

(Feel free to be my athlete friend, follow my profile here.) That was annoying to find out after the run was finished, but since I’ve used the app for nearly two years without that issue, I’m going to assume it was some sort of error on my end and keep using Strava.

It dropped my GPS signal about a half mile before the end of my run. Today I had a bit of an issue with Strava that I have never had before. When I got home, I uploaded the data from my watch into Garmin Training Center then reviewed the data in Golden Cheetah. It was a slow pace, and I walked a little at the mile marker from 5k on, but I DID it, and that’s what counts. Unfortunately I made the stupid choice to weight train my legs yesterday (including squats,) so they felt like lead weights most of the time. (10k is 6.2 miles, for all of us imperial holdouts.) For this run, I strapped on my Garmin Forerunner 305 (now discontinued, similar watch to the 310xt), strapped my iPhone to my arm with Strava Run going, and listened to a few podcasts as I jogged around Houston on an unusually lovely day.

As part of the preparation for my half marathon in December, I went on a 10k training run today.

Using garmin 310xt with goldencheetah