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History of the Theatre Some theatre students and teachers take this book for a theatre history bible of sorts. Unfortunately, this results in readers switching off their critical thinking skills and accepting Dr. …
I’ve used a polar HRM for well over a decade and one with a speed/distance monitor (SDM) for over 5 years. One key thing missing was the actual route and elevation information. You don’t need this on city streets but it’s extremely helpful when running on open space or trail running – a lot of these routes don’t appear anywhere. So when my most recent Polar HRM/SDM started to die I decided to make the jump into a Forerunner. I looked at the Polar GPS units but it looks like they measure cumulative distance but not actual routes.
The Forerunner does give me position information. So I can’t rate it too low.
But.
But… it’s consistently taking 10 minutes to get a satellite fix even though I’m within the same 10-mile circle. Or maybe it’s even longer – it’s enough time to do the warmup, hang around a bit while getting really impatient, then get about a half-mile into my run. This is under open skies in mid-latitudes (Boulder), not under trees or in the mountains.
But… the “training center” software still doesn’t have a way to print anything. A Google search shows complaints going back to 2007, at least, but Garmin has done nothing to fix it. There’s no excuse to have to choose between doing a screen capture or trying to get usable results via Google Earth. Maybe my problems with GE are mostly due to my ignorance of how to use it, but even if so why should Garmin assume that everyone will have GE and know how to use it to best effect? What if I just want to print a quick copy of a route before meeting a friend for an afternoon run? It’s silly to expect me to always have the time to launch MS Word or Gimp or some other tool, alt-print-screen, copy, crop and print instead of just hitting a ‘print’ button.
But… it thinks that everything is a single run between the times you hook it up to your computer. To be fair maybe there’s some simple function that I’ve somehow missed but right now it treats everything between computer downloads as a single run wi
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