Garmin, chairs, running, and someone made me feel weird
The new watch is here! So much data! It feels like a crime to use it for only two miles, but that’s one more mile than I was originally planning today, and I was so excited I went out way too fast. You’ll notice I linked to the Garmin website. Because MapMyRun, which I normally use, wants me to pay extra to view the data, I collect on my own, about myself. I think that’s patently ridiculous.
I had the heart rate monitor on a bit too tight, tomorrow that won’t be an issue. You can tell I was excited at the start, as I went out fast and apparently I was bouncing all over the place. This was my last run on my old 940v2s. Tomorrow I start on the new pair. I love new shoes, I’ll sing the New Shoes song tomorrow.
But right now, new watch. It hooked up to the satellites so quickly, it worked great, vibrated on the mile. I may end up shutting that off when I’m running long runs, we’ll see how it goes. The clip is so easy to use. First impressions, wow!
You can see in the unboxed picture, the bar stools I got for the house and assembled today. I accidentally ordered 4, when originally the plan was to get 2, but 4 will end up working better when there is company. So that’s nice, and I like them. Not too difficult to put together.
Now, Brad Takei (George Takei’s husband) posted this thing about people complaining about people who are too fat, or too skinny, and how everyone always seems to have some sort of negative body comment for folks out there. I shared that people used to complain I was too fat, and then when I lost weight people started complaining I was too skinny, most of these people were close family members. A lot of people have been identifying with my comments. I appreciate that. They also got me thinking about how much all the negative body comments have hurt me, and how I never really say anything about that. Because I’m a guy, a straight guy at that, and I’m “not supposed” to be bothered by that stuff. When it’s your family it can be rather bothersome, it makes you feel like you’re doing something wrong and that no matter what you can’t please anyone.
That’s why I try to never make judgmental statements about people. If someone expresses a desire to learn, to change what they’re doing, then I will encourage them. I will be generally encouraging all the time anyway, and try and get people to run along with me, either physically or emotionally, either way. But as I always say, I’m not here to tell you what to think, or say, or do. And your physical appearance is no business of mine. I get that there is a point where it is a health concern for people, but they have to accept that too, and it’s not about how they look, it’s about their health. That’s the biggest complaint, because in my experience, people making the comments, while they may have been concerned for my health, did not express it that way. They said things like “you’re too heavy” or “you’re too skinny” and it was invariably followed with “you don’t look good”. Well nuts to if I am pleasing to your eyes, I care about being healthy, and ostensibly you do too, that’s why you claim you are commenting. So let’s have a conversation about health, and what that means, not about looks, looks don’t matter, and it can really damage people and make the problem worse.
So that was my day, how was yours? Remember to have fun out there, keep running, and remember; If Gil can run, then so can you!
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