Training despite H5N1 Bird Flu Marathon J

Well Garmin 405 has a point, in Hong Kong I did not think I’d found a satellite but turning Garmin on for a training run today (despite recovering from Asia bird flu) Garmin sprung into life and recorded that I had travelled 5995 miles in 168 hours so averaging 35 miles per hour, which has me completing the marathon in under an hour and smashing the world record! Something is not right......

So I stabbed at the controls, hopefully, and managed to turn it on, although I was not very happy with the display as the information was not presented as before. I really must read the manual.

Anyway for reasons I’m not allowed to divulge I started my run from Ian Woosnam’s house, lets just say his swing is looking better after our chat, enough said!
I ran down the road and up past Jacksons, there is a very nice Aston Martin DBS with my name on it, I just need the associated wining lottery ticket now. Then I passed the airport, carried on and picked up the railway walk, the one that marathon T ran up the week after the half, I figured I’d work out how steep it is by running down it rather than up, for somebody as hugely intelligent as marathon T he sometimes does some silly things, fancy running up it to see how steep it is, as Mr T (of the A Team) would say "Fool".

Anyway, I arrived on the front and ran past the boat house, I’m planning to have a large amount of food and wine there on Saturday night with the Luxon's, anyway running on the flat was hard work given I’d just run 2 miles down hill, but the view was stunning, clear blue sky and sea lapping gently on the beach. First Tower was a long time coming but I hoped I’d get a rest waiting to cross the Esplanade, no luck the little green man greeted me as I arrived so I ran straight across and then up the huge hill, my technique for hills is to ignore them and pretend they are flat. On this occasion it worked though I struggled to overtake a guy walking up it.

Half a mile on the flat and I was home, Garmin was not very helpful on my performance, I struggled through more menus than I knew I had, including one giving me directions home and telling me I had arrived!

Eventually I found a history menu with the following information:

Run time 1hr 11 min 27 seconds
Miles 8.08
Calories 1026
Minute mile average 8.50
Heart rate 154 bpm