My goal since October was to get in better shape, more importably make my going up hills more of a strength rather than a weakness. At 53 years old now, I’m trying to get a better endurance and strength a bit more. I like how I can gauge my heart rate in the gym on the treadmill at 15% grade but I wanted some better tools to help me outdoors on real hills in real conditions for my training and conditioning.
Well, I’ve been looking at getting a GPS watch to help me coach myself better on actual hills now on my training. I’m going to be getting a Forerunner 620 by Garmin along with the HRM-Run heart monitor. I signed up for my first Ultra, 50K coming in June and I want better monitoring tools to help me gauge my progress and help me gauge my recovery time, pace, get a VO2 max estimate, heart rate, gives me feedback on my running form, cadence, ground contact time, vertical oscillation and charting capabilities. It just seemed like some good tools built into the GPS to help me and help me track my progress.