Sometimes Technology Gets In The Way

I wanted to run some intervals on Tuesday so gathered up my normal running gear and my interval timer and headed out. I didn't even make it to the driveway before the tech conspired against me.

Somehow the last time I used my GymBoss interval timer I left it in single timer mode instead of dual timer mode. I messed with it for a few minutes and almost left it behind. However, I really

wanted needed to run intervals, so I headed back in and went to my laptop upstairs and reviewed the PDF instruction sheet I scanned into Evernote. Tap tap press-hold-tap and spin counterclockwise on my left heel, and done. Dual timers. Good to go.

I get outside and turn on my GPS watch so I can capture my distance. It hooks up in about a minute and off I go. 30 seconds later, my 6th generation iPod Nano starts talking to me, and not in a good way. I usually listen to the Wall Street Journal from Audible during weekday runs. The Nano kept insisting on lowering the volume and speaking over the narrator to tell me the program title and chapter number. I finally got the Nano to reboot and that fixed it. It does that about every 3-4 months and drives me nuts.

Sort of makes me want to run with no tech at all. Still, 99.5% of the time it works just fine. After all of that, I felt better after my run than I have in weeks though, so maybe getting my blood pressure up before I finally took off was a good thing.

Maybe not.