My new Polar 720i heart rate monitor arrived today. It comes with a speed sensor for the bike, and I ordered the optional cadence sensor as well and I can also download everything to my laptop for post-exercise/race analysis ;-) Overkill? You betcha!

I took it out for a run this evening and it kept beeping at me. About half the beeps were expected. Not sure what the other ones were about, but I’ll have to spend quite a bit of time reading the manual for once. I’ve just finished fitting all the bits to the bike and lights are flashing where they’re supposed to flash, so I’ll be checking it out on tomorrow morning’s ride to make sure it’s all working properly. Fingers crossed.

The run was the standard 5min Run, 1min Walk, three times. The local park is the perfect size in that it takes me about 5mins to run one lap. Finally I found a suitable place to run that isn’t a road or footpath. I used to run past this park all the time, but I always assumed that it would be too small to run around. I’ll be doing quite a bit of running up there from now on. Knees are feeling good too.

S: 2400m – R: 2.8km