About the second week of Terry's schedule was the week Amber was camp director at Camp Ritchie. The lodge at Camp Ritchie is at 6000' and the only really decent place to run from there is up the road to the highway. Unfortunately "up" in this case really means up-hill. In the first two miles out of camp you climb over 700' in elevation. So not only were we 4000 feet higher than home but running up hill. It was a pretty brutal initiation. Needless to say I didn't run up very fast. I tried to just run steady. I didn't run all the miles I was supposed to but by the end of the week I was getting acclimated to the elevation and feeling a bit stronger. I was hoping that I would feel a real difference when I got back to my home elevation but there wasn't a really noticable difference.
For father's day I got a present... a GPS watch. It is a Garmin 205. It allows me to just take off running and it tracks how far I have run, my pace, elapsed time, calories burned, etc. It is great because until I got the watch, Amber and I were always driving around trying to figure out how far it was between certain landmarks and street corners. We were always having to calculate and figure routes to cover the miles we wanted to run. The watch takes all the guesswork out of it. It helps me know my pace so I know if I need to pick it up or slow it down (but that rarely happens).
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