Nothing motivates me to go do some sport more than an expensive investment in a piece of sports gadgetry that will be utterly useless unless I actually go and do some sport with it. It's like the reasonable person holding the recalcitrant lazy guy to ransom by spending all his money. I don't really have dual personalities, but that's kind of what's going on.
Since I'm somewhat obsessive-compulsive by nature, my choice is something that provides lots and lots of data on the exact source of the pain in my thighs and the degree of effort that resulted in seeing double around the second mile-marker. Then I can play with the data for hours. Then - so the theory goes - I shall be motivated to go get more data, which involves doing more sport, so that I can track improvements in performance to seven decimal points.
My choice of expensive gadget this time around is the Garmin Forerunner 210. Partly because I want to measure my heart rate and recovery time because without some sense that I'm improving my health I'll give up; and also partly because... well... it was right there in a case in the shop, looking at me.
Total cost, around €200. I could have ordered it by mail and had it cheaper, but it was right there...
The gadget also has a built-in GPS (hence the price) conveniently increasing the amount of available information for me to obsess over once I stop hyperventilating after exercise.
Since I'm somewhat obsessive-compulsive by nature, my choice is something that provides lots and lots of data on the exact source of the pain in my thighs and the degree of effort that resulted in seeing double around the second mile-marker. Then I can play with the data for hours. Then - so the theory goes - I shall be motivated to go get more data, which involves doing more sport, so that I can track improvements in performance to seven decimal points.
My choice of expensive gadget this time around is the Garmin Forerunner 210. Partly because I want to measure my heart rate and recovery time because without some sense that I'm improving my health I'll give up; and also partly because... well... it was right there in a case in the shop, looking at me.
Total cost, around €200. I could have ordered it by mail and had it cheaper, but it was right there...
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