Yay yay yay, new toy!!

I absolutely adore mine, and I credit it with rekindling my love for biking. Coupla things I've learned:

- Get into the habit of turning the power off when you're done riding. It will drain itself of batteries without warning and the next time you go to use it, it will be dead dead dead. Start a good habit NOW before you get frustrated with it.

- The altitude can be all over the place. Just standing in my living room, it will bounce around 80ft in elevation. It's not uncommon to bike in a big loop and find your home 150ft lower than you left it. Use the numbers as a rough guide, not as an absolute! (Garmin says it helps to have it warm up outside with a satellite lock, as it can take a good half hour to really sync well!)

- It can be kind of stupid on the road: it won't tell you how to get places or what your max speed was or what your total odometer is, but once you get to a computer, all the magic happens. I use the software that came with it to do the bulk of the tracking, but also use MotionBased to share rides, and I also keep an excel spreadsheet to keep track of how rides feel from day to day. But I'm a total numbers junkie that way.

Enjoy your new quantification!

-- gnat!