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When I went for my run on Wednesday with Dave my GPS lasted about 3 minutes before dying through lack of battery charge. I think I accidentally caused it to discharge by leaving it attached to the cradle, but not plugged in. Today I went for a run here in Belgium, and used it again (recharged it), but because I didn't reset it from the small amount of data it had in it from Wednesday, it wound up recording it as though I had actually done one long run from London to Belgium, some 330 odd kilometers. Fortunately it divide it into laps, so I figured it would be easy to simply delete the first lap, and get the data from the second. Sadly, of course, things are never that simple, and in spite of deleting the lap on the device, and in the software on my mac, the lap kept on showing up every time I imported into mapmyrun.com. Sadly the interface on there doesn't enable you to delete specific points on the mapped run, just the last one plotted.

After a brief head scratch, I figured that maybe I could export the data from the software, manually edit it, and then import just the relevant data into mapmyrun (from hereonin, this will be abbreviated to MMF, because that's the initials they use as the catch all for all the sister sites under mapmyfitness) ... but MMF doesn't provide support for the export format from the training centre software. But good old internet to the rescue, a very helpful chap called Jörn Clausen has created a tcx to kml converter. This then opened up straight away in google earth, at which point I could simply select the specific lap of data I want, export that as a single KML file, and then import that into MMF. All a bit longwinded, but I got there in the end ;-)

It was quite a nice, if brief run. I forgot to bring my shuffle, or my running hat, so it seemed a little weird without music and with the sweat running into my eyes so quickly, but I set quite a fast pace (for me), and did a few laps of the local park. There wasn't a soul about, so it was just me and the dirt track, and it surely earnt me the fat boy fry up that Jane provided on my return. Amelie apparently did laps of the garden while I was gone, so that's us both tired out now ...