I hated running all my life. Then fate intervened, and since I didn’t have much opportunity for other forms of exercise, I started running in the forest during chemo - got that biweekly - first week was about survival, on the resting weeks I ran two-three times, 3-4kms. Then the habbit stayed - I loved the forest before, and I thought that if I could go out during chemo, then rain/mud/cold wouldn’t be able to hold me back. And indeed it can’t. The next year I kept the same pace - two small circles a week -, but then covid hit, we went home office, and I started increasing the distances and pace.

It’s interesting to look back and see that in the beginning I ran my 3-4 km tracks at the same pace as the 50+ km Vérmókus I ran recently.

A few weeks ago there was a rainy weekend and I was not able to do the planned work in the garden, also the Vadlan Ultra Terep trail running competition was near, so I decided to create my own Garmin watch datafield.

My main plan was to display both the stamina and the remaining distance from the track in a comparible way (among other metrics I’m interested in, like heart rate, pace and such), but that failed since many metrics are not available through the SDK - stamina among them. But anyway, I’ve created my datafield, I really like it, and at the moment of writing 178 other runners have installed it, too.

You can download it from the Garmin Connect IQ store.

Energy gels are expensive as hell, so I decided to cook my own.

Here’s the recipe I used: