Congrats again on the race!Call it old age but my attitude is defiantly changing when it comes to running. Losing interest? Not really but the obsessiveness is dwindling. I am running my first 50k this Sunday, and thinking about ditching the garmin, and just run by feel. It's funn, when I ran shod for 18 years I never wore a watch, logged miles, etc. Then once I started running barefoot I cluttered running with useless crap. Now I don't even stress over race times or speed now, its like a cloud lifted and I am returning how I ran when I first started. Or again, I am just an old bastard that wants to run barefoot without excess baggage. I might just ditch the garmin for good.
I have never been a big fan of my Garmin and run almost all of my runs "unplugged" as the kids say. I use it for speedwork so that I can hit certain splits or for intervals and on trails that I am not familiar with. Why do I need to track my mileage when I know that the trail is 7 miles? Or the loop around my neighborhood is 2 miles? I also have a thing about numbers, I guess it goes with being a scientist and all, and will find myself saying, "I ran 17.89 miles" when I could just not clutter my brain with that extra info and just say, "18 miles" I was down in Austin a few weeks ago having lunch with Doom and BF Jim and I had worn my Garmin the afternoon before and was talking in hundredths of a mile!!