Can I just say, how good is CoolRunning?
It's not only an incredibly informative website, but a really lovely community of people who are all willing to help each other out and freely share information and encouragement with each other.
I've only managed to meet a few CoolRunners around the traps over the last year or so I've been posting on the site, unfortunately it seems I've always got something on when there are get-together drinks so far.
Anyway to prove my point I lost my HR monitor strap as I think I mentioned in an earlier post. Left it in a rented campervan at the end of a great south coast surfing (and running) roadtrip and they clearly threw it out or nicked it or something even though I called the very next morning to track it down. Major bummer since those things cost $130 to replace. I'd also been having issues with the footpod over the trip, it just never seemed to work even though I tried 3 fresh batteries. Grrrr!
I thought at the very least I need to know my heart rate so I posted on CoolRunning that I'd lost my strap and did anyone have a spare one that they could sell to me?
Almost instantly I had a response from a CoolRunner in WA with the username PsychoChicken who said she would post one out to me that day and refused to take any payment or even let me pay for postage. She express-posted it to me Friday arvo and it arrived in Monday's mail! Such a gracious act and I was so happy about it.
To make things even better, I tried the footpod again with a regular battery (I'd been using rechargeables) and it actually worked for the whole run. I guess it just doesn't like rechargeable batteries. Nice.
So I'm back in business and I'm so impressed by the CoolRunning community in general and by PsychoChicken in particular... THANK YOU!!!
4 years ago
2 comments:
Can't argue with you there Mike!
BTW - how did you go at Cronulla?
Cronulla felt great, I really enjoyed that race. Unfortunately I seemed to go 3 minutes slower than last year, on the back of a full year of training - how does that work? I'm getting together a race report to stick on the blog soon.
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