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I am a huge fan (addict) of novelty.  It’s the novelty of small changes to my routine that keeps my pace up, keeps me learning new things, and frankly, keeps me interested.  When it comes to exercise, this is especially true. In that vein, while I munch on my Apples and Cinnamon Quaker Oats (with spoon of peanut butter), I thought I would talk about some of the sites I’ve used in the past to track workouts.  Each is good for something, some are better at everything, but a full buffet of choices will help avoid boredom forever.

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This, my dear readers is a telephone.  It has one function – you pick up that funky looking handle on the top and hold it to your ear.  Then you grab that doohickey on the side and crank it up.  Once completed, you can speak to someone on other end.  We refer to this procedure as making a “call”.

Apart from this “call” functionality, this object is nothing more than a paper weight – or something for braining your next burglar.  My point, that is perilously close to drowning in my sarcasm, is that the object has one function.  It’s a telephone.  That’s what it does and even in 1896, it did it pretty well (although Rikstelefon is no longer in business in Sweden).

A few days ago, a friend of mine was complaining that his GPS running application on his Iphone didn’t work perfectly – he wasn’t getting absolutely accurate readings while jogging… (cough) His phone was not giving him accurate GPS readings while jogging? This wasn’t even a complaint about the GPS while calling.

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