we lost all the info in a terrible hospice-book-store accident

I went for a nice little 4-miler (well, quasi-4-miler: the Google Maps widget said it was probably more like 3.89 miles. Which is good to know--gotta love a good widget!) yesterday, while it was all sunshine and springlike. Today we are getting rain on the coast, and if you go inland at all I guess there is terrible mixed precipitation and then massive amounts of snow (which we are so due for anyway--its wild how un-winter like winter has been so far) . I bought a new watch, cheap-o but very hooked up: I've got a count-down timer (awesome for intervals, when I am ready for them again) and a straight-up timer (which I used yesterday: a respectable 41 minutes, thank you very much) and then fancy-pants alarms and such that I will probably not use enough to warrant actual inclusion (I did set the alarms for my unreasonably early wake up times: 6am weekdays, 7am weekends. I would have to actually have to get up then to make it worth while, but setting the watch is a first step anyway). All in all quite a good deal so far. I have a feeling that given the structure of the band, it too (my last running/ wake-up alarm watch did this after about six months. It got to the point where putting my left wrist within a foot or so of someones face was embarrassing for me and painful for them) will succumb to the horrible stench before loosing its usefulness, but for now I'm in that honey-moon period where I can wear it every day even though I run with it, and haven't even had to bleach it once.