Another successful year has ended and Garmin is excited to welcome 2009! With a new year comes New Year's resolutions and we want to help you stick to yours...past the month of Feburary. Winter's full of sitting inside and eating big, hearty meals with the family. Pounds are easy to pack on in the cold months, but it's time to get moving again. If you're a runner, the Garmin Forerunner 405 can be your own personal trainer. And the best part? You won't have to worry about someone yelling at you or pushing you beyond limits that you're not ready to set for yourself. With interval and advanced training features, you can customize your own workouts to get desirable results at your own pace. Perfect for the winter months, the Forerunner 405 can be used on a treadmill or on an indoor track with the foot pod accessory that will enable the user to obtain data without the use of satellite reception. Check out the "indoor workout" training video to see how it works. Be sure to check out the Garmin Chicago store for an up-close-and-personal look the Forerunner and other fitness devices.
Joe Constable asks a common question: "How can I enter new destinations into my nüvi using a USB port on my home computer?" You have a few options, Joe, and not just for your nüvi. As long as your Garmin device can talk to your computer via USB, you're good to go. Below (and at our YouTube channel) you'll find video demos on sending destinations from Google Maps, MapQuest and Microsoft Live Search. So now you can plan your stops using your computer, send to your Garmin in seconds and be ready to roll. (And as a bonus, these tutorials are also good for lunch recommendations.)
If there’s one global New Year’s resolution that could make us all a teeny bit better, I’d say it’s this: take time to play. Preferably outdoors. At my home, we recently came to the conclusion that life’s too short to not go sledding at night. After our first real snowfall of the year, my husband came home after 9 and our youngest started chattering about sledding. No matter that he was freshly bathed and pj’d. Next thing I know, dad and son are donning snow pants and boots and heading outdoors. After several swift trips up and down the sidewalks, they returned—red-cheeked and jolly as the big guy from the north.
If you’re pondering your goals for the new year, keep the play thing in mind. Here’s an idea: organize a group of friends, neighbors or coworkers to run a local 5k. Be sure and take a fun pic at the finish. The fun-loving folks here are members of Garmin’s product support team — the ones who answer the call when you have a question about your Garmin device. Whatever your resolutions for the new year, just remember that life’s too short to not go sledding after sunset. Leave a comment and let me know what your resolutions are for 2009.
In addition to all of the excited recipients of Garmin gifts in our last Twitter-related post, one theme kept coming up as everyone opened surprises from Santa (or ordered their own gifts online): New Year's resolutions will be made easier to achieve through Garmin's fitness products. With goals ranging from getting back on the bike to losing a few pounds, running a first 5K to qualifying for the Boston Marathon, fitness enthusiasts unwrapped their Edges and Forerunners and started racking up the miles. And not to be outdone, hikers and geocachers took to the trails and parks with the help of an Oregon, Colorado, GPSMap 60 or eTrex. And all the while, they were talking about it on Twitter. The authors (the name after the first @) share their thoughts - in their own words, in 140 characters or less - to anyone listening. Click on their names to see what they have to say - and be sure to tell them @JakesJournal sent you. I join in on the conversations whenever possible, and you can follow my Tweets at twitter.com/JakesJournal.
Here, unedited, are my favorite two Tweets, from a runner and a cyclist, followed by dozens more in chronological order:
@KimAms@JakesJournal: I just got a Forerunner 405 for Christmas. I love it. I would rush into a burning building to save it.
@autumnrizingI LOVE MY GARMIN SO MUCH I COULD KISS IT! MAYBE EVEN LICK IT!!
When we get great pictures and/or stories in our e-mail inbox, we just have to share them. Thanks, Darren, for reminding us to be thankful for any warmth we can get.
Just wanted to say Happy New Year and thank you to Garmin. Great products. With windchill of -27 C, my Forerunner 305 was still going strong, as opposed to the waterbottle.
Apparently saving a kick for the end isn't something Jake just tries while running. After announcing prizes for readers predicting times in his two recent marathons, Jake vowed to send them out by the end of the year. With a couple hours till closing time on New Year's Eve, he's over there scribbling notes and stuffing envelopes. So Laura, Brad, Steve, Jacki, Linda, Kelly, Chad, Thomas, Alberto, Jay and Tina - your winnings are on their way. (Jared and Marty, send us your address.)
In a matter of days, these lucky winners will be cruising around town in their Team Garmin T-shirts and showing off their limited-edition Oregon geocoins. And Laura, Thomas and Linda get a little something extra for having the best predictions when Jake ran a 3:31.18 in KC and 3:41.03 two weeks later in New York. You see, after American distance champ Ryan Hall told us why he loves his Forerunner (click here to hear his reasons), he was nice enough to autograph three NYC marathon posters. So each of our grand-prize winners gets one of those as well. That is, assuming that if Jake can run 26.2 miles in 3 1/2 hours, he can cover eight stories in an elevator in half that time.
Seeing is believing - the GPSMAP 696's safety features
The GPSMAP 696 has been the subject of recent Garmin blog posts for obvious reasons, but it is nice to see that the 696 is catching the eye of others in the aviation community. Aviation Safety has recently created a video outlining some of the enhanced features of the 696, including the terrain page, panel page, and NRST feature to name a few. Take a look and see the difference a 696 can make for you.
We're nearing the end of 2008, and it's the time of year when electronics gurus everywhere look back at their favorite gadgets of the year and look forward to what CES will bring next week. In reviewing all the toys, trinkets, gadgets, gizmos and what-have-yous, our friends at Gizmodo have just posted a list of best gear they've seen this year, and we're proud to announce the nüvi 785T with lane assist and junction view, and the nüvi 880 with speech recognition took the cake in the GPS category. Both feature dynamic content from MSN Direct - helping driver's avoid traffic backups, look up the weather, compare local gas prices and get movie listings, stock information, local news and more. So here's to a great year and two of our biggest stars!
More Dispatches from West Texas: Astro Visits Quail Eden
The thought occurred to me just as the two lemon and white setters locked up on yet another covey of bobwhite quail. When I die, I want to come back as one of Dale Rollins' dogs!!
An epiphany, for sure, but one that also caused me to whiff an easy shot in front of a gallery of fellow hunters, outdoor writers, and conservationists. (That's my excuse, anyhow.) No matter -- we all knew there would be more coveys before our afternoon ended.
Dr. Dale Rollins is one of the world's premier authorities on quail and quail habitat. The land we were hunting was the Rolling Plains Quail Research Ranch, situated in Fisher County, Texas. It's basically a 4,700 acre research laboratory with a mission of helping find ways to sustain and grow wild quail populations.
One of my favorite parts of being on Twitter is hearing from Garmin users - especially when they get one as a gift. So you can imagine the fun I've been having this past week as hundreds of Tweets mentioned Garmin - either in anticipation of giving or in appreciation after getting. For those of you not familiar with Twitter, it's like a microblog. The authors (the name after the first @) share their thoughts - in their own words, in 140 characters or less - to anyone listening. Click on their names to see what they have to say - and be sure to tell them @JakesJournal sent you. And if you are familiar with Twitter, feel free to sign up to follow my Tweets. I'm always open to answering questions - or finding the right engineer to answer them for us.
To start off, this one sums up what I've been reading for the past week:
Read on to see many of my favorites, presented unedited in chronological order beginning Christmas Eve. And check back later this week for ways that the Twitterverse is turning to Garmin for fitness resolutions.
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Another successful year has ended and Garmin is excited to welcome 2009! With a new year comes New Year's resolutions and we want to help you stick to yours...past the month of Feburary. Winter's full of sitting inside and eating big, hearty meals with the family. Pounds are easy to pack on in the cold months, but it's time to get moving again. If you're a runner, the Garmin Forerunner 405 can be your own personal trainer. And the best part? You won't have to worry about someone yelling at you or pushing you beyond limits that you're not ready to set for yourself. With interval and advanced training features, you can customize your own workouts to get desirable results at your own pace. Perfect for the winter months, the Forerunner 405 can be used on a treadmill or on an indoor track with the foot pod accessory that will enable the user to obtain data without the use of satellite reception. Check out the "indoor workout" training video to see how it works. Be sure to check out the Garmin Chicago store for an up-close-and-personal look the Forerunner and other fitness devices.
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