My watch is rebelling against me!

My Garmin does NOT like that I'm not using it properly. I'm trying to stick with this whole "running for time" thing to keep myself from becoming too obsessive about my mileage (or lack thereof, rather). Today my goal was 50 minutes. To break it up a little, I decided to set my watch for 5 ten-minute intervals. I'm running and running and I look down to see the Garmin counting down from 18 minutes. Huh? At 12 minutes it tells me I did one interval and have 4 to go. What? I kept going and the next time I looked down I saw that the timer had frozen at just over 9 minutes. What the #@!#?!@# I stopped and started the timer again. Finally I stopped running and reset my run so I could check my time....the right time. I had run 18:51. Great. Another 31 minutes and change to go. I turned off the Garmin and turned it back on and just ran. Thirty one minutes. Somewhere along the way it beeped to tell me I had run 1 mile. Whatever. It felt good to run a little longer. I'll keep going like this: 50 mins, 55 mins, 60 mins, etc.

There's a cool-sounding race this Sunday I'd like to check out. I think I can squeeze 20 bucks out of my budget, but we'll see.

My goal this week is to get in 4 runs. One down, 3 to go!