Mind how you go..

'10 things you didn't know you could do with a smartphone'.  What a load of tosh.  This was an article on Yahoo that simply stated you could download apps to do x number of things.  It's a bit like saying '10 items of food you didn't know could go into your fridge'.  Unless you want the food, you wouldn't buy them, and if you did, you could just look for them and buy them.  Having said all that, I did go to the app store and look for the 'instant heartrate' app - even if I delete it it's a freebie so no risk.
Just tried the heartrate thing - it looks pretty good, so I'm taking back all my assumptions about it being rubbish.  Evidently I have a rate of 48bpm today, which seems fairly low even for a highly tuned athelete like me, but I guess there's some room of error in there.  I don't know whether to ask my colleague (who I don't know all that well) to try it.  Maybe not, he doesn't give me an impression of being that sort.  Whatever that sort is.
Anyway, another more inportant topic is fitness for the half ironman I plan to do in June.  I did a 9 miler on Sunday and boy did it take some doing.  Could have been because I was assisting my son-in-law to level his concrete on Saturday (31 cubic meters of the stuff!), but my muscles felt bad.  I will need to be doing 13 miles reasonable comfortably to make sure I can do it justice on the day.  No walking is my aim, and get half way up the leader board for my age group.  Next year (2014) I have an eye on the Ironman distance, so If I'm struggling with the half, I can forget the full.  Swimming and biking have their own issues, but the marathon is quite daunting, speaking as someone who did a few marathons some time ago, where if you were not trained up, it was painful.  I'll update this next time I do a few miles.  I think I'll be on the rollers tonight, but I might venture out in my trainers.