Nick Bare

I ordered a G-Shock.

Now the G-Shock watch is what I wore when I was in the army.

And back then I'd go for a run.

I didn't track any of my mileage on a run or my pace.

I'd go run for an hour.

I looked at my watch.

All right, it's 1 p.m.

I'm going to go run till 2 p.m.

And I know my average pace is roughly 730 minutes per mile.

So I'll probably get roughly eight miles in.

When I was in the army,

We all wore G-Shock watches.

We had Garmin's, but it wasn't a Garmin watch.

We wore a Garmin GPS wrist mount on our kits.

And the only reason we wore those Garmin's was to pull a 10 digit grid coordinate so we could pinpoint where we were on a map.

When I was in the Army, that's what a Garmin was for.

It was to pull a 10-digit grid coordinate to triangulate yourself on a map to figure out where you were at and then how to get to where you're going.

And the G-Shock watch I wore in the Army did everything I needed it to do.

I never had to charge it, told me the time, didn't affect any of my runs.

And I'm going back to G-Shock.