A Great Piedmont (East Bay) Run

This is a new 4mi. run I've just added to my repertoire (Here's the route on the Gmaps Pedometer). It starts by the Rose Garden in Oakland, goes up Oakland Ave (a big hill), then takes Highland and Mandala back down to Oakland and hooks up with Grand Ave. It's a great morning run as Piedmont is full of lush landscapedness and there's not too much traffic. One note: this is a hilly run with at least three big hills; Oakland ave is huge, Mandala has a significant bump right before Grand Ave. and that last bit up Oakland Ave. towards the Rose Garden is a similar size as Mandala.

I was really interested to read Eric's post about his new GPS/HRM wristwatch, a Garmin Forerunner 350 (see: "A frickin' GPS on my frickin' wrist"). Being able to get real-time velocity, heart rate, store lat/lon and even to be able to get yourself out of situations where you're lost on a trail sounds a-freakin'-mazing. I'll have to figure out a way to get one of these for near the price he did (anyone with a Costco membership out there?).