09/09/2025 Two Years with Garmin 255

Two years have passed just like a day!

I've been running with this Garmin 255 all these days and the watch has become part of my life, part of me.

The last several months of 2023 is a turning point of my running life, not only because I had this Garmin 255, but also because I changed my way of running: I pay more attention to control my speed, pace and rythme, in perusing a better endurance. That effectively made me be able to run longer time and further in distance.

During these two years, I totaled 406 workouts and a distance of 4280 kilometers, which is almost the sum of all the runs that I did before, in 13 years! This really is incredible and I'm really prod for what I've achieved so far.

Now, I'm 5344 + 4280 =  9624 km away from Antibes where I set off.

On the map, I completed the "Antibes-Beijing, Part 1" road which is 8414 km in total. There is a small difference than the route I traced many many years ago, partly due to the fact that when I drag on the map, it is not so precise, and also, the routes today are not the same routes as years ago!

So here is the completed first part of the road:

Now, on the "Antibes-Beijing, Part 2" map, I can also put 1210 km and in fact a huge surprise is that I entered the territory of China, I'm back to China!

I passed by Urumqi, the capital of Xijiang, then Turpan and now I'm almost at Hami and I went too fast to even enjoy a bit the small and big cities.

But I will continue with excitement to complete the last 2740 km before I come back to Beijing, and it seems I'm in advance in the timing as I initially planned!