I bought a watch with a stopwatch function last year because I was training for a half marathon. I paid about a buck two fifty for it on Amazon.
This, by the way, is how long it took me to run four miles last Thursday. Including the time it took for:
1. Buster to poop
2. two traffic lights to turn green, and
3. me to walk up and back down the Hill of Pain on the way home.
I never take my watch off, not even in the shower. It has a rubber wristband, so I slide it around to make sure my wrist doesn’t sprout a fungus or something. Here’s the timer function:
I don’t know what a real athlete would do with a timer, but I use it to compensate for the Swiss cheese between my ears. If I’m supposed to call someone in 15 minutes, I set the timer. If I only have 45 minutes to work before I have to leave my office for an appointment, I set the timer. It helps me successfully imitate a punctual and organized person.
Sometimes, I set it for two minutes while I brush my teeth in the shower. I usually just count ‘one mississippi two mississippi’ to thirty. Four times. It’s very Zen in a numerical dental health kind of way.
Once in a while, I have to remember something that happens more than an hour away. The timer only goes up to an hour.
So I use the alarm function:
This is when I had to leave my office the Tuesday before last to pick up the Dancing Fairy from the carpool stop. Every day since then, my watch has politely beeped at me at 3:20 every afternoon. I don’t know how to turn the alarm function off.
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