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My improvement is irritatingly small but, for the record:

10K

First race - 2006 - 45:56

PB - 2009 - 44:40

An improvement of 1 minute and 16 seconds!  

My half time has improved a bit more though and it was the same race so it's a bone fide improvement rather than the PB being on an easier course or something:

Half Marathon

First race - 2008 - 1:44:52

PB - 2010 - 1:40:58

Of course, I've have improved massively from when I started running and couldn't manage to the end of my road without having to stop. I didn't get round to doing a proper race until I had already been running consistantly for about a year though, so I don't have an beginners time to compare to.

Intermanaut wrote (see)

If auto-pause cuts in when you're waiting for three minutes to cross a road or for a train to pass, you're getting a three minute rest, so isn't it only right, proper and honest to turn it off?

I have AP enabled on mine, but I'm neither right, proper nor honest.

Yeah, I can see your point but it's just the way it screws up your average pace when you aren't stopping because you want or need to that bugs me.

Like when people stop me to ask for directions (which only ever seems to happen when I'm out running for some reason!) I feel totally justified in not counting that time. 

I mean I do get a rest from it but most of the time I'd much rather keep going and not lose my rhythm. 

The problem is that I'm quite absent minded enough to stop it manually and then forget to start it again and miss out a large chunck of my run or ride.

I did it several times before I discovered the auto-pause function, resulting in workouts with great big straight lines accross the map where I appear to have teleported from one location to another. 

I agree that it's better to turn off auto pause when doing a race but I find it very useful in training.

I tend to try and avoid suburban roads and pavements and run on trails, footpaths, fields etc. but often on my routes I need to cross over fast country roads. Depending on the time of day and traffic I can be waiting for a couple of minutes, a few seconds, or sometimes get straight over without breaking stride.

If my Garmin didn't auto pause during the longer stops it would obviously make that run look a lot slower than it actually was.

LS21 wrote (see)

Just on the wear of the Lunar Glides - I know a few have issues with them, but mine have racked up over 750+ miles now and are still ok. Only issue I have with them is stones getting stuck in the groove on the bottom. Drives me crackers that!

Exactly the same here!

I'm now up to 1400K on mine and they still look ok to me (although the orange part is still far to bright! )

I probably should get some new ones but I can't bring myself to part with the cash seeing as they are still doing the job.

Stones getting stuck in that groove and scraping loudly as you run is a right pain in the ass though. If I ever get a bit of flint stuck in there I'm going to be starting fires all over the place.