When I was starting to run, Gary bought me an iPod Nano and a cool little doohickey called a Nike+. There's a little thing that goes into a pouch on my shoe and then I calibrated the receiver so it would know how I'm running and it keeps track of how fast I run and how far I go. It's really cool and I love it.
Most of the time.
I don't know exactly how it works, but I think it has something to do with the force of my foot hitting the ground and the time between my foot strikes. Or something. I don't know. Anyway. I love it because it tells me that I've run a lot of miles and it tells me whether I'm running at the pace I want, etc. etc. etc.
The Nike+ does not work well on the treadmill.
A treadmill run is generally going to be fairly evenly paced. (Long and boring.) But this morning when I ran, my Nike+ was telling me that I was running 10'40"/mile and then I'd look again and it said I was running 7'52"/mile and it just kept bouncing around like that for the whole run. It's disappointing because I thought I was going at a pretty good pace (pretty good for me, anyway) because I had the treadmill set to run 9'10"/mile, yet that is not what my pace setter was telling me! I didn't wake up at 6am so I could have a 9'37"/mile run.
Why not just get a Garmin? That would keep an accurate count of my pace and my miles run. Well, I just don't know. I feel like the Nike+ and I have a history and I've accumulated over 1700 miles with it and I just don't know if I can start something new. Also, REAL runners have Garmins. I don't know if I'm ready to admit that I'm that hardcore. Is that silly?
Perhaps. I mean, I am almost in training for a marathon. I think that probably qualifies me as a hardcore runner somehow. But, maybe not at the pace I'm planning on running. However, that's a post best left for another day.
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