So I tried it all over again, using the instructions' suggestion to calibrate using a workout I'd already completed. I ran another 1.5 miles and guess what? This time I'd only run 1.12 miles, according to the sensor. The cool female voice berated me for running a 12:30 mile.
I got online and typed in "can't calibrate Nike +" and I got about a billion hits. Apparently these things are very temperamental. Among my mistakes:
- taping the sensor to my shoe rather than shelling out $70 for a pair of Nike+ shoes
- running on a treadmill
- aligning the sensor vertically rather than horizontally
- running hills
So looks like I'll be trying this all over again, which means I have to go to a track. And decide if I want to buy new shoes (mine are about 3 years old, so they're getting a little battered, but I love them), or jimmy the sensor in my laces somehow.
STATS: 3 miles, 8:30/mile or 12:30, take your pick, Steve Jobs.
How do you run in shoes that old? I get tendinitis in my knees and shin splints when I try to run regularly in anything more than 500 miles. I over pronate so I'm more susceptible to those types of injuries.
ReplyDeleteI replace my shoes when my knees start hurting--although the side of my foot has been hurting when I run over 7 or 8 miles. I've been putting off replacing them until I can visit the shoe store in my hometown that does gait analysis--I'm pretty sure I'm overpronating, but not positive.
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