Good Afternoon! Good Evening!
-Three laps around the reservoir later (4.5 miles)....
*I did a couple of intervals, so I walked 1.5 of those miles, and ran the remaining 3.
And why did I do such a thing? Well, I wanted to give my new iPod and my new Nike+iPod Sport Kit a test run. Literally. Very cool. Oh, since I finally found the armband combo that allows you to use the Nike+ without Nike+ enabled shoes, I gave that a try this afternoon too. *I have wide feet, so I wear New Balance - Nike shoes, for the most part, don't come in variable widths. In any case...
The Nike+ Kit has a transmitter you place in (or on) your shoe, and a receiver that plugs into your iPod nano. Once you set it up, it will record distance, time, pace. While you're running/jogging/walking, each time you push the center button, a voice (you can choose a male of female voice) tells you your current distance, time and pace. And then afterwards, you can upload the info to your computer and to Nike's website. -Which I still have yet to, so...
It was a bit cool out, but I bundled up appropriately. I wanted to get the sensor properly calibrated, so that comprised a good deal of my workout... unintentionally. I was setting it up to calibrate a 1/4-mile distance, but since I kept missing the mile markers along the trail... Third time was the good one.
Alas, I'm definitely going to have to buy a different set of earphones. Ones that stay in my ears. But it really felt good to get the heart rate up for a bit and break a bit of a sweat (even in the cold).
