Saturday, February 7, 2009

week 5 complete

ran *more than* 20 minutes today. Sometimes the podcast does not have all the warm-up time built in, so I was concerned that since today was just warm-up, run, cool down, there might be less warm-up music. So I started to run sooner. (Turns out there was indeed a arm up to run cue... Oh well.) The run was scheduled for 20 minutes. I think I ran about 22 minutes. some interesting pain in my shins and outer portion of my calves. probably due to the punishment they take from the body above them.

I need to plan a time to calibrate the Nike+iPod so I can get accurate numbers. However, I am not certain that will be time well spent since I am still developing my pace, and things should change. I suspect the Nike+iPod system sort of assumes how fast your pace is based on how long your foot is in the air, and since I still shuffle so much as I extend time rather than speed, the calibration might still drift as I improve. not sure. I guess I'll try and calbrate at some point and see.