Average pace: 5:12/km
Location: Burnaby Lake, CCW
Distance: 5km
Weather: Sunny
Temp: 21ºC
Wind: light
Calories burned: 364
Total distance to date: not recorded. Check the next run!
In which I try to figure out what the heck was going on with my iPod and try to get a decent run in, too.
To prepare I charged my old iPod nano (the one with the video camera), charged my new iPod and for good measure I attached a new Nike+ sensor to my new running shoes and linked it to the new iPod. My plan was to run the 2 km of the Brunette River trail with the new iPod, see if it was still out of whack, then run a similar test withe the old iPod and sensor to see how that would compare.
The initial test gave the same results as my last run, with the pace recorded being more like a walk, ludicrously slow and inaccurate as can be. I decided to walk the few hundred meters to Burnaby Lake and set out on a full run (or as much as I could manage, feeling the effects of a head cold). I broke out the old iPod and discovered that it had glitched during its sync (despite my being extra careful, such is technology) and none of the music was available.
Instead of running silently I opted to use the new iPod with the sensor, bypassing its internal pedometer.
It was warmer than usual and that, combined with my cold meant I didn’t have the gas for a full run. I ended at the halfway mark (which with the other part of the test came out to around 7 km) and a pace of 5:12/km. Not bad under the conditions. The left foot was bugging me again, too. I shake my fist at it.
The good news, such as it was, is that the new iPod seems reasonably accurate with the sensor on my shoe. I’ll be sticking to this more traditional setup from now on. It does have one small advantage in that you no longer need to plug a receiver into the iPod anymore, so as long as I bring that there’s no chance of forgetting any of the hardware at home.
