As I previously mentioned, Reagan and I are totally pumped about our new pedometers. Apparently though, calibration is necessary in order for it to be accurate. We discovered this last night. Reagan and I decided to do a 6 mi. run together after work. It is a route that we had both taken several times before. When we tried to judge the distance before, just using Google maps and mapmyrun.com, it always shows up as 6+ miles. Well, according to Reagan’s watch, it was 6.65 miles, and we had a sub-8 minute per mile pace. According to mine, we had only gone 5.5 miles with a pace of over 9 minutes per mile. I don’t know if it is because I’m tall and take a longer stride or what. I was pretty annoyed though. A discrepancy of over a mile, after only running 6, is a pretty large margin. Over nine minutes a mile? I walk faster than that. Anyway, when we got home, I calibrated it to match Reagan’s. Now we just need to do another run together, to see if it worked. Sorry that I’m writing about this crap 2 days in a row. It’s on my mind, ok?
Are you calibrated?
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4 responses to “Are you calibrated?”
Ouch, I run about a 9 minute mile pace. Try not to hate on us slower people too much there speedy Gonzalez.
How did you calibrate it? I know for boring pedometers that just show the step count and distance, the distance is uusually estimated by like a 2.7 foot stride length. So you just have to go to a track and runa a mile and see how many steps you took and say “hmm, okay, 847 steps a mil even thought my pedometer says it is .75 miles. I am sure this is not how your pedometer works, but just in case one day you decide to go oldschool or something.
Wow. Maybe next time I will proof read a little.
The way that you calibrate the Nike one, is when you sync it. On the utility if you go into options, it will list the distance of your last workout. If the distance it lists, is different than what you know it really should be, you can just input the correct number. Then hopefully it will adjust the way it calculates, for the next time. I will test it out tonight to see if it made a difference.