Warning: Nerd Alert! I am definitely that type A personality, first child attribute person that is particular and, lets just face it, 'anal' at times. I really like lists....I make them for anything and everything. I adore my Awesome Note app on my iPhone and have so many things filed away in that little spot of joy : ) So it should come as no surprise that one of the things I really like about running is the stat aspect. I like having my mile schedule listed out by the day and synced with my iPhone calendar. I like using the Nike+ app while running for the verbal stat feedback and the archive that it keeps about each run. I like that I then sync my Nike+ workouts to Dailymile.com where more information can be recorded and it tabulates and spits everything out in cool chart and graph form. I like that I wear my Garmin Forerunner for a second GPS record and all the route, elevation, and split timing data it provides. I know it's so overkill, but it makes this stat nerd happy.
Today I ran prior to going into work. The wind was crazy brutal and at points it felt as if I were running in place. It was pretty interesting to look at my Garmin splits afterwards. It's pretty evident that mile 2 is where I was running straight into the southerly winds!
Dailymile is great. It keeps more of an overall tabulation of your running progress. It tells you how many calories you have burned and then converts that into how many donuts or cheeseburgers that would equal...love it! It also has informational graphs. This is the graph of how may miles/month I have run since I signed up last June. It's very telling of my journey to train for and then run a marathon in October, recover, struggle through the winter months on the treadmill, and then now to be rebuilding my mileage up again.
So I am a little OCD when it comes to running stats, but it motivates me to keep going so whatever.
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