I admit it. I don’t understand the Nike+ website. I love uploading my runs, and I love looking at the little graphs and such, but none of it makes any sense to me. Runs that I know were 8-10 minutes per mile appear to be 17 minutes per mile. When I click on the icon to compare my runs it sometimes works and more often does not. How it chooses which runs to compare is beyond me. I’m frustrated because I don’t understand how to use the site, and as far as I can tell there are no instructions.

Today I tried to incorporate some of the Chi Running focuses and it was pretty neat. When I was able to get into the right form, running really did feel almost effortless (just like the book claims). My time also went from 10 min/mile to 8 min/mile, so that was exciting. A lot of the time I just couldn’t get the form correct and so for most of my run/walk my knees hurt, my shins, hurt, my side ached, and my abs hurt. (That’s another thing about Chi Running, you use your core muscles instead of your legs. Which is cool but I don’t think I have any core muscles to use.) It was exciting that I was able to run further and faster than I have before now.

I’m pretty proud of myself that I have kept this up and I am getting better every day.