Calculations, calibrations and counting calories

I had an acceptable ipod, it worked fine, it was getting a bit tricky to switch off but even though it was about 7 years old I didn't have any plans to upgrade it. Then it was brought to my attention (thank you Ali) that Apple were recalling certain ipods as some of the batteries were overheating. Luckily for me my serial number was accepted and after an uncertain wait of a few weeks I took delivery of a brand new and very pretty ipod.

This one is smaller and has a touch screen and I immediately went online to find myself a wrist strap to clip it onto. I had never manage to calibrate my old ipod and was determined this time to do so. Yesterday I measured one mile exactly in my car and treated myself to a very short run this morning. I have a new start/finish line at the bottom of my very steep drive and although I didn't want to run too hard I set off in beautiful sunshine and was soon at my stopping point where I discovered that I had done it wrong! Never mind I had to get home again and that would mean another mile.

My next run will be Wednesday morning, I haven't decided on my route yet but it will be interesting to see how far out my recordings pre calibration were.

I also decided that today is the first day of my get back on track diet. I have put on a solid stone, or maybe a wobbly one over the last couple of years and although I've always been a curvy girl I want to get back to how my size 10s were feeling then rather than how they feel now! I'm going to haver to keep myself busy, busy, busy!