I’ve tried at various times over the years to do the same, but I invariably lost track of whatever I used to log my miles, or I had some interruption of my schedule by the Army and never got back to it, only to start back up later with a new log. Bad for continuity that way, to be sure.

If I searched long and hard enough, I bet I could find half a dozen memo pads or notebooks somewhere in this house with some mileage and/or weight training logs in them. Not worth the bother, though, because they would be disjointed and mostly useless since the periods covered would be so widely separated by times I wasn’t logging at all.

The Nike+ iPod system not only takes the hassle out of logging for me, but it keeps me more honest, too. You can’t do one thing and log another this way. And there is no subjectivity in the system — you cover so many miles in so many minutes and that’s that. This blog is — or will be — where the subjective element will be recorded, as I plan to use it for comments on my runs, and commentary in general about things affecting my running.

Also — probably the sexiest part for me — it all appeals to the geek inside. It’s a damned neat gadget and I’m a sucker for damned neat gadgets.