Nike + Ipod Not Tracking Proper Distance

My ipod nano has also started tracking the wrong distance. This is the second sport kit I've purchased. (That was Nike's answer when the problem started two months into my owning it.) So, Nike, what's the problem??????

IS it showing properly on the Nike website after you uploaded your workout? And did it start after upgrading software? If so, it might just be a glitch, and displaying it in kilometers (Km metric system) on the ipod.

The Nike + iPod sports kit is just a pedometer. It will never show you the real distance. In your case the deviation is extreme, I agree.

To get the exact distance of your workout you can use a freeware called TrailRunner ( http://trailrunnerx.com). The app allows you to layout your route on a map like in GoogleEarth and then connect that route to your workout. Both the route and the workout data are then stored in the diary on your mac. So you're independed from nikeplus.

There's also a tutorial online on how that works:
http://www.trailrunnerx.com/en_tutorial

Hope this was useful.
- berbie.

I just bought my Nike+, today was its maiden voyage. I ran a 15K race, it said I ran .07 miles, and that's also how it uploaded. It doesn't read the right distance in kilometers, either. What's going on? What do I do?
Thanks!
MG

Same issue here. I have tried calibrating using the 400 meters option on a college track. Logs me as running .04 miles, not .25.
I tried this 4 times same result.
Tried walking the 400 meters got upto .6 miles.

Any help would be appreciated.

I'm beginning to hate this thing. I just went out for a jog with my nike pedometer with the intention of calibrating the unit. I carried my GPS unit in the other hand to track the distance run.

I tried calibrating for a run by selecting 0.25 miles. I watched my GPS unit and at 0.25 miles the IPOD had only accumulated 0.03 miles. I selected to end the calibration, but it told me the distances did not match and would not let me calibrate.

I did it again using 400 meters. I had gone 450 meters by the time I looked at my ipod, but my GPS unit had 1.5 km. So in essence, I just made the calibration even worse by accepting 450 m for a 400 m calibration.

Arg! Why is it so low? No one can possible have a stride that short?

mapmyrun.com is a good site for tracking runs.

Success!!!! I saw a post about the position of the sensor affecting the mileage, but no report if it was successful or not. Sure enough!!! I flipped it over (sensor power button facing the ground) and it worked.

I have the same problem. When I calibrate 400 meters an thereafter run the same distance and pace that I used when calibrating it shows 440 meters.

I read an article that the nike+ system should have only 3% wrong after a calibration.

The calibration only did make it worse for me.

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