I know I'm capable, I wore my FiveFingers in the wintery slush snow crap we got. I wore them in DC during their freeze in early Jan.
I'm just not used to actually running yet
I will look into the garmin watch. Between the pedometer in my friend's phone (A SonyEricsson) and the published data on the trails, I've got a good idea of the distance (it's right at 5 miles total). The alerts that I drop off are pretty neat.
I was actually going to ask a friend of mine whose always eager for a coding project to see if we could lay the groundwork for an Android application that could use the pedometer, accelerometer, and other sensors in conjunction with the music/playlist function.
My thinking was taking a long track (something trace-y) and having the program detect points where you should speed up or slow down, and get the device to vibrate a certain number of times to indicate the pace change. Naturally logging, distance, speed, time, etc would all be calculated.
So the answer I have is... such a device exists, so it may not be worth the programming effort.
I truly hate the treadmill. Somehow the elliptical is less of a drudgery, but the treadmill... ugh.. i hate it.