Scott...im a huge fan of the nike+ sensor. I got mine in Jan and it motivates me like crazy. My favorite part is when you hit a running milestone and a celebrity voice comes on and congratulates you immediately. I am always listening for Lance Armstrong. I too am lookin for the perfect running headphones so please keep me posted on what you find.
Peter, yeah, I heard my first Lance Armstrong a few days ago. Nice touch.
I've tried a lot of headphoness, and I think the issue is a very individual one. Wnat works for me may not work for you. I see lots of people running with the standard iPod earbuds. They just won't stay in my ears. There's nothing more annoying than earphones that keep falling out on a run.
I found some great earbuds from phillips that have around the ear stabilizers, but one of them broke on me just yesterday.
And I'm about to test out some new ones that I picked up at EMS yesterday. I'll report on that tomorrow.
Nike rules! I hadn't run since high school, but I thought Nike was so cool I actually started running again. Of course, my runs are more like 2 or 3 miles...not the Jangro 6 mile specials, but hopefully I'll get there ;)
Didn't realize you could grab those widgets from Nike...gonna have to add that to my blog.
As for headphones, I use the Sony MDR-EX70LP Earbud Headphones and they work really well for running. The only thing I would say is to buy the black ones, not the white ones. For some reason the white rubber around the wires gets really soft and falls apart pretty easily...but the black ones don't do that.
Happy running.
Well, you are WAY ahead of me as I so need to get fit, it's not funny anymore.
Would you believe me if I said I lived very close to a gym.
Yep. I do.
AND I have membership there too.
Bad, aren't I?
I'm glad this was going good for you though. I guess once you gain momentum, it becomes easier.
I say *was as I don't see a recent update on your blog on how things are going for to you.
Anyway, all the best.
Nike rules! I hadn't run since high school, but I thought Nike was so cool I actually started running again. Of course, my runs are more like 2 or 3 miles...not the Jangro 6 mile specials, but hopefully I'll get there ;)
Didn't realize you could grab those widgets from Nike...gonna have to add that to my blog.
As for headphones, I use the Sony MDR-EX70LP Earbud Headphones and they work really well for running. The only thing I would say is to buy the black ones, not the white ones. For some reason the white rubber around the wires gets really soft and falls apart pretty easily...but the black ones don't do that.
Happy running.
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Yesterday's run was rough and I should have taken the day off to rest, but I couldn't help myself. See I picked up a new toy yesterday: A Nike+ iPod Sport Kit.
If you haven't heard of it, it's a small device that plugs into the bottom of an iPod nano. This device talks to another small device that fits under the insole of your Nike running shoe. I've been wanting to try this out ever since I'd heard of it and since it was time to buy some new running shoes, I decided to give it a try. So along with a new pair of Nike shoes, I spent $29 on the sport kit. $29 for the device seems really cheap to me. Though if I didn't already have an iPod nano, this would have been probably too expensive for merely a curiosity. Actually, I seem to have misplaced my Nano as I've been using one of the new iPod shuffles and lost track of where I put it. Thankfully, I still had one left from the dozen or so that we won in an affiliate sales contest a few years ago waiting for such an occasion. So I cracked that open.
After charging up the iPod, I took it for a run. It's a simpler version of what I get from my Polar running watch. It measures time, distance and pace and displays them on the iPod. It can be hard to read the iPod display when it's strapped to your arm, so what's nice is that by pressing the middle button, you can have the time, pace, and distance read to you by a sexy woman's voice (or man's if that's your preference) through the headphones. You can also set it up for some target goals and I assume she'll egg you on if you drop below a certain pace, but I just left it on a basic workout.
What's really cool about this is that it syncs with iTunes and stores your running data there. And iTunes will connect to the nikeplus service which graphs out your workouts. In addition to keeping track of your workouts, you can set goals (distance, speed, etc.) and even challenge your friends. The widget below is from that service showing my recent run.
You can click on the widget to see a nicer view of my run. I didn't enter my weight into the iPod which is why it didn't track calories, I think. The green line represents pace and as you can see, I was running pretty slowly yesterday. I started out strong, but things got rough. I attribute this to a few factors:
Goal Progress My pathetic run yesterday belies what I've been accomplishing recently. My earlier runs this week were all in the 9-minute mile pace, which is getting pretty close to where I like to be. On Monday, I actually ran on a local high school track (flat, rubberized) and ran in the 8's.
I'm down about 5 lbs to 174. The weight always comes off slowly at first as fat is replaced with heavier muscle. Now that the muscle is there, the lbs. should start dropping a little more rapidly. At least that's how things have worked out in the past.
Thanks! Most of my early supporters have become a bit bored with this it seems ;) but thankfully they're replaced with some new ones. It really does help keep me going knowing that I have this public view into my efforts. So please keep it up.
So, once again, thanks for your support: