If you've been following here for a few years, you know that I like to run while fully decked out in gadgets.
While I enjoy running, it is easy to fall off the wagon. But thanks to the friendly competition with my industry friends all over the world in communities like Nike+, I find it very easy to keep up with the workouts.
After a long, fat winter I joined the Affiliate Summit East Nike+ challenge which motivated me like nothing before.
Running Apps
For running apps, I have been using both Runkeeper and Nike+ on my iPhone. Now that iOS has multi-tasking, both apps can track at the same time, which is pretty remarkable, and only a little bit cumbersome to manage.
Nike just introduced a GPS-based tracking app in addition to the app that comes built into the iPhone that links to a device that goes in your shoe. I tested that out yesterday along-side runkeeper. Here's Nike+ GPS on the left and Runkeeper on the right.
They both tracked the overall run very well, though the nike app seemed to have some trouble with the splits and short-term paces. For example, early in the run it reported that I was running 5 and 6 minute mile paces. There's no way! I think that's probably due to some GPS inaccuracies, which is inevitable. Runkeeper seems to do a better job with that.
If you do try running both apps toether, here's a tip: Set the voice on one to male and the other female. That way you can keep track of which app is giving an update.
In the end, both proved to be good tracking solutions, though I like the Runkeeper web interface MUCH better than the Nike one, except for one big problem: Community.
Community
Runkeeper is currently missing a few things that are critical source of motivation for me: most of my online running friends aren't there and it is missing challenges.
Dozens of my friends use Nike+ for tracking, and the importance of that cannot be overstated. I can't very well ask them to all move to a different tracking solution. And if I did get them to move over to Runkeeper, what do we do there? We have a lot of fun with challenges in Nike+, even though the interface is horrible. Runkeeper doesn't have that feature (yet).
So I'm now testing out dailymile.com, which doesn't itself have a tracking app, but it does sync with Garmin GPS devices and Nike+. It would be amazing if they could import from other apps like Runkeeper and 321Run as well. But worst case, you can enter your workouts manually.
This is where Dailymile has a huge benefit. People can pretty much use any tracking solution they want and still participate in challenges there.
The best part about Daily mile is the interaction with other people there. They've done a great job with the friend interaction, keeping motivation front and center as the number one feature.
So what do you say? Join the small but growing group of affiliate marketers over in dailymile?
Here's my profile. Add me as a friend and I'll invite you to the friendly challenge that we're just getting started.
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If you've been following here for a few years, you know that I like to run while fully decked out in gadgets.
While I enjoy running, it is easy to fall off the wagon. But thanks to the friendly competition with my industry friends all over the world in communities like Nike+, I find it very easy to keep up with the workouts.
After a long, fat winter I joined the Affiliate Summit East Nike+ challenge which motivated me like nothing before.
Running Apps
For running apps, I have been using both Runkeeper and Nike+ on my iPhone. Now that iOS has multi-tasking, both apps can track at the same time, which is pretty remarkable, and only a little bit cumbersome to manage.
Nike just introduced a GPS-based tracking app in addition to the app that comes built into the iPhone that links to a device that goes in your shoe. I tested that out yesterday along-side runkeeper. Here's Nike+ GPS on the left and Runkeeper on the right.
They both tracked the overall run very well, though the nike app seemed to have some trouble with the splits and short-term paces. For example, early in the run it reported that I was running 5 and 6 minute mile paces. There's no way! I think that's probably due to some GPS inaccuracies, which is inevitable. Runkeeper seems to do a better job with that.
If you do try running both apps toether, here's a tip: Set the voice on one to male and the other female. That way you can keep track of which app is giving an update.
In the end, both proved to be good tracking solutions, though I like the Runkeeper web interface MUCH better than the Nike one, except for one big problem: Community.
Community
Runkeeper is currently missing a few things that are critical source of motivation for me: most of my online running friends aren't there and it is missing challenges.
Dozens of my friends use Nike+ for tracking, and the importance of that cannot be overstated. I can't very well ask them to all move to a different tracking solution. And if I did get them to move over to Runkeeper, what do we do there? We have a lot of fun with challenges in Nike+, even though the interface is horrible. Runkeeper doesn't have that feature (yet).
Enter Dailymile.com...
So I'm now testing out dailymile.com, which doesn't itself have a tracking app, but it does sync with Garmin GPS devices and Nike+. It would be amazing if they could import from other apps like Runkeeper and 321Run as well. But worst case, you can enter your workouts manually.
This is where Dailymile has a huge benefit. People can pretty much use any tracking solution they want and still participate in challenges there.
The best part about Daily mile is the interaction with other people there. They've done a great job with the friend interaction, keeping motivation front and center as the number one feature.
So what do you say? Join the small but growing group of affiliate marketers over in dailymile?
Here's my profile. Add me as a friend and I'll invite you to the friendly challenge that we're just getting started.