Nike Plus, I love You!
Notes on the NIKE PLUS
My first run, I was so excited about the Nike Plus. The system consists of two small, quarter-sized parts. One fits inside the specially designed Nike Plus running shoes (or in your laces) and the second part plugs directly into your IPod Nano. The system is fantastic because it allows you to take off running with no plan. You program the Nike Plus to track you over any distance, in any time and just GO! AWESOME! All the while, your IPod plays your tracks while you pound out the miles. Periodically, a voice comes on and says, “you have completed 2 miles” or whatever distance you have covered thus far. At the end of my longest run, a voice said, “This is Lance Armstrong, congratulations, that was your longest run yet!” Thanks Lance!
The problem showed up on my third run, the day after I had run it through some puddles and probably gotten it wet-the calibration was way off. I ran for 50 minutes and it said I had covered only 2.7 miles. I consistently run 11-12 minute miles so I knew there was a problem with the sensor. Since I had never calibrated it, I figured I better give it a fair chance and do a calibration, which I did, over a flat mile-long trail. Since then, there has no seemed to be a problem. Plus, I always time myself and know pretty clearly-down to a minute or two-how long a run should take me.
PROS-
-You JUST RUN!
-Nike Plus does the work of tracking your distance, your time, and your calories burned
-It small and can fit in your laces or a specially designed pouch you can pick up pretty easily
-You don’t necessarily need Nike shoes
CONS-
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-Can get damaged, slip out of shoes, get wet and is small so easy to loose
-calibration can be off
-some say it has a pretty short life span but hey, it was 30$ so not hard to replace but again, if I get a new one does that mean I loose all my run data?
June 19th, 2007 at 7:41 am
your run data is stored on your ipod not in the sensor. you can backup your data if you want - it is located in \iPod_Control\Device\Trainer\Workouts\Empeds\\
June 19th, 2007 at 7:42 am
shouldn’t have used > and <… the path is: {ipod drive}\iPod_Control\Device\Trainer\Workouts\Empeds\{serial number}\
June 19th, 2007 at 2:21 pm
I can’t just give up my mini for a nano but the appeal of something that automatically tracks distance/time is awesome… and god bless those folks that can run without music — whenever one song ends and another begins when I’m in the middle of my run…i can hear my breathing and wonder if I’ll drop dead at any second..
June 19th, 2007 at 3:44 pm
This Nike+ system looks pretty neat. I might have to test it out myself.
June 25th, 2007 at 9:29 pm
I am glad to know my data is safe. It is safe on the site too. I sent one of these bad boys to my sister who is training for the Marine Corps Marathon and she loves it too!