I've seen the iPod nano kit from Nike which is supposed to help track your running.
Has anyone tried it? Does it work well and is it accurate?
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I bought the Nike iPod Sport kit and I have to say that I'm pretty impressed for a $30 gadget. It uses the iPod nano's simple interface to accomplish more than most simple heart rate monitors.
The best feature about the Nike iPod Sport kit is not the kit itself, but the seamless integration with the nikeplus.com. The nikeplus.com website allows yo to track your running against pre-defined goals and also compare your runs against your own history.
However, the coolest features is that you can compare your running to others in the nikeplus.com community. You can see how others are doing and you can even set up challenges and virtual track meets with other users. The whole competitive and community aspect of the site makes your running much more interesting and also give you the added motivation to continue to push yourself.
The site also has some celebrities online who upload their running data and music playlists, but I wonder if they're really uploading their data. It's more likely that someone is making the stuff up.
As for accuracy, when I first got the kit, I tried it on a run that I mapped out with Google maps to get the exact distance. For something that tracks your running without using GPS, it was fairly close and with 10-15% of the actual distance shown in Google maps. If you want it to be more accurate, you can calibrate it by running over a known distance.
Overall, I have to highly recommend the kit. It's changed my running and for $30, I get something that gives me most of the functionality provided by the fancier GPS based units.
The only downside is that it doesn't give you your heart rate. But then again, I know my heart is always pounding at its maximum rate whenever I run anyway.
One last thing, I didn't buy the Nike shoes to use with the kit. I use it with my Asics and I bought a little pouch that attaches to the top of my running shoes. It works just as well and I didn't have to buy the Nike running shoes, which aren't as comfortable as my Asics.
they've integrated the Instead of just showing the basic details of your run, the website allows you to compare your running to other usersfeatures available on the nikeplus.com
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You get distance and pace. That's good. Can't be more accurate that any other one (left) foot pedometer. Costs $29. I want heart rate, also. Give me the moon. lol.
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I gave it a demo when it was at a fair. It worked rather well. I liked the feature of getting the music to sync with your run. It does a pretty good job of tracking everything. It's not too expensive either. I'd get one if my iPod was working.
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I bought it and tried it but I don't really use it anymore. At first it was interesting to see your distance and pace but after a while, it got annoying for me. I pretty much run the same route so I didn't really need to measure the distance.
I can see how it would be useful if I was traveling and I wanted to run a certain distance but that's about it.
The pacing feature was about the only thing that was useful. However, it ended up being a gimmick that didn't really help me with my running. I have good days and bad days and on a bad day, I know I'm falling behind. I just don't need a female voice telling me that I'm falling behind.
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I bought the Nike iPod Sport kit and I have to say that I'm pretty impressed for a $30 gadget. It uses the iPod nano's simple interface to accomplish more than most simple heart rate monitors.
The best feature about the Nike iPod Sport kit is not the kit itself, but the seamless integration with the nikeplus.com. The nikeplus.com website allows yo to track your running against pre-defined goals and also compare your runs against your own history.
However, the coolest features is that you can compare your running to others in the nikeplus.com community. You can see how others are doing and you can even set up challenges and virtual track meets with other users. The whole competitive and community aspect of the site makes your running much more interesting and also give you the added motivation to continue to push yourself.
The site also has some celebrities online who upload their running data and music playlists, but I wonder if they're really uploading their data. It's more likely that someone is making the stuff up.
As for accuracy, when I first got the kit, I tried it on a run that I mapped out with Google maps to get the exact distance. For something that tracks your running without using GPS, it was fairly close and with 10-15% of the actual distance shown in Google maps. If you want it to be more accurate, you can calibrate it by running over a known distance.
Overall, I have to highly recommend the kit. It's changed my running and for $30, I get something that gives me most of the functionality provided by the fancier GPS based units.
The only downside is that it doesn't give you your heart rate. But then again, I know my heart is always pounding at its maximum rate whenever I run anyway.
One last thing, I didn't buy the Nike shoes to use with the kit. I use it with my Asics and I bought a little pouch that attaches to the top of my running shoes. It works just as well and I didn't have to buy the Nike running shoes, which aren't as comfortable as my Asics.
they've integrated the Instead of just showing the basic details of your run, the website allows you to compare your running to other usersfeatures available on the nikeplus.com
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