The most interesting feature atleast to me is that after running it shows a profile of your previous run on the computer screen where you can see your relative pace in different parts of the workout. It seems that the system didn't measure the distance as well as it could have, but maybe that's only because I haven't had the time to calibrate my Nike+iPod system on an athletics field yet. After that I might post some actual workout data.
Anyway I tried the system today and it really has it's pros and cons. The newest generation iPod nano is a pretty light mp3-player and therefore rather good for running, and at least the lenght of the workout is easy to measure with the system. The biggest problem so far is that in order to measure distances correctly the sensor has to be attached to the shoe very securely and that is rather difficult to do on shoes that are not Nike+ enabled.
I'll try to get some more Nike+ products to be tested actually there is a rather interesting Nike+ racing level running shoe released lately that I might add into my collection of running shoes. Also the Nike+ Sportsband digital watch that allows using a Nike+ sensor without carrying an iPod seems rather interesting, since I'm honestly far from being the biggest fan of the whole iPod phenomenon even though I'm an owner of one and have reluctantly installed iTunes on my computer as well.
Oh, and about today's run itself. Nothing to write home about. About 8,5km in a bit under 35 minutes.
- Jason
I felt, too, that my Ipod wasn't showing the right distance after running, and decided to calibrate the gadget. What happened, though, was that it became more inaccurate :).
VastaaPoistaI already have one pair of Nike+ shoes (Air Span+ 5, which has by far been my best structured/support shoe), and I'm going to buy-and-try the new version of the shoe (Air Span+ 6) and the new plus-version of Nike Air Zoom Skylon (as I already have the one-year-old model of the shoe).
-Kosti