I guess it's easy to define something as a "hobby" once you start spending money on it. So today I will officially announce running/walking ("traversing") as a hobby of mine as I went out and bought some running sneakers specifically just to run in.
I purchased the Nike Air Pegasus+ 2007 which allows me to use the Nike+ running sensor I have to upload my stats to the Nike running web site. Luckily I found them for a great price as the Nike+ sneakers generally are sold at a premium over their other running shoes. I also found out that you don't actually need a Nano to use the sensor; Nike sells a wristband for Nano-less people such as myself which is what I'll be using.
I'm not usually one for paying for the privilege of someone else to keep track of statistics for me since I can generally easily do it myself, but seeing how easy it makes things and the motivation it brings I'd recommend the Nike+ system (or at the least using a GPS) to anyone who wants to start running.
Finally, my monthly tally for this month is... 36.9 miles including 14 of that running.
This actually is only since 8/7 so I should be able to hit 40 miles next month pretty easily as long as I can keep up the same pace!
Sunday, August 31, 2008
Saturday, August 9, 2008
I'm a Proclaimer
I will walk 100 miles...and then I will walk 100 more.
I've decided on a new goal to walk/run 100 miles before the end of the year. I'm not including any traversing before I decided on this so currently I stand at 4.5 miles. I only need to average about a mile/day for the next few non winter months to make my goal which I'm confident I can do. Everything (walking, running, jogging, treadmills, ellipticals) is included in this, but I want to walk at least .5 miles to include it in my total.
I think I'll post monthly totals on here too.
On a similar topic Olaf has the Nike+ running kit thingie for his nano and it's pretty cool. Mostly because the kit keeps track of your running and updates the Nike+ website including keeping you up to date on whichever "program" you've chosen to do.
This is only for the Nano though and I already have a mini so I'm not getting another small iPod. I think it's pretty silly of Apple/Nike not expanding the user base of the kit even if the mini is a discontinued product. Supposedly one of the reasons for not supporting anything except the nano is that the other players are hard drive based, but I should be able to take the risk of my hard drive jumping up and down if I want to. Dumb.
I've decided on a new goal to walk/run 100 miles before the end of the year. I'm not including any traversing before I decided on this so currently I stand at 4.5 miles. I only need to average about a mile/day for the next few non winter months to make my goal which I'm confident I can do. Everything (walking, running, jogging, treadmills, ellipticals) is included in this, but I want to walk at least .5 miles to include it in my total.
I think I'll post monthly totals on here too.
On a similar topic Olaf has the Nike+ running kit thingie for his nano and it's pretty cool. Mostly because the kit keeps track of your running and updates the Nike+ website including keeping you up to date on whichever "program" you've chosen to do.
This is only for the Nano though and I already have a mini so I'm not getting another small iPod. I think it's pretty silly of Apple/Nike not expanding the user base of the kit even if the mini is a discontinued product. Supposedly one of the reasons for not supporting anything except the nano is that the other players are hard drive based, but I should be able to take the risk of my hard drive jumping up and down if I want to. Dumb.
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