I know, I know, I am *so* late to the game on this one, the game has in fact finished and the stadium is in darkness.. but despite that, I have decided to post a little something about Nike+ and an iPod. As I mentioned yesterday, my big gripe with this system is that Apple have decided to totally skip out the iPod touch 1st gen from supporting it. It frustrates me that I have to have and manage two iPods. As @hotdogsladies would say, totally a first world problem, but still a bit annoying.

This term I decided to try out the whole ‘being a bit healthy’ thing, and it isn’t too bad, but exercise truly is the most stultifyingly boring portion of my life. It is right up there with Statistics lectures. Yes. *That* boring. Therefore any little bit of shiny technology to distract me from this might just do the trick. What’s more, I have also learned something from looking at the past few days of records:

Screencapture of Nike+ site for last run

Screencapture of Nike+ site for last run

The info is uploaded the the website, and from there you can track progress over the past few days, weeks, months or years. Turns out that I can keep up a decent pace for ~1mile, but then start to drop and fluctuate my pace wildly. Something to work on perhaps.

Is the Nike+ a neccessity? Nope. Is it quite nice to have and use? Definitely. If you have a nano or touch 2nd gen then I would recommend spending the £15. You’re out in the rain if you have an iPhone or touch 1st gen though. While I was reading before buying one I found some great apps for the iPhone 3G which use the GPS to achieve a similar thing. Seemed quite useful so maybe I’ll give them a go in October.