Shoe surgery and my first run with Nike+Ipod
After getting back from a meeting today, I had some time to get back to my Nike Running schedule and so I performed some minor surgery to a shoe to get the Nike+ sensor into underneath the sole. (Ya, attaching it outside is also ok but I preferred to have it in). Had to do some hacking get it fitted nicely and here’s how it looks.
I then attached the receiver to the Nano and it instantly was ready to receive data from the sensor. Did a quick walk down the steps to get a feel of the audio feedback (which was surprisingly nice sounding, I chose female voice). And so I started my actual lap to walk 15 min. Did a slightly longer one in the end since listening to music got me distracted enough from usual panting away.
After getting back, syncing the Nano with ITunes required me to enter my Nike id and it quickly synced the data with Nike+ site which has a nice graph of the distance that was done.
Also, since I had a training schedule at Nike Running, it also synced the information to the schedule (although it would have been nicer to match it to my goal for the day).
Of course, since MichaelYuhui.com runs Wordpress, I had to look around for a plugin that could pull all this data onto our own site. Managed to find one from ear-fung.us but alas, I seem to have hit a wall as it keeps saying “Error: session authentication failed”. Am not really in the mood to debug code so shall leave it for another day.
All in all, I’m quite happy with my purchase and would encourage those who don’t mind using technology to help improve their fitness to try out Nike+. Of course, the geek in me had to find out where all the data is stored and how to do more with them 
Some links if you are also interested in doing more with Nike+
http://blog.mattmecham.com/2006/09/05/ipod-training-data-under-the-hood/
I would also definitely like to find a way to have a paced audio feedback from the nano like that mentioned in this thread. *grin* too bad VS 2005 doesn’t have way to write code for the nano.
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I love the Nike system. it’s incredibly motivating for me. Anyway, check out http://www.runnerplus.com it’s a new site that is improving on what Nike has done and adding a community aspect to your runs and training.
by michael
Hi Mike,
Thanks for the link.. and you’ll be glad to know I’m already a member of Runner . Talked to Chris last week about it too. Will be writing about experience with the system soon as I get some running time with it.
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