First Run

At last, yesterday I tested the Nike+ stuff and it was nice :-). The "nike- sensor-without-nike-plus-shoes" trick worked out smoothly with a little help from some velcro, and the results coming from the end of session stats were perfectly aligned with those from the Technogym running machine.

I must say, it's easy to face a 45 mins running with a sexy voice telling your pace and distance every ten minutes. Even easier if the background music is my favorite, high performance rock. Really cool. At the very end I even heard the Lance Armstrong voice tell me something like "Congrats, this is your personal record"... was it real or some post-training hysteria?

Bad side... I'm having some annoyance because of bleeding nipples... something I tried to recover with Vaseline and some 80 lengths freestyle swim I made this morning.

On the tech side, a couple notes:

- The sync process with iTunes and the Nike site worked like a charm, and at the first attempt, really a no-brainer.

- I modified the standard iPod armband to fit the Nike dongle. Maybe I'll manage to acquire a proper iPod/Nike armband later, but the mod is working, at least for now. I just performed a tight cut on the bottom of the iPod holder, about 2,5 centimeters, as you can see in the picture. It seems to hold up the 'pod correctly, and the phone jack should help in preventing the device from slipping.

Tomorrow will be another running day, let's see if the configuration is still working.