Sunday 20th April
My running life’s been revolutionized. Last week I bought a Nike+ SportBand. It tracks distance, time, pace and calories burned. It’s absolutely incredible and really easy to use, even for a confirmed technophobe like me.
It works via a sensor in your shoe that sends out a signal with every step you take. That communicates with a band on your wrist which holds a UBS key. Once you’ve finished the run you unplug the USB key from the watch strap, plug it in to the computer and it uploads your runs to a website, plotting them on a pace graph.
I’m quite a new user but I’m very excited about it. On the Nike+ website you can look back over every single run you’ve done, check out the stats, benchmark yourself against other runners and download free running plans to get ready for different races.
I paid £48 for mine at London City Runner, which is on Ludgate Broadway near Ludgate Circus in the city. It was £40 for the Nike+ set which contain the band, the USB key and the shoe chip and then a further £8 for a shoe wallet which attaches to your shoe and holds the chip because I don’t have Nike running shoes.
www.londoncityrunner.com
www.nikeplus.com
2 comments:
Cool gadget geekzoid!
Have you ever tried the Nike+ iPod thingy along similar lines? It talks to you on the way round telling you how many miles you've done and even has Lance Armstrong built in to give you a congratulatory message at the end of your run!
No - that's the other product that Nike do, it's a music thing with a power track but it doesn't have the same functionality as this sportsband in terms of recording your stats! Plus Lance might be more than a little offputting...
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