educate me... nike +

baza1976

Hi,

Can someone explain to me how it works.... I got me some new runners today, nike+ pegasus (sp).. I've been told i can get a "pod" that will go into the sole of my shoe (is it already in there???)... I don't have an Ipod and don;t really want one... but I have agin been told i can get a strappy thingy!!!!

Has anyone here had some experence with this?? is it good, what does it cost and so on...

thanks

Krusty_Clown

The sole of the shoe has a cut-out in which you can insert a Nike+ pod. This is essentially a pedometer that transmits wirelessly to a receiver, which can be either a plug-in accessory into an iPod Nano, or else a seperate wristband based receiver (Nike+ Sportsband) that doesn't require an iPod. You can then connect the receiver to iTunes to upload your run data.

Being based on a pedometer, it can be wildly inaccurate if you run at a different pace to the one you used to calibrate it. I had one for a while, but when it was out by almost 10k over a 20 mile run I ditched it and saved up for a Garmin Forerunner.

Seres

Krusty_Clown wrote: »

The sole of the shoe has a cut-out in which you can insert a Nike+ pod. This is essentially a pedometer that transmits wirelessly to a receiver, which can be either a plug-in accessory into an iPod Nano, or else a seperate wristband based receiver (Nike+ Sportsband) that doesn't require an iPod. You can then connect the receiver to iTunes to upload your run data.

Being based on a pedometer, it can be wildly inaccurate if you run at a different pace to the one you used to calibrate it. I had one for a while, but when it was out by almost 10k over a 20 mile run I ditched it and saved up for a Garmin Forerunner.

i found mine very incurrate too , for an out and back run it measured a different distances ?! , also if you want to calibrate it you are suppose to run/walk a distance at even speed to have a workout to use for the calibration , every time i did this the software said that there were no workouts suitable for calibration , not normally good with these sort of things but the OH is , and when he tried it , it didnt work either .
oh yeah that was the replacement nike+ wristband i had too , the first one didnt work , waste of €60!

Paperripper

I didn't have a very good experience with it either. It was extremely inaccurate, even after calibrating, and as it wasn't even consistent in its inaccuracy, it was pretty much useless.

Plus, the battery of the sensor died after about three months, which gave me no other option but to buy a new one. I bought a cheap stopwatch for less than that instead. Paired with http://www.mapmyrun.com, this is a much more accurate way of measuring time and distance.

baza1976

thanks everyone, yer advice says it all.
I think I'll stick with the stopwatch,

Thanks again

mloc123

I used one up untill I bought a pair of Adidas a month ago...

I found it very good once you calibrate it every so often on a threadmill. Used it in quite a few races and the 1k intervals were always with a couple of metres of the course markings. If you have the runners and a nano its worth €30 IMO.

DangerMouse27

I got one and found it inaccurate and then i gave my brother one for his birthday and he said the same..loved Paula Radcliffe telling me how many miles i was doing...mmmmmm

TheTubes

Im on my second one and think its great.
I've done over 300 miles in it.
I never actually callibrated it, i just assumed it was set to a default that would suit me as i'm average height, etc.

any time ive checked the distance it seems reliable, longest was a 10 mile race an im pretty sure it was within .5 of a mile which i was quite happy with.

its not a garmin forerunner but it beats a stopwatch imo.

and even if it the distance is bound to be consistent, i.e. if it says i run 3 miles today and it says i run 6 miles tomorrow then im obviously building up my distance, which i find hard to judge without it,
same goes for pace, it may not be exact but when i run faster it says im running faster so when it says im running slower i trust it and i pick up the pace.

sorry for the rushed post, on the way out the door.

oh, and ive never had nike+ runners, used to have pegasus but found them too soft.
have had the pod stuck to the front of my last couple of pairs of kayanos using a lacelid.

shanagarry

I've been using Nike+ with a sportsband for the last six weeks and I find it brilliant. I use mapmyrun for planning all my long runs and the distance covered according to the Nike+ has always been very close to what I was expecting. Two weeks ago I did a 16km with two friends and we had a Polar, Garmin and Nike+ between us and they were all within 200m of each other at the end. I've never actually calibrated mine. I was planning to, but it seems fine without doing it so I never bothered.

So in my experience it's a brilliant low cost option.

K09

do I really need the nike runners??? I have a pretty decent pair of asics!

also has the reliability improved at all?

Thanks.

TheTubes

imo it depends on whatever suits the individual.
i used to wear nike pegasus but found them too soft, im now on my 3rd pair of asics kayano and wouldnt wear anything else.
its whatever shoe suits.

you can still use nike+ with asics, i do.
i use a lace lid from lacelid.com and there are others that make similar things.

menoscemo

Oh the dreaded nike+. It's the reason I got my Garmin.

thirstywork

From what i know the pod that inserts into the runner works on compression crystals so if using a shoe wallet it wont be very accurate.
price point is good but alot of them are returned faulty due to poor reading on the display and also don't wear them in the shower cause it will destroy it.
I think a bad shower will kill it also:eek:

K09

OK. So what would you recommend to use for tracking my speed, times, distance run, etc?
I would like to track my speeds and distance covered in soccer matches and in my training (jogging, sprinting, etc.)

Thanks.

mdlb

have been using nike+ for ages now and it had been reassonably accurate (even went into the washing machine in a pocket and came out the other side none the worse!!!)
i had even been using it in a pair of sacony's whichhad a little pocket in the tongue....

it does need to be calibrated a lot though and for some reason it seems to be getting less accurate in the last few weeks.... may be time to retire it

TheTubes

thirstywork wrote: »

From what i know the pod that inserts into the runner works on compression crystals so if using a shoe wallet it wont be very accurate.
price point is good but alot of them are returned faulty due to poor reading on the display and also don't wear them in the shower cause it will destroy it.
I think a bad shower will kill it also:eek:

the pod is an accelerometer , so the shoe wallet works fine.
what are compression crystals? google couldn't even tell me!
im not sure what you mean by poor reading on the display, the kit uses the ipod display, unless you just mean they are returned due to poor reading?
You "think" a bad shower will kill it? based on what?
I'm on my second pod and have ran in very heavy rain and through puddles over the last few years and the rain has had no effect on it, its well sealed.