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Originally Posted by TimSJ
anyone have any experience using the nike+ the wife is a runner and thought she might like this.. but wondering if it is worth getting.
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My wife really enjoys it. Basically you just buy the shoe and the transmitter. Technically I don't see why you couldn't just take an existing shoe and jimmy yourself up some sort of pocket (the nike+ shoes are only really different in that they have a pocket to hold the transmitter.) The transmitter will come with a receiver that fits into the ipod ... this receiver will not be necessary for the nano/touch/phone (old stubby nano only).
From there the process is really easy and kinda cool. After you're done your workout you send the info to itunes and it records everything. It'll tell you how far you went, how long you went for and how fast you travelled. You can view these stats on a per-run basis or as an overall.
there's other things that were pretty interesting. You could join "groups" if you wanted. If you have friends using it you can set up little competitions. For instance, you can set up a competition for the month of September. You can periodically check in and you'll see how far your friends have run and it will graph you all so you can keep up with their progress. If you don't have anybody to run with you can join other groups. My wife's friends didn't use it, so she joined the "flame fans vs. canuck fans" group. Pick a side and run for team glory!
I thought it was interesting how while running and listening to your tunes it'll chime in with important notes such as "you've half way to your goal today" or "Congratulations, you've just had your longest run yet". That last one was cool because it was delivered by Lance Armstrong lol.
The only complaint I heard was that there's no way to differentiate between walking and running, so if you want include the walks you go on in addition to the runs, it'll affect your average speed stat. It's tough to see if you're getting faster or slower without that stat being accurate.
Edit: and yes HotHotHeat is correct in that the touches dropped by $100 each.