Week 2 With Nike+ SportWatch GPS

Having this watch for a second week, I have come to appreciate the simplicity of this device as a distance tool and run recorder. I wear the watch as a timepiece as well which brings some comments from both runners and non-runners alike.

Life got in the way of many of my runs over the week, but that’s just life . Today I went on my first run in a new place, and the watch performed like a champ. I had no worries about going to long and missing breakfast with my wife, heart rate was nails and another run was recorded.

This run was a quite nice up and back on the Saratoga Lake. It was a beautiful scene with a light mist above  the water and perfect running temperature. I I’m sorry there’s no picture, my cell phone was dead this morning, but please take my word for it.

The one disappointing aspect of the logging of the runs is that Nike+ no longer syncs with the Nike Training Log. I have been using the Nike Training Log site to record my runs since I started running. I use this log for 2 reasons: 1. My running partner told me I needed to log my runs and 2: the Nike Training Log provides a place to record many aspects of your run and as an early adopter of the Nike+ system years ago, after some writing into the Nike+ forums, there was automatic integration of your Nike+ data into your Nike Training Log. I have ~5years of running data in the Nike+ Training Log, and it’s fun and or educational to refer back to certain moments in time  for training purposes. We will see how this plays out, I hope to get the integration to the Training Log again, for now I am still doing manual entries (I’m back on the forums again , we’ll see what happens).

Until next week.