My Nike + Challenge and Goal

Posted by Joshua on Sep 28, 2008 * Add comments
Categories: Fitness

As a developer I mostly sit on my butt and do absolutely nothing but type, move my arms and occassionally get up to use the bathroom. I drink excessive amounts of coffee, energy drinks, candy, the works... typical developer right? Well i cant speak for us all, but I can definitely speak for myself. At one time I was actually extremely active in gymastics during college, played basketball, ran alot, worked out in the gym. Typical college stuff that I grew accustomed to when I was unemployed and the most important thing in my life was having fun and making sure my homework was done.

Now that I am pushing 31, life has changed quite a bit. I work, eat and sleep. Sometimes I just work and sleep forgetting to do the eating part (probably due to the execessive amounts of caffeine). I decided that this is a one way ticket to cancer, diabetes, heart disease, etc.. and turned over a new leaf about 2 weeks ago. I started swimming and doing strength training, but I really wanted to start running. Funny thing happened was I was checking out the Degrafa website and saw the chart examples Joe Johnston did mimicing Nike+ charts. I was curious and went to Nike+ and realized they made shoes that could communicate to your iPod Touch or Nano. Being the tech savy dork I am, I went out and bought a pair of shoes this afternoon, got the Nike+ iPod Kit, bought some Nike DryFit apparell and ran my first 2.33 miles. Unfortunately, being the tech savy dork I am I forgot to turn on the workout option on my iPod before I started running and it only captured .85 miles of my workout... doohhhh!!!

Anyway, so I created one goal and one challenge, both are pretty much the same. I set a goal to run 50 miles in 4 weeks and I also setup a challenge for anyone who wants to join me to run 50 miles in 4 weeks or less. The person who runs 50 miles first, wins. You get nothing of course, except a virtual trophy and my personal congratulations via this blog!

So what are you waiting for!! Go get some cool shoes, the kit and lets go run! The Nike+ site has some really cool features where you can set goals for yourself, enter challenges that other people have created and a lot of other neat ideas all crammed into their site, which is running via Flash 9 :)




6 responses to “My Nike + Challenge and Goal”


  1. ike on  Sep 28, 2008 at 5:52 PM

    ike Dude! If I ran almost 2 miles per day right now, I think I'd collapse and have to be taken to the ER mid-way through the first day. :P Interesting bit of trivia, some years ago I actually washed out of the Navy, and at the time I could keep up... but not now... holy cow! And I'm only a couple years ahead of you... But I'd have to work up to something like that.

  2. Josh on  Sep 28, 2008 at 5:57 PM

    Josh Ya, 2.5 miles is about my limit right now until i can build up some endurance, I overheard a friend of mine talk about running 6-10 miles a day...... I figure if I can get in 12-15 miles a week I will be doing just fine :)

  3. Bob on  Sep 29, 2008 at 4:46 AM

    Bob I started working on a ColdFusion component to access the Nike+ data... I can share if you are interested...

  4. Josh on  Sep 29, 2008 at 6:59 AM

    Josh @Bob, heck ya I was just thinking about taking what Joe started and making it an AIR app. I may not need a CF component but would definitely like to see it. Send an email via my contact page and I will respond with my email or you can just post the link here. Up to you.

    Thanks!
    Josh

  5. Freda on  Sep 12, 2009 at 2:58 AM

    Freda Sorry. U know guys I just want to say hello :) Keep in touch ;). Help me! Looking for sites on: Gant chart ppt. I found only this - <a href="http://knowledge.uneca.org/Members/Gantchart/excell-gant-chart">excell gant chart</a>. The violation of the time consequently assisted on the 24 release american gordon, army gant chart. wind turbine construction gant chart. Best regards ;-), Freda from Malaysia.

  6. edward on  Dec 15, 2009 at 12:07 AM

    edward oh, how I understand you!!! used to feel great before, but with the course of time you come to realize that you feel and look not so fresh like before. got especially bothered after reading a very impressive article about the consequences of work with low physical activity after 30 downloaded by http://www.picktorrent.com search engine. now try to get used to jogging every morning, but it's so hard...(

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