Nike + iPod. I love it. I hate it.

I’ve been using the Nike+ kit with my iPod nano for a month or so now and I have this love/hate relationship going on with it. For the most part I love it. It keeps track of the distance, time, and average pace of my runs. I can listen to my music and any time I hit the center button - which is easy to find with the Nike armband - I hear my stats in my ear. When I come home I upload the info via iTunes - again, very easy to do - and the Nike+ site graphs my run and compares it to previous runs.

The best part is that I can participate in challenges with other Nike+ users which motivate me to run more frequently and further. This is one great product, especially considering it only costs $30.

Last week I used my nano just like always and everything was fine. When I came home and tried to upload the data, there was nothing on my nano. My last 3 runs, which I hadn’t yet uploaded, had disappeared, along with my music. I called Apple support & even took it into the Apple store but nothing could be retrieved. I’ve spent several hours over the past few days trying to get more music onto my nano. It poses a problem that we use iTunes on 3 different computers, and they don’t all have the same operating system.

I’ve lost some of the songs I loved and can’t access them in iTunes unless I pay again. But I have some music on there now, and I was able to get out and run again today.

I’ve never been a runner. I’ve always wished I was, but I have always hated running. This time around I kind of like it, and that’s pretty exciting.