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I never muched liked running more than 100 yards and was always dumbfounded by distance runners. They must be super-heroes or from a different planet I thought! I'm certainly no distance runner - yet, but as you may have guessed from recent posts, I'm taken with the Nike+ add-on for iPod Nano. At $30 (USD), it a real deal; especially if it keeps my body fat in check, endorphins pumping, helps lower my resting heart rate and keeps most of my health care dollars away from Big Pharma! (having an HSA, health savings account, has turned me into a conscious consumer).
The one thing the iPod+Nike setup does NOT help with - at least directly - is lacing up my running sneaks and getting out the door for what I know is going to be a tough run. That's where NikePlus.com comes in with friendly competition between buddies or total strangers (see nikeplus forums for scads of open competitions).
As you can see, no one besides Alisha (competition organizer) is exactly setting the world on fire but just knowing that I'm logging runs and miles against this challenge is doing loads for my motivation. I've not another "pre-Turkey 15 mile" goal going with my wife. She said that was pretty sneaky of me suggesting I was making her run.
I plan for my next distance addition to be 3 miles which will get me in order for some remaining fall 5K runs in north Texas. If you post a challenge let me know.
