Archive for the ‘running’ Category

Use Garmin Connect to Track & Visualize Run Data

Sunday, May 31st, 2009

I was psyched to read this blog post a few days ago: Garmin Connect welcomes all Garmin fitness devices. I'd been waiting for that news for nearly a year -- ever since deciding to save some money by purchasing the older Garmin Forerunner 305 vs. the newer 405. I already had ...

Garmin Forerunner 305

Thursday, July 10th, 2008

I started running this year and bought an iPod with Nike+ early on to track my mileage. I had some initial frustration with it, subsequently learned how to hack it to recover my run data, but for the most part, really love it. Then I became a bit more serious ...

Marathon Timing Technology & Networking with LinkedIn

Tuesday, April 29th, 2008

This past weekend my wife and I, along with a group of six close friends, headed south to Nashville, TN, where four of us ran in the Country Music 1/2 Marathon. It was my first 1/2 marathon and I beat my personal goal by a solid 6 seconds, clocking ...

How to Hack Your Nano / Nike+ Run Data When iPod Freezes

Sunday, March 2nd, 2008

Today was my weekly Team in Training run -- I'm training for and planning to run a marathon to raise money for blood cancer research -- and 6.61 miles into the run, my iPod Nano froze on me for the first time in the month that I've had it (yes, ...

Use Your iPod Nano & Nike+ to Track Mileage

Monday, February 25th, 2008

You've probably seen the commercial. You may even know someone who runs. But you probably wonder: Does that whole iPod and Nike+ thing really work? Oh yes. And it's even better than you might think. I started running in late December 2007 when a group of friends decided to run ...