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Ever since NikeID started 10 years ago, I’d always fancied giving this a whirl. I finally treated myself:

The base shoe is a NikeFree 5.0 v4 running shoe.

UPDATE: Do you also need those special Nike Trainers? NO, see below.

I got the latest product from Apple and Nike yesterday on the way home from work. I do a bit of running and use a Heart rate monitor but the having a pedometer is much easier for pace setting. I did a quick 2.5 mile run this morning and I love this thing already. Just plug it into your ipod and press go, and you’re off!

You can choose your distance or run free and once you start your run you get feedback straight away from either a male or female voice. Once I had finished my run I just plugged in the ipod and itunes asked if I wanted to sync with the Nike site. The photo you see above is the result. As you can see I overcooked my run a bit and petered off at the end. As time goes on it will be intersting to see if my running improves.

UPDATE One thing I forgot to say was that I don’t own and did not want a pair of those special Nike trainers that have the hole in the sole for you to stick your pedometer in. I just used my normal running shoes and manged to fit the pedemeter to them with a bit of persuading

Nike and Apple have collaborated with a bunch of running products. The coolest of which is the a pedometer / ipod combo.

You stick the sensor on your running shoe as per a normal pedometer. The cool bit is that you plug in the receiver to your ipod and you get a hole load of functionality. It not only gives you all the normal stuff, pace, distance covered etc, but it will also speak it to you through your headphones to save you averting your concentration from the road. And the piece-da-residence allowing you to upload this information onto the nikeplus website to keep track of your running program.

The problem is, we’ll have to wait until July 13th to get hold of this stuff. Never has the anticipation of just running been so great.