[LRUG] Invitation to join a Nike+ challenge: Run 100 miles in 10 months

[Tom Ward]

On 2/25/08, James Darling <james at abscond.org> wrote:
> > James Adam, Jon Lim and myself all jog with Nike+ kits to try and keep
>  > fit.  To try and motivate ourselves to keep going, we're setting up a
>  > (pretty easy) challenge: run 100 miles in 10 months, starting on the
>  > 1st March and ending the 31st December.
>
>
> I'd love to join, I'd fail, but taking part would be the fun.
>  My history with nike+ didn't work out though.
>  I used it a long time ago, ran 30 mins, coded http://abscond.org/run/show/1
>   in about an hour, then lost the white nike+ bit.
>  I then got given a new nike+ kit for Christmas, but lost my nano a few
>  days later. And it doesn't work with my iPhone. which is rubbish. So I
>  gave up trying to be clever and just run occasionally. So I can't join
>  in to make you all look good, unfortunately.
>
>  But yes, if you want to loosely relate this to ruby, then I can send
>  you over the code I wrote when very new to this programming lark that
>  reads the XML stuff and does other stuff with it.

That'd be great, James.  I think Nike/Apple do a little more smoothing
when they plot their data.  Either that or you have a very unique
running style.

Tom