August 22nd, 2008 by Missy

Yep, that’s me — I am the proud owner of a one-track mind. I’m not even sure that women are capable of having one-track minds. I’m pretty certain that our minds just multi-task naturally. Perhaps I should call myself “male minded”, then?

In any case, I picked up the Nike+ insert for my shoe today, as well as an armband. The armband has actually been returned already (I wore it for about twenty minutes sitting at my desk and my hand started to feel clammy and I got dizzy when I stood up), and I’ve ordered a belt from Amazon. Hopefully that will arrive soon, as I’m sure it will be annoying to run without any convenient way to carry my iPod. I imagine that until the belt arrives, I’ll just put the sensor in my shoe and let Dan carry the iPod and I won’t bother listening to any music.

I popped the sensor into my shoe today, actually, and took a five minute stroll around the kitchen (no one to watch Alex so that I could go for anything resembling a run =/) to see how it all worked. You can actually see a little readout of my “workout” on the right side of the screen. It’s pretty cool, although I will say that the road to Nike Plusness has been paved with peril. It took Dan quite a while to get the website tracker thingee working due to some unknown (to me) error and, additionally, the iPod and Nike+ didn’t really feel like playing well together. After getting everything hooked up (which was very easy, just plug and play), iTunes decided that it didn’t want to talk to nikeplus.com and kept throwing errors which spontaneously fixed themselves after about my 500th try. Also, once I recorded a run on my nano iTunes ceased to recognize it when I plugged it in to my computer. Finally I just got fed up and rebooted and it seemed to fix the problem, although I have no idea why (since I definitely rebooted after patching iTunes and my iPod last night).

In any case, I am really looking forward to getting a chance to go for a jog tomorrow (I won’t call it a run, since what I do is definitely too slow to be classified as running). Hopefully my parents will be up for watching the kids so that we can actually log a few miles. I wish I had a babysitter =/