I thought I would occasionaly post about the gear I'm using throughout my training. There isn't a lot of gear required for running but it's amazing how many gadgets you can amass when you get into it.
Yesterday's post included a couple of videos that I shot on my iPod Nano. One of them is upside down because I'm new to using the video function, so I'll try to go back and fix it if I can.
Here's a pic of my iPod:
I'm pretty sure it's the 4th generation iPod Nano. I don't have a ton of music on it, but I downloaded some songs to run to (including a lot of music from Rocky) and I enjoy listening to podcasts. It also has a video camera built into it. The quality is surprisingly good for the size of the Nano, but I rarely use it to shoot video. I'm having fun playing with it for the blog though.
I bought an arm band by Griffin for use on my runs and I have a pair of wrap-around headphones that stay in place pretty well. The arm band is comfortable and unintrusive. It holds the iPod in a plastic case that keeps it from getting scratched and keeps most of my sweat off of it. I run the headphones chord up my back and mostly forget about it during a run.
Sometimes it's nice to zone out to music on a long run and sometimes I'll play the faster-paced playlist when I need a little up-tempo inspiration. I'm a fan of the Two Gomers podcast (http://www.twogomers.com/) and a movie podcast from http://www.slashfilm.com/. The Gomers talk about their adventures in running and the Slashfilmcast talks about movies. Between the two, I have plenty of materieal to entertain myself on really long runs.
I don't always take my iPod on a run, but it's a great gadget when I want something to listen to.
Tuesday
Goal For The Day: Rest
Distance: 0.00 Miles.
Notes: I originally had 4 Miles on the schedule for today but a day off is probably a better idea with the race coming up. I'll do my regularly scheduled speedwork tomorrow and my scheduled 4 Miles Thursday. I'll cut back on my speedwork Friday and rest on Saturday. Then Sunday is the big day!
Daily Miles: 0.00 Miles.
Blog Totals:
Run - 67.11 Miles.
Bike - 42.51 Miles.
Swim - 2,700+ meters.
I'm pretty sure yours is the 5th generation. Mine is a 4th and it doesn't do any cool stuff. By the way, I like your new font :).
ReplyDeleteI think you're right. My bad. One day, I'll look back on this post and laugh about how I used to have to carry my music with me instead of just downloading it straight to my brain!
ReplyDeleteI use my 'droid phone with mapmyrun to log my runs, and when I first started training for my half last year, I would listen to mp3's from it as well. I loaded up a big playlist of up-tempo songs that I loved. And then one day, I left my headphones at work and so I went out without the music. And I didn't miss it, not one bit. To the point that I haven't put the headphones in for a single run since that day. I'm not sure why--if it was up to me I'd listen to music pretty much all day. For some reason, not so much on the runs.
ReplyDeleteOf course, I try to avoid treadmills like the plague (way too tedious for my short attention span), so if I had to climb on one of those, I wouldn't go near it with a 10-and-a-half-foot pole without an mp3 player. Tho i've thought about putting digital copies of tv shows/movies on my phone to watch while on the treadmill...that might work.