You know how I was all excited about the Nike
Running chip and was super psyched about how great it is when you’re
away from a data zone and still want to track your runs? Well, that
just totally blew up in my face when, on a second trip
to Cuba last week, the chip refused to work. My phone wouldn't recognize it, and no matter how much I paced around the pool trying to activate the sensor (I'm sure everyone enjoyed that), it just wouldn't work, so I was:
After collecting myself, I decided
to go running anyway and to just stop when I felt sick. I turned on my
regular Nike Running app just to see what would happen and GUESS
WHAT…it tracks your runs without GPS! What is
this thing??? I have downloaded a unicorn.
Just in case I couldn't prove my super respectable dedication later, I took some pictures
along the way each time I ran. I
won’t lie, it wasn’t pretty because as it turns out, running in a tropical location
isn’t easy: it’s always, always, always hot.
It’s hot at sunrise, hot at sunset, hot at night. The hot air seemed
to compress my lungs and I felt like the temperature was pressing down
on me as I ran. On my last planned running day, I defiantly hit up the
gym to run on a treadmill. That’s how I roll.
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So, lessons learned on this trip:
1. Nike Running app works without GPS !!!! (woohoo, I say, at kilometer number seven:)
2. Be careful not to overexert yourself (I felt
extremely sick one day after running just 5K which, back home, is a very
easy run for me)(taking a photo of yourself is a very good excuse to take a long break, by the way...)
...and stunning things like this:
4. Running on the beach means you can also jump in the water to cool off. Just wear your bathing suit under your sweats :)
Are you talking about Map My Run?
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