Confirmed, Empty Map Problem is Temporary

I tried to display my pace of the last run I have, now everything goes perfect. So I can conclude that the empty map is just temporary caused by unknown reason.

 

11th Run, Sophia Antipolis, First Test of Nike+ GPS 2.0.1

 

Again, it’s an ideal day to run, but what excited me more is I’m going to see what’s new in the Nike+ GPS 2.0.1.

I started a new workout then at once, I noticed that there is another option in the “Run Setup” page. That is the “Get Cheers” option.

With a facebook icon, I immediately guess what this option does, probably it will sent a post to facebook saying I’m starting a new run so friends will know… OK, anyway, I turned it on then go on running.

And when I came back and open my facebook, guess what, I had two post there already. One is when I started the run and the other is when the run ended. Here is what I got for the start:

As we can see, “Comment of Like to send me some mid-run cheers”, well, nobody just commented or liked this post during I’m running, but it seems that if somebody every did that, I’ll get a kind of notice on my iPhone when I was running. It could be wonderful if it really works this way.

On the contrary, I don’t like very much the post at the end, mainly because the link brings you to the NIke+ main page instead of my run page as before.

Here is the old automatic post with a link to the run page:

Then, there is nothing special to say about the run itself. What surprised me is when I tried to see the route info as usual, I got an empty map. This really disappointed me. I hope this is just a temporary problem instead of a bug in 2.0.1.

An the same when I looked at the Pace page. BTW, I liked the way the pace is displayed with colors that shows you directly where I was fast and where I was slow. And this feature is not available on the website, so I really hope the empty map problem get fixed as soon as possible.

 

Summary,

Pros:
the “Get Cheers” during the run is pretty interesting, still to see how exactly it works.

Cons:
Run finished post on facebook does not have link to the run page, less informative.
Route info shows empty maps, to see if the problem persists.

Nike+ GPS, what's new in the latest 2.0.1 release?

The latest version of Nike+ GPS was released the 19 Oct. One interesting to mention in this new release is that you can share your activity directly from the application. Here I'll show you how to do it. 
First you need to upgrade your current Nike+ GPS 1.0.1 to 2.0.1. Just go to AppStore and search Nike+ GPS.

Tap on the search result will open the Nike+ GPS application page. For a user that already have Nike+ GPS installed, the update is FREE (well, shown in the screen capture is GRATUT in French).

Tap on the button FREE/GRATUT then install the update.  Just enable your WIFI connection if you have it, this will make the download much faster, After the installation finishes, open the application and go to settings, you will see two settings one for facebook and the other for twitter.

Tap Connect facebook for example. You are asked to enter you facebook login and password, then again, for security reasons, you are asked to authorize Nike+ to access your facebook information. Once your Nike+ GPS is connected to your facebook, you can enable Auto-Share so that your activities are posted to facebook at real-time.

That’s cool, isn’t it!

However, what confused me a little is that we also have the same functionality on the nikerunning.nike.com website, if you logged into your account, you can setup to post your activities to facebook and twitter and it works pretty well for me now. So what happens if I also enable Auto-Share in Nike+ GPS, will I have my one activity posted twice on facebook? That is one thing to be tested tomorrow.

10th Run, Antibes - Golf-Juan

As the weather becomes cooler, the running also becomes more pleasant. Today, the weather forecast said that it should be rainy again as last Sunday, however, it turned out to be a pretty nice day, no rain at all with a comfortable temperature of 15°C.

I decided to make a tour to the Golf-Juan port, it's a nice place that I love very much. It's been a place that I run frequently during the summer but I haven't been there for quite a few weeks. The best thing about the Golf-Juan port is that it's located exactly 5 kilometers away so the round trip is the ideal 10 kilo.

I set off a little bit late than usual and kept a pace of 5:30 per kilo. It's quite a surprise that I did not feel difficulty until 4 kilo. On the way back, I can still run up to the hill which is the last part and normally I can't do that.

Here are the stats:

With today's run, I contributed to the CAPA region another 10 kilo.

9th Run, Sophia Antipolis

Wednesday routine run. Not quite ‘en form’ but as we ran with a moderate pace it’s still enjoying.

8th run, Antibes Fort Carré

It’s not the best day for a run, the wind is strong, a little bit cold, heavy cloud, but I don’t really care.

I set off with a normal speed this will warm me up faster, and after two kilo, I stopped feeling any cold even with the wind becoming really strong at the beach. The sea became violent also and I can feel the sea water brought by the wind.

Nobody was there on the beach, I can remember how many people were there enjoying the sunlight during the summer, compared to that, the beach is really deserted now. The coming winter is also confirmed by an old man at the beach, who was collecting the broken tree branches brought by the wave. With his small hand saw, he cut the branches into pieces and put them into his old car. That’s for his fireplace, I believe.

At six kilo, it started to rain, quite big drops, accelerated by the gravity and also by the strong wind, it hurts a bit when hitting me. That did not bother me, the only issue is I tried quite hard to protect my iPhone, the only cover it has is my hand. Fortunately, it survived and continued working.

Took a picture of the old Antibes with the heavy cloud.

Also found a funny building on the way in the old Antibes. Big blue snails.

The cost of the pictures is that I lost about 5 minutes record, I forgot to resume the Nike+ GPS workout after taking the first photo. So here are the stats.

Notice that the straight line at the second kilo is not true but the approximation is acceptable. However, the pace is funny and buggy as usual, here it is.

With this workout, I contributed another 9.5 kilo to the CAPA region in the competition, now we have only 3200 kilo to catch up the second place!

Finally, I was quite impressed that when I got home and logged in my facebook, I already saw my run published! Then I remembered that I enabled the “Share my Activity” at nikeplus.com, that’s really cool. I highly recommend you to activate that too.

Courir pour une fleur, the Followup

Got an email weeks ago from the organizer, with a nice bird view picture of the start point. Share with you.

 

If you are interested in the final result, here it is, in brief, man’s first is 31’06 and woman’s first is 38’. Twice faster than me…

http://www.le-sportif.com/exe/main_resultats_fiche.asp?resma_id=520&cafi=MINIMAILING

7th Run, Sophia Antipolis

We had a bad day this Sunday so I didn’t go running, as a result, I’ve been waiting for today’s run impatiently. Friends said they would like to come and run together, but unfortunately, none of them finally came. So I ran alone. 

With today’s 5.6km, I finished my 50th km and reached the orange level (what are the levels?) I’m quite happy :D

6th Run, Sophia Antipolis

Routine every week, friends rejoined me, fresh air, ideal temperature, that’s today’s run. The trail in the forest is quite slip after the heavy rain Monday, that is the only thing I needed to worry about.

We started with a moderate pace and stopped twice waiting for one of us and finally I accelerated a little at the end. However, Nike+ GPS seems unhappy with the final sprint, the pace graph contains a bug.

 

5th Run, Courir pour une Fleur 2010

Finally, it’s 3rd Oct, the big day to run for a flower!

Wife wants to take the baby and go with me to give me an extra support, that’s great!

We set off quite early and after 30 minutes’ walk, we were at the starting point, already many people there, some were jogging to warm up. I changed and did some warm up too then it’s time to kiss goodbye my wife and my little Pierre.

5 minutes before set off, I entered the starting section, it seemed that I was almost at the very end of the 200 meters of people! But no problem, I’m not running for the first prize :D

It’s a surprise that I met several friends there, great to know that they run also.

Finally, a great shout of thousands of people announced the start of the run! I tried to keep my pace and at the same time adapt to that of the others so I ran not too fast nor too slow.

The first three kilometers are just wonderful, along the beach, the sun was not too strong and there was no sweat. Although it was my slowest at the 2.5 Km, it’s just because we started to go up to the hill. After that, we went down from the hill for about another 2.5Km. This is the most wonderful part, we have the sea right before us and the road here is wide so we have large space between each and most important, there came the fresh wind from the sea! Really enjoyed this part.

After 7Km, we started to go up again, and that is really hard to keep the pace! Many people were along the road, smelling, yelling, encouraging the runners. then finally, at the top of the small hill, there is the arrival point 300 meters ahead, I didn’t sprint, I didn’t want to, rather, I started to look for my wife and my little Pierre! They were there right before the arrival! So happy at this point!

The result: 1h:00m:19s, ranking 1210, I felt wonderful, not tired at all, just as usual.

Yes, some statistics,

Ah, I almost forgot, the goal of the run, the flower, I got a red rose and of course, my wife deserves it. She was quite happy with it but my little Pierre just didn’t care much, he was dreaming at the moment.