No Run for Two Weeks, I'm Sick

I got a flu from my little Pierre, actually, both my wife and me got a flu from Pierre. It was hard the last week but now we are feeling much better, I think I'll be able to run this weekend. :D

20th Run, Juan Les Pins.

Wednesday was rainy again. I guess I need to be more reactive to the weather so run once during the weekdays whenever there is no rain. Also, it's getting even colder these days, it's not easy to convince myself to go out for a run.

Fortunately today is really nice, but when I went out today for my run, it was a bit late and the sun was going down the hill so I decided to run only 5kilo this time, instead of a regular 10kilo.

Right in the middle of the run, I heard some applause from my iPhone, it also pops up a small window saying that my friend Peter just put a comment to my run posted by Nike+ GPS when I started. That is the first time I got the middle run cheers and I feel really happy. Many thanks to Peter, however, I wasn't able to run faster even with his cheers :S

Here is the result.

10 Kilo De Grasse, Results

Today I received a special version of a local newspaper "Nice-Matin". It's a special version about the running competition took place at Grasse last Sunday.

And inside, there are the official results with ranking. So here is mine:

51'32'' ranking: 931/1479

I'm surprised :D

19th Run, Cap d'Antibes, Test Nike+ GPS 2.2

It's an incredibly nice day today, and it will rain tomorrow, so I decided to run today instead of Sunday. It rained this Wednesday so I didn't run that day and this made me feel energetic in this run.

Here is the result.

Also this is the first test of Nike+ GPS 2.2 that has been released the first December, it is announced as a bug fix release. 

Well a dedicated bug fix release  usually means the bugs are really serious :D Maybe it's about the "Last Kilo Problem" I had for my last several runs? 

The result seems quite positive, the map is shown correctly this time, so that the "Last kilo problem" seems to have been fixed, but how knows? I'm still looking forward to the next run to confirm. 

Are you also using Nike+ GPS? So go to app store and update and test it :D

18th Run, Grasse

Yes! It's today the competition "10kilo de Grasse" I've registered weeks ago.

The dark side is that it's a rainy and cold day and my new shirt with long sleeves that my wife bought weeks ago is not delivered yet so I have to run with my bare arms wet.

But the light side is that my friend Jerome lives there and he helped me a lot and was there supporting me together with my wife and my little Pierre. Also, the road is quite flat even though Grasse is a town in the mountain area. Also again, Grasse is a beautiful town who is famous of it's perfume. Running there shall be enjoying even in the rain.

Not a lot to say about the run, just one thing that impressed me quite a lot, it's cold with the rain, but when waiting to start, I didn't feel the cold at all, because, look at the photo below, we are packed.

Here is my number, somebody has his or her name on it, but I don't, not sure how they did it.

During the run, I kept my rhythm quite well and finally, I made it in 50'50 according to my Nike+ GPS which recorded 9.87 kilo. The official result will come soon.

Unfortunately, there is always a problem with the last part of the run which is not correctly shown on the map. I doubt there is a bug somewhere, either the Nike+ GPS, either the Google map. As it's always the last part of the run that can not be correctly shown which is about 1 kilo, I'd like to name it as "the last kilo bug". (I'm a programmer, I usually number bugs but sometimes I name bugs too. :D )

Finally, great thanks to my friend Jerome who is very hospitable and helped me a lot the whole day. Also great thanks to my wife and my little Pierre who were there supporting me in the cold rain.

17th Run, Sophia Antipolis

Fortunately it did not rain today, even though we had really thick black clouds over the head. We decided to go anyway, and this would be my last run before the Sunday's "10 kilo at Grasse".

5.6kilo non-stop in the mountain trail which was still wet and slippery. I felt good and ready for this Sunday.

16th Run, Cap d'Antibes Inversed

It has been another rainy weekend, however, fortunately, we had a short period of two hours clear day in the Sunday afternoon, which is just my run time.My plan today was to run the Cap d'Antibes, unlike usually I take counter clockwise circle, today, I'd like to do a clockwise run. Well, clockwise or counter clockwise, it does not make a lot of differences if the the route is flat, but it's not the case here so I'd like to give it a try.

Also, I'd like to test the new Nike+ GPS v2.1 functionalities. However, I had several problems in this run. First of all, the tracking data seems incomplete, I ran 11kilo and Nike+ GPS reported this correctly but the route is not correctly shown on the map which is powered by Google. Not sure where has been going wrong. In the snapshot below we can see that the kilometer marks are correctly placed but the run ends at about 7 kilos which is marked in the finish point information as 11kilos. The actual finish point is 4kilos later though.

This reminded me last time I had the similar problem, I accelerated a lot for the last 600 meters that time and Nike+ was unable to collect the right data. I did accelerated for the last part this run because it's all the way down the hill!

Conclusion, I shouldn't run too fast with my Nike+ GPS otherwise it won't be able to track my run data.

OK, now the new functionality, as claimed on the upgrade page, post to Facebook is enhanced, let's see what's that enhancement.

After I finished the run, there is alway the button lets me to share this run, and I tapped on it and now something is different, I'm able to give a summary of  the run now. Like this:

That's better, let's say, "I feel much better now!" :D Then here is what has been posted on Facebook.

Well again, I did that twice because the first time Nike+ GPS just crashed and I was brought back to the springboard, I had to restart the application and share the run again.

Anyway, I achieved my fastest 10k today, it took me 55'36. Contributed today 11+1 kilos (I ran another short 1kilo to go back home faster :D ) to the PACA, always at the third place.

Also contributed to Run Back To Beijing 12kilo, now I have achieved 130kilos in total.