it didn’t come with diplomatic immunity

The Nike+ Human Race is back on October 24. Time to join the biggest race and run with the human race. 

Philippines  is not part of the 30 cities where Nike will be hosting a race but but through nikeplus.com.ph, we can be part of it. I know it would be really nice if we are part of the official city but let’s be patient. Running is just booming here in the Philippines. Let’s rack up the miles and get noticed.

Last year, we ranked #19 with a total of 10, 706.7kms logged. Surely we can do better than that this year.

So how do you link up and run the human race?  Sign up at nikeplus.com.ph to participate. And since we don’t live in a race city we need to use Nike + iPod nano sport kit, iPod touch™, iPhone™ or Nike+ SportBand to track our kms on race day. Don’t forget to sync your race at  nikeplus.com.ph to have your results officially counted as part of the race. 

While you’re at it, join the Nike+ Human Race PH Ambassadors Challenge. 

Team Bananarunning needs you. Click here to sign up.  

Just in case you want to know, Nikeplus.com.ph runners that log less than 10K will be counted as participants but to be considered a finisher you must sync a workout of at least 10K. And before you start getting too smart …Don’t forget to calibrate!

CALIBRATE. RUN. SYNC

Ready to rack up your mileage? Great … but before you go out and record a run, don’t forget to calibrate.

Nike + iPod nano sport kit, iPod touch™, iPhone™ or Nike+ SportBand are training tools. It tells us our pace and distance. It gives you cues on when to run harder or ease up. Nice, di ba. Immediate feedback on how I am doing on when I run keep me going. I have lazy legs so I need constant feedback.  

The big BUT is … if you don’t calibrate, then just like a dull knife or unsharpened pencil, they are useless. A nice bracelet but the information you will likely get is just blahblah!

Now you probably want to know. Accurate ba? I asked the same question when I first used the Sportband. The manual recommends calibrating but says its fairly accurate off the box. I opted to calibrate.

I calibrated my SportBand when I ran at RotaRun. Uncalibrated, it registered the race distance at 22kms. Other runner/bloggers recorded a distance of 17.85K for that race. I calibrated the Sportband using their data. When I ran with it again GF405 registered 15K and Nike+ SportBand 15.1K. Pasado!

The secret to get accurate read outs is to run a longer distance when you calibrate. This is how I explained it to myself and it made sense to me. I hope it makes sense to you too. Let’s do a little bit of math (Math again?!), .9 and .99991 when rounded off to the nearest whole number are both equal to 1 diba. But .99991 is closer to 1 than .90000. So think of each km ran as a decimal place bring you closer to an accurate reading.

Lace up and run!