So I have been thinking about starting running recently. This summer the Wellness team at Apple is sponsoring a “Cardio challenge” at work, where people that walk or run a certain distance within certain dates will win T-shirts. Now a T-shirt isn’t that much motivation, but why not use it as a reason to go out and get that new pair of running shoes that I was looking at, and start running anyway.

So now I have:

• New Nike Everydays with a Nike + iPod sensor
• My iPod nano from last year
• Stuart — My dog who loves to run
• The Apple Fitness center cardio machines all support Nike+ so my workouts will count
• An account on nikeplus.com to track all of my progess, I can even map my runs on google maps.

And yesterday was my first run. If you notice in the right hand nav bar, there is a little cartoon version of me that has my running statistics. As of today it shows 1 run, and a little over a mile. Let’s see what it shows by the time you read this.