Thursday, August 1, 2013

Hal Higdon and Nike+ have gamified my running.

I don't even really know anything about Hal Higdon other than he once built a bunch of training regimens for Marathons and the like.  I've been using one of his for a while, and I built a spreadsheet to track all my runs.  It's been really fun. I tag each run as "green" - meaning I ran at least as far as I was supposed to - "yellow" for not quite as far as I was supposed to - and "red" for missing a run altogether. 

Add to this the fact that Nike+Running and my Nike+FuelBand ke it necessary for me to keep running to earn achievements, badges, etc.  I guess this has become my new addiction. 

I gave up so many addictions last year - I guess I needed a new one.  And this one really isn't that bad - I hope.  we'll see, after I run the Portland Marathon on October 6th. 


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