I have been using my friend's Nike Speed and Distance Monitor for the past week and it's worked really well in telling me my speed and distance on my runs. But when I went on my run today the mileage counter stopped in the middle of my run and the light on the monitor attached to my laces wasn't on. It was raining pretty hard out so that might have been it. Anyone have the Nike SDM and had a similar problem? Any help would be appreciated as it's not mine and feel guilty about breaking it.
The battery in the monitor is dead...replace and all will be fine. I run in the rain all the time with mine.....no problem...but I hate it when the battery dies when I'm out running.
It's been my experience that, except for their shoes, the quality of most Nike products is marginal. I've had several Nike running shorts and singlets that literally fell apart after a couple of washings. I bought one of the early Triax watches without really checking it out first, only to find that the software was apparently designed by a non-runner. No display of current split, splits that come out of memory in reverse order, crap like that. Any 46:00 10K runner could have worked out with this watch once and given them ten things to change. Nike is the Microsoft of athletic companies-- they're selling name and hype and the quality of product just isn't there.
Too much chlorine can eat up your clothing.
Hey, great tip. Thanks very much.
only wash running clothes on delicate cycle, and drip dry. do not use fabric softener.
Nike's Timing equipment is generally designed quite well actually. There is considerable input gathered from athletes in all range of abilities prior to design. They, however, do have quite a large number of models with some variation in the displays. The Triax 300 series shows the running current split below the larger total elapsed time display, and reviews the splits in the "data" mode starting with split #1.
There are other variations in other models as well.
I've had many sets of Nike shorts and singlets over the past 15 or so years and I've found them to be extremely durable, and this is machine washing them on regular cycle. I don't know where you're getting your stuff, but maybe you aren't taking care of it properly.
I agree on the thing with the watch splits, because you do have to retrieve them in reverse order.
Nike also makes the only pair of sunglasses that I've ever been able to run in that didn't give me a headache (Airelon).
P.S. And don't think that I work for Nike (or ever have)based on my log in name.