I’ve been trying to get back in shape by training for a 5K. It’s no piece of cake. When your idea of exercise has long consisted of an occasional one-mile jog or a bimonthly hike, running for thirty minutes will come pretty close to killing you the first time you try.
While I’d love to turn the whole thing into a game à la Russ Pitts’s brilliant “Master Chief in Sneakers: Making Life Not Suck,” I’m simply not ready to trust that the Nike+iPod’s RPG-like system will help my body level up. In short, it’s an expensive product and I don’t tend to get into role-playing games all that much.
Next best thing? Listening to Video Games Live: Greatest Hits — Volume 1 on my iPod Shuffle. The “Halo Suite” pushes me into overdrive every time.
Tags: Apple, Halo, iPod, iPod Shuffle, Master Chief, Nike, Nike+iPod, Russ Pitts, Shuffle, The Escapist, VGL, Video Games Live, Video Games Live: Greatest Hits - Volume 1
14 August 2008 at 6:18 pm |
By the way, if you like the idea of turning banal activities into games, check out this great Clive Thompson article. Or, go play Chore Wars. Have fun!