Ever wish going for a run produced something more than sweat? Okay, and muscle and a general sense of well being and… Well, now it can!

The sun is slowly emerging here in Seattle and with the inspiration of a co-worker who has been training for a half-marathon, I’m starting to lace up my running shoes again.  So when I came across this article today (via infosthetics) I had to repost it.

When Nike came out with Nike + I have to say I was a little skeptical.  A tag in your shoe that tracks your run sounds great, so long as the network is secured and someone can’t hack into your habitual running route and lay in wait for you to pass by.  And lo and behold, some computer science students were able to do just that. (Hack into the network, not stalk, as far as I know. Info on that here.)  That was a while ago though, and I’m pretty sure that Nike made the appropriate fixes.

According to YesYesNo,

For the launch of the Nike Free Run+ 2 City Pack series, YesYesNo was invited to develop software that would allow runners to create dynamic paintings with their feet using their Nike+ GPS run data. During the two day workshop at Nike headquarters, we invited the participants to record their runs and then using our custom software we imported the metrics from their run, to create visuals based on the speed, consistency and unique style of each person’s run.

I like art, I like running, and I like useful data.  Does this mean it’s a matter of time until I own Nike +?