Can you run with an ipod?

sunkenvilla

Hello.

I have just taken up running and I would like to know if an iPod is suitable for using when running? I know this is probably a daft question due to the fact it has a hard drive, but I'm asking anyway.

If it is not suitable, can someone suggest a good music player with memory card/internal memory that is suitable for running with. I don't want to pay more than £150 if that's possible.

Later.

GibsonSt19

You can run with them, and I know plenty of people who do, however as they contain a hard drive, and not a solid state media (in other words they've got moving parts) I wouldn't recommend it, and neither do the majority of people.

You should have a look HERE (IPODLOUNGE) and perhaps search their forums.

I use my iPod at the gym, but I keep it held in the drinks holder (wrapped in my hand towel). Although the vibrations from the treadmill may effect it, the shock value isn't the same as running/jogging.

You can get arm band iPod holders, which were designed for running use, however there's no way you can completely remove the 'jogging' motion and therefore effects on the unit.

Hope that helps.

condyk

As mentioned, not recommended due to moving parts in HD!

Get a cheap 256MB solid state effort and add a selection of 'inspiring' tunes to get you going :-) Why no one has ever launch a 'Greatest Running Hits' compilation I don't know!!

GibsonSt19

condyk wrote:

As mentioned, not recommended due to moving parts in HD!

Get a cheap 256MB solid state effort and add a selection of 'inspiring' tunes to get you going :-) Why no one has ever launch a 'Greatest Running Hits' compilation I don't know!!

Well, if that's not a precursor to you stepping up and compiling one for all us MSE'ers, I don't know what is!

I guess it'd include a spash of tracks from 'Drive Time 1, 2, 3, 4, 5...etc', a slick of 'Top Gear 1, 2, 3, 4, 5...etc', a strumming of 'The Best Air Guitar Album in The World, EVER! Part 9', some obligatory trance tracks (they make the miles FLY by!) and some very speaker destroying R&B.

Go on, you know you want to.

foxhound_2

Youre supposed to be able to jog with them for around half an hour, thats the official apple opinion anyway.

Jay1b

IPods are just fashion accessories, they are the most over priced item of there type. If you want a IPod type thing, then i would go for IRiver, they are cheaper and better.

Personally i would opt for a solid state MP3 player, Dixons sell them for about £80 for 1Gb, thats about 12 CDs worth. You can also use them for data storage for your computer......super floppy's!


Obviously i am sure you can get better offers then those from Dixons.

EvilMonkey

A lot of people tell you that running is ok because it doesn't skip, but the people who are really geeky about these things point out that you severly shorten the life of the drive with all the extra impacts jogging puts on it. I go with all the others, you can pick up a 1GB SD card for £50 ish and a SD mp3 player for not too much, surely 1GB's enough, how long were you planning to run for ! ;-)

pearly_2

You definitely cannot run with an iPod.

At first you will look super cool and funky, but then it will skip and eventually FREEZE. Then you will become enraged and throw a hissy fit in the middle of the park, and you will be cool and funky no longer.

At least that's how it happened to me :mad:

before_hollywood

the cheap ones have no moving parts and are more suited to that kind of thing

before_hollywood

pss mp3 players start around £25 with 64mb memory.
put your tracks in wma format and thats average 30.

Al_Mac

You can run, but run fast, cause you nicked it and the old bill are just behind you.:D