The all new Nike Plus website.

It’s no secret that i’m a bit of a stats freak or that I love Nike plus for ipod/iphone. In fact i’ve logged over 270 runs and nearly 3000 miles since I got mine.

Those people that follow me on twitter or facebook will know that I have been equally vocal about my dis-satifaction of the Nikeplus.com website, which I have always seen as a huge missed opportunity. The find a friend feature has never worked and its pretty much impossible to use a social site without either the ability to share with friends or to comment on each others workouts. For these reasons I have tended to log my miles with a Nike plus device and then import them into dailymile which has a far better social structure.

Over the past few months Nike have completely rebuilt the website using java instead of flash and getting the basics right. While they are still working on challenges and sharing route information, at long last I can find friends from my other social networks.

The new interface is simple, polished and intuitive. The iphone app has also seen some great improvements with switching between split mile times and colour code pace maps simply by rotating the phone. There’s also a graph of elevation, although I have no idea of how you see the total elevation of your run on either the iphone or website.

Its a great improvement and it shows fantastic potential, I just hope that they continue to maintain and improve it this time around.