Guys. I’m excited. I just got my Microsoft Band 2. I’ve been wearing the first gen Band since its release. Yes, I was an early adopter of a Microsoft product. A rare occurrence for me. To be an early adopter of anything really, not just of Microsoft products. But particularly of Microsoft.
But anyway, I’m excited because the Band and Band 2 means…data collection. And I have recently come to realize that I get an inordinate amount of pleasure from collecting data.
I believe I’ve mentioned before that I wear a Fitbit. I went from the Flex, which I liked quite a bit, to a Force, which I also liked quite a bit, almost to a Charge, but then Microsoft released their Band right after I preordered the Charge. So…I ended up impulse buying the Band and then cancelling my order with Fitbit. I did end up getting a Fitbit One because THEM provides a wellness program that recognizes data from Fitbit but not Microsoft, so…I found it necessary to wear two fitness trackers for data collection.
You might wonder what I do with all this data. Do I crunch it? First of all, I have no idea what that means. I’ve never found data to be particularly crunchy. And also, no. I mostly just look at it. I might plot and trend it, I might use to calculate other things, but mostly I get a lot of pleasure out of just collecting it. Some people collect souvenir spoons. I collect data. I may also collect dust, but that’s another story.
You might also wonder how I realized I liked collecting data so much. It’s really because I’ve started running again. You might know of my hate-hate relationship I have with running as a form of exercise. Actually looking back, I apparently haven’t written very much about it on this blog. But collecting data while running has made running so much more bearable. I will go for a run almost exclusively for the data now. The exercise is really a bonus at this point. Data. Important.
The sad thing is, I’ve been sidelined from running for the next month or so. So I can’t use my new Band to track my running stats. I am tracking stats from the lower impact stuff I’m doing right now though. It’s…just not as fun as collecting running stats.
