In fairness to them, they did give out a number of discounts and some bands. They seeded a number to other communities like PhilMUG for instance. Not sure of the other avenues.

I meant, have someone manually count the number of people who finish the race. So if it’s a 10k race, X number of people x 10k = Country total. It can then be added to our country total since it is a Nike Human Race event anyway.

I know the sportsband is a cool toy and all, but I’d just hate to tell a runner that hey, you can’t join because you don’t have the proper equipment.

I guess a hypothetical question to Nike would be, would you rather have 1,000 potential runner/customers vs 100 who have the sports band/ipod kit?

@alvin – they obviously thought of that but it can’t be done on a logistics level. each nike band can only be linked to one person so group uploading is impossible.

as for the 1,000 participants, well, let’s see. as of day 1, the count was around 30 runners. i think “1,000″ is more of a marketing thing to make it sound more appealing.

What they could have done was organize a race.

Compile the total distance ran by the participants.

Upload the distance as a whole to our country total.

Offer a substantial discount to those who want to buy the sports band.

I sure hope I’m wrong, but just based on experience, it’s not easy to gather 1,000 runners, more so runners with the “required” equipment.

It’s upselling at its lowest IMO.

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