Saturday, October 18, 2008

Run Keeper

The Mactalk podcast covered off runkeeper on their weekly round up of iphone apps and by god it maybe useful. The idea behind the app is to record your run using the GPS of the phone and when you are finished you can get a few basic stats off the phone like km/h and how long you have been running and a history of previous runs with a funky little graph. You can also upload the data to the run keeper website and have it produce wonderful map of your run on google maps with an accompanying graph showing speed over time and elevation over time.
A wonderfully easy app to use and it may encourage me to get off my ass and excercise a little, if for nothing more than see the graphs and maps.
The only negative after a quick blat round the Sculptures by the sea this morning is the lack of ability to exporting your data. Although a post of the forum from early August suggests they are thinking about how is best to do this.

Joy.

1 comment:

fulltimecasual@gmail.com said...

bah! so jealous of you for seeing Sculpture by the Sea... Hopefully I'll be back in Sydney before if finishes, it used to be my favourite way of starting the summer..