How to track mileage

[woot]

I assume this has been covered so feel free to direct me to relevant threads.

I started running about 4 miles a day 3 or so weeks ago. I just realized that since I tend to find a lot of motivation in online tracking when it comes to reading books and losing weight, the same is likely to hold true for running. However, since I run with my iphone anyway, I wonder if it would be even better to include some sort of GPS/pedometer setup rather than just entering mileage into a web form every day.

Has anyone found success with either of these strategies?

[ERCougar]

I assume this has been covered so feel free to direct me to relevant threads.

I started running about 4 miles a day 3 or so weeks ago. I just realized that since I tend to find a lot of motivation in online tracking when it comes to reading books and losing weight, the same is likely to hold true for running. However, since I run with my iphone anyway, I wonder if it would be even better to include some sort of GPS/pedometer setup rather than just entering mileage into a web form every day.

Has anyone found success with either of these strategies?

Cardiotrainer and Runkeeper both have free apps that will do all this. Free on Android anyway.

[falafel]

I've used Runkeeper (the pro version was free in January - usually $9.99). I like it, but I don't have anything to compare it to. Works well.

[Pheidippides]

Cardiotrainer and Runkeeper both have free apps that will do all this. Free on Android anyway.

The Nike gps app was free recently. Might still be. I use that.

[Slim]

I use runkeeper. I think it is better than cardiotrainer. Cardiotrainer has more features but is overkill and annoying if all you want to do is track mileage/time/pass.

[woot]

Ok I ended up with imapmyruns and runkeeper. So far both seem like they're trying to do an annoying number of different, useless things, but hopefully one of them will let me do the basic stuff I want without insisting that I meet new friends! and send everything to Twitter! I'm ready for web 3.0. 2.0 sucks.

Ok that was cranky. I need to go running.

[woot]

Well, Runkeeper is worthless. Granted, most of the fault seems to be AT&T's, whose service has continued to plummet even after Verizon got rights to the iphone and we all hoped it would ease some of the network burden.

It takes forever trying to find a signal while I'm standing there wondering when I get to start running, and then it talks over my audiobook incessantly, even after I have turned its volume down to zero and said "no" to every possible option. And my reward is to learn that I ran 7.4 miles in 29 minutes, when I actually ran about 4 miles in about 32 minutes. How it manged to eff up the time is beyond me.

And the website seems terrible. A ton of worthless options, but, near as I can tell, not a single calendar view that allows you a glance at your recent history. They instead opt for an unformatted list of workouts, seemingly vying for the "might as well have typed it into a Word doc" demographic.

Maybe I'll just track it myself, at least until I can get rid of AT&T.

Oh and I really need to start boycotting any website that thinks I need a Facebook "like" button after every single thing, especially one that is clearly trying to be a running version of Facebook itself. Maybe there's actually a niche for that, but surely there's a limit to the number of social networks a person can comfortably belong to?

[ERCougar]

I use cardiotrainer and have never had a problem catching a GPS signal. In fact, it's faster than my Garmin. I suspect that's related more to the phone and service than the program though. I also have a free app on my phone called "GPS Status and Toolbox" that is supposed to, among other things, help your phone fix a GPS signal more quickly. I can't verify how well it works other than to say that I've always picked up a signal really quickly. I also don't know if it's available on the iphone.

You can pretty easily turn off all of the social and voice features, but I'm sure you know that.

Anyway, a couple of things to try. None of these match up to the Forerunner in the end, but the price is right. I run and bike with my phone anyway, so I just turn them on in the background.

[SportUTE]

I like cardiotrainer as well. It integrates with noom to give a comprehensive tracking of your personal data. They hit the right balance of features, interface and "prodding" in the form of alerts and reminders.

Sent from my DROID X2 using Tapatalk