App Review Tags : "running"

Some people hire a personal trainer. Some people run with friends. Some people just have the will power to motivate themselves. But for most leaving the house to pound the pavements is just a step too far; unless, of course, you’re running for your very life. Yes, in a bizarre crossover of Simon Pegg-isms, Run, Fatboy, Run meets Shaun of the Dead in Zombies Run!… read more

2/6/11 Updated with App Review video

Keeping motivated while exercising is one of the most difficult elements of training, so it pays to be able to track your progress rather than just running, walking, or cycling yourself into the ground with no idea of how much of an impact your regime is making on your health. RunKeeper is a free app that uses GPS to track your route, speed and distance and allows you to upload all that data to your RunKeeper account and keep tabs on your progress online, read more

Jogtracker Pro – and it pains us to use this phrase – does exactly what it says on the tin. It measures distance, time, pace, speed, altitude and a multitude of other variables to allow you to track your exercise over days, weeks and months. You can analyse past runs and check the various graphs to see how you’ve progressed. So does it do the business? read more

From benevolent Uncle Google himself comes My Tracks, an all-purpose tracking app suitable for walkers, runners, cyclists and any other stats-obsessed exercisers. It uses the handset’s GPS-feature to monitor your movements as you work up a sweat and then spits all this data back at you when you want to see exactly where you’ve been or how long it took.
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