#PEBBLE MYTRACKS ANDROID#

Runkeeper has (and has had for at least the past year) the ability to build custom workouts like you mention, using distance or time, several different paces (slow, steady, fast), warmup/cooldown, etc., and it will audibly inform you when finish one thing and move on to the next, as well as telling you what the next one is. Only other problem I have is that if I run near uneven terrain (along river bluffs, in particular) I might be running a completely flat course but it might think I've gone up and down the bluffs 25 times and record a total elevation gain of a thousand feet, but I suspect that's more to do with the elevation data from google not lining up quite right, I don't hold it against the app. I've started restarting the phone 5-10 minutes before I go for a run and the maps come out pretty accurate.

#PEBBLE MYTRACKS ANDROID#

Don't know if it's the phone or the app (starting to think the app if it's happening across a variety of phones and on iOS and Android both) but sometimes I get maps like the one in the article. All I'm interested in are accurate distance and time, not friends or training or whatever, and it does distance and time just fine and dandy IF you get a good GPS signal. Apps and capacitive touchscreens don't really compare.ĭoes anyone know how the android version compares to this? Rumour has it that they put more effort into the iPhone version and I am trying to find the best running app on android. I miss that and when I can afford it, I'm getting another one. Runner's World had a page to output garmin training plans with different workouts every day so you'd just choose 'Start Today's Workout' and go do whatever it told you to. And the killer feature that no app I've tried has really replicated well is that you can enter a training plan like 1mi warmup, 6x(800m sprint, 200m jog), 1 mi cooldown. None of these comes remotely close to being as good as my currently dead Garmin 205. The biggest annoyance with a sportband is that there's no backlight and no noise so I have to just intuit how far I've gone or wait for a car with bright headlights to check myself before the sun is up. My favorite thing to use right now is the nike footpod and sportband because it's dead simple (only two buttons) and I can work it with gloves or a nice sweaty finger and it just works right away. Once calibrated, the distances for the nike apps are pretty dang accurate and despite myself, I find that I actually want their stupid activity points for some reason. The difference is whether it just reads your built-in accelerometer or uses the nike+ footpod. On ipod touch, I've tried nike+ running and nike+ipod running a few times. I've bounced around to a few including runkeeper, but always come back to Google's MyTracks as meeting the minimum of what I need and having the fewest tie-ins to websites and social stuff. On my android, the biggest annoyance is that I can't see the mileage on the lock screen with any program that I know of. I've used a wide variety of these apps on android (droid pro) and ipod touch.

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