Sunday, September 25, 2011

My running tools

After my fall during my usual run in June, I started my run again in late August. The main reason is that I love running. It not only keep me cardinal, muscular and psychological fit. In addition, I can meditate during my run. I enjoy any minor achievement in speed, pace, distance and time. In order to run in a more secure way, I equip myself in the following ways:
I have tired the following iPhone Apps: Nike+, Runkeeper, iSmoothrun. However, I found that iSmoothrun is the best.
The best features I like are
Track your Shoe mileage.
Every runner knows that tracking the mileage of his running shoes is essential. Now it's easier than ever.
Listen to your music.
Music is scientifically proven to be a great motivator. iSmoothRun is compatible with iPod. It will properly lower the volume for the announcements and then restore it. You listen to Podcasts? No problem. We added option to pause.
Auto logging of weather conditions
Because you might have been slow for a reason
Listen
Accurately tracks time, distance, location, pace, altitude, running cadence, heart rate, and reports them with audio announcements at configurable time or distance intervals. It also have a Heart Rate Zone change Audio cue
Check your run on the map.
With one glance see where you were fast or slow. The path is colored by pace.
Check your workout statistics.
Average pace/speed, cadence, total distance, time, average/maximum heart rate and climb. Splits and interval statistics. Graphs for pace cadence heart rate and altitude. All that during and after the workout.
Finally, I usually export the details and upload to my personal account in runkeeper website. It is then shared through Facebook so that I can't be lazy.

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When my age reach 50, size of RAM is dropping. I have to save everything to Secondary Storage at once.