The Balkan Yankee

The doctor cleared me to start running again and started back with a short 3km run today to stretch out my legs, and try out the Trail Guru application for the iPhone. I researched a lot of different iPhone running applications that could replace the Nike+ for the iPod Nano while I had the time off running. Trail Guru was the first one I found that looked like a real contender:

On their web site you can see some other graphical data that relates to my workout(ie. elevation, speeds, time).

I’m pretty impressed with how well it works… it is a little screwy with the elevations (it started way to high) but was pretty good on speed, and the GPS map is great. That’s a huge improvement over Nike+. Boyana has been using it already for the last few weeks also, and it sounds like they have been slowly fine tuning it to give more accurate data (First couple times she used it she had top speeds logged at 99km/hr).

My only complaint is that I wish they’d give you some way to lock the buttons on the interface while you run since you have to keep the screen on for the GPS.

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