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2011-11-28 10:19 AM

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Subject: Runner Live Tracking App for Droid and Iphone

I was wondering what most of you think is the best app currently available for live tracking a runner.  Any other feature that the app has would be a plus, but it would mostly be used to see where a runner is during a HM. 

I have played around with the live feature of imapmyrun, but it doesn’t work most of the time.  I have read some good reviews of runkeeper elite but it certainly is not cheap, so I would be curious to know what you guys have had good results with.



2011-11-28 11:01 AM
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 I use Cardio Trainer on my Android. It sucks in the city for GPS but out in the burbs or country it works great.
2011-11-28 11:21 AM
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For a thrid party to track you? Or to simply record your data?  Mapmyrun doesn't work with my android for some reason, but I use run gps trainer lite all the time.
2011-11-28 11:27 AM
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It would be for a third party to track me.  Data is taken care of with the garmin.

The times that the mapmyrun live options has worked it has been great.  You can see on your cell the exact location of the runner and how fast they are going, but it doesnt work as expected very often.

2011-11-28 11:33 AM
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If you are carrying your cellphone and are only concerned with location ... why not just use Latitude on Google Maps and allow location sharing?
2011-11-28 1:30 PM
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I've used Glympse, works fairly well.


2011-11-28 1:40 PM
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2011-11-28 2:03 PM
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I use Endomondo. They can track your location live and can also text you with "pep talk"

 

2011-11-28 2:09 PM
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I hadn’t thought about Google latitude, going to look into it and see how good it works for this, even if it would be nice that it were a running oriented app.

I really like the concept of Glympse, I’m going to download it and see how well it works.

2011-11-28 2:15 PM
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dtrimmer - 2011-11-28 12:03 PM

I use Endomondo. They can track your location live and can also text you with "pep talk"

 

 

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My wife likes to give me pep talks during my long runs while she tracks my progress from the comfort of our couch.

2011-11-28 2:31 PM
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dtrimmer - 2011-11-28 3:03 PM

I use Endomondo. They can track your location live and can also text you with "pep talk"

 

Thanks for the tip.  Got the app and it seems very promising and simple to use.  Will report back once i have had an opportunity to run and test it out this afternoon.



2011-11-28 3:49 PM
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The problem with using Glympse is the people tracking you would have to know the course you are racing on, since it does not show miles covered, so they wouldn't know what mile you are on in the race.
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schwarztrader - 2011-11-28 3:15 PM
dtrimmer - 2011-11-28 12:03 PM

I use Endomondo. They can track your location live and can also text you with "pep talk"

 

 

+1

My wife likes to give me pep talks during my long runs while she tracks my progress from the comfort of our couch.

 

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2011-11-29 7:11 AM
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Subject: RE: Runner Live Tracking App for Droid and Iphone

I tried glympse yesterday and it works fairly well, it is not run oriented but it certainly would do the trick for tracking a runner during a marathon.

In regards to Endomondo, i got the app yesterday and played with it for a while and i have to say that i like it a lot.  What i haven't been able to find out is if you can track someone using Endomondo as well from your cellphone app, i tried the tracking feauture on the computer and it worked great.

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