Next week I'll participate in the Danish 5 km run "DHL stafet" along with a couple of employees from DIKU. That means I've been running for the last 2 months or so. Exercise is not really my "thing", but getting my new iPhone 3G made it a whole lot more fun.
I installed the application RunKeeper which tracks your runs - speed and GPS location. After a run you can login to the RunKeeper website and see your run. The application costs 59 DKK - which is one of the more pricey applications in App Store.
It has a little problem connecting to the GPS satelites, which means you start the application, and get a "determining location" - which takes a loooong time, right when you are standing there ready to run, and sometimes it even fails to connect and you have to retry - that's really annoying, but otherwise it works like a charm.
RunKeeper recommends having the iPhone on an armband out in plain sight, but with a combination of the danish weather and the iPhones ability to resist water - that is not really a good combo.
Anyway - wish me luck - it the first 5 km run I've ever participated in 
Good luck! I have recently started a running program to go from 0 to 5 km in 10 weeks, and the results are already showing after 3.5 weeks!
Posted by Marc Dierens on August 28, 2008 at 03:45 PM CEST #
If you like getting geeky with your running, I cannot recommend a running computer strongly enough (I have a Polar RS200SD). For longer runs, the heart rate monitor really helps you pace yourself. Bonus, it works with linux.
Posted by Josef Assad on August 29, 2008 at 09:02 AM CEST #