After getting my iPhone back in September, I downloaded the Runkeeper app and tried it out for a bit. My main gripe with it was that you couldn’t use the keylock while tracking your run and so it was just that bit too easy to accidently press ’stop’ when you were mid run. That and the GPS tracking was a little flaky – and I live in central London – so no excuse really. So I went back to a good ol’ watch combined with Gmap Pedometer to track it all.
But since then, during the festive lazy period, I somehow lost the watch.
So today, I went out for a very cold run/walk to Marylebone across Regents Park. And with no watch, I thought I’d give Runkeeper a go again today. You can see my progress below. It was an absolutely baltic day – so much so that the lake and river in the park was frozen solid. But despite the bitterness of it, the day was beautiful in a way that only mid winter can be. And after coughing up two months worth of lazyness, I remembered how to run again.
...after a long break!
For once the app managed not to stop halfway round and so on coming home, I had a look at updates. And hip hip hooray because they’ve now fixed the keylock problem with an in-app lock, improved the GPS and soon, there will be an improved paid app to try. I’ve downloaded the new Runkeeper Free and am going to give it a go this week – walking to work, running and best of all, snowboarding. Will report back. 
