Discover new running trails with the WalkJogRun app

There are many apps (like RunKeeper and RunMeter) that track where and how much you run, but not many to help you discover new places to run. Luckily, there's the WalkJogRun app [iTunes link] ($.99US), which gives you the ability to navigate through over 500,000 user-submitted map-based running trails.
The iPhone app shares much in common with its desktop browser counterpart. Like WalkJogRun.net, the WalkJogRun app allows you to view specific running trails that you've created, as well as those created by others specific to a certain address, city or landmark (i.e., Golden Gate Bridge, MGM Grand Hotel, etc.). But iPhone technologies provide new layers of functionality and interaction lacking on the site, such as geolocation for finding nearby running routes, which I find very useful in areas I'm not familiar with, and the niceties that come with navigating a map with the iPhone's multitouch display.
Nonetheless, the WalkJogRun app could use some improving. The most needed improvement is the ability to save or bookmark a running trail, which one can do via WalkJogRun.net but not on the iPhone app. My workaround for this is to take screenshots of running trails that I like in the event that I navigate away from the map and can't remember the name or location of the trail. Another improvement, though more of a "nice to have" than a "must have", is the ability to create a trail on the iPhone.
These things aside, at its USD $.99 price tag, the WalkJogRun app serves as an ideal complement to GPS-based iPhone running and biking apps, as well as the Nike+ kit.
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Thanks for showcasing this app, I appreciate apps that are working to be different than the normal metric gathering device. Very cool.
You all should also check out Cadence app. It is also different than the normal running tool in that it plays music from your library that matches the speed you are running at or select.
www.cadenceapp.com
Hey thanks for the plug, we are working on several improvements for the next release of cadence app that will be available in the coming months.
You will be able to use the accelerometer to determine your speed and auto select music that matches your speed
Also the process of finding bpm's for your music will greatly be simplified.
thanks again for the plug int he comments.
more at;
http://www.facebook.com/home.php?#/pages/Cadence-App/110794409731?ref=ts
Thanks for the App Review! I've made a note of the ideas for the app - look for something early January to address your concerns...
Best Regards,
Adam Howitt
Co-Owner at WalkJogRun.net
And use that trails with Go! Running Buddy. More info and screenshots: http://www.facebook.com/gorunningbuddy
References:
"Go! Running Buddy: unâalternativa a Nike+"
www.iphoneitalia.com
"Go! Running Buddy es una excelente aplicación para el iPhone o iPod Touch"
www.appsmac.com
"Go! Running Buddy: Controla y almacena los datos de tus carreras"
www.esferaiphone.com
Fernando Tapia Rico
Go! Running Buddy
HEY JOHN!!!
Cool it man. It sounds cliche but "different strokes for different folks."
I wouldn't use it either, but you have to admit it's a cool tool for those who would like to use it. :-)
Oddly enough, I don't need an iPhone or an app to exercise. How strange and perverted all this has become. Why not just get out and explore, using all your senses?
A "route" is what you make it. I have never in my life taken a hike and not been able to remember where I went. Evidently iPhone users are different.
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