Humans have been running for millennia but fast track to 2011 and runners, including us, are discovering the benefits these apps and other such GPS-enabled devices provide. Now we have the athlete igeek!
You probably know one, too. They're easily identified standing on a street corner waiting for a lock on a satellite signal. The athlete igeek is powerless without it for how else will he or she keep track of distance traversed, time elapsed, top speeds and total calories expended?
We looked at adidas micoach and the Garmin range of GPS watches to monitor our progress. Were we getting faster? Could we pace ourselves so we didn't run ourselves into the ground too early? The data at our fingertips offered answers to these questions and more.
Websites like Garmin Connect even display the data from other user's runs from around the world.
Many of these running apps are free but a few feature packed apps will set you back a few dollars.
What are the top 5 running apps? Here they are:
1. adidas micoach,
2. iMapMyRun,
3. Runkeeper
4. Nike+,
5. Runmeter GPS
