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Training Apps for Every Athlete... Logyourrun app $2.99 Strong app for those looking to log a run and bike and, say, canoe ride. This app, while having a pedometer, relies heavily on the GPS feature of the iPhone to track your start-to-end distance. Even upload your runs to facebook or your own web page. Logs route, distance, elevation and offers to store your “runs” to review as part of a training program.
B.iCycle $9.99 A fully featured cyclometer for only ten bucks! Shows you actually moving on a map for realtime or preplanned riding. Also offers to record rides for future use. Save them, email them and even share them. They also recommend a “bicycle mount pedestal with swivelhead” from semons.com for easy use. Offers accurate current speed, average speed, max speed, total distance, trip distance, current altitude, climbed altitude and estimated burned calories.
AccuTerra Unlimited $2.99 For the real hiking, camping and trail enthusiist. Built-in access to over five million miles of GIS data and maps. Offering the most complex terrain data for recording hikes, trail runs and other purely off-road activities, with programmable waypoints for finding your way out or even back in. Also offers built-in access to the camera to put photos exactly on the map from your vantage point. Talk about sharing a view.
FitView $5.99 Wanna really get granular with your training? Track It all: BMI, Weight, Blood Preassure, Calories consumed, fat consumed - even body temperature. Strong for its ability to build and track aerobic exercises and strength training exercises. It even has the ability to track and trend based on a day, week, month and year. TriCalc $1.99 Listed on the USAT list of ten best apps. Plug in your individual times for each leg and the app will calculate the total time for many of the common race types. Built-in support for 20k, 40k, 80k, Half Iron, Metric Century, Century and even the Ironman. Summer Running Clothes For the Ladies...
Above, left to right: Alexis High Impact Sports Bra with molded cups and thin adjustable shoulder straps; Vixen High Impact Sports Bra, racerback with molded cups; and the Charity Sports Bra with contoured cups. All by Moving Comfort, $36 each. Middle left: Women’s Sugoi Verve Sleeveless Top ($35) and Moxie Shorts ($40). Below, center: Ladies’ Race Ready Long Distance Sport Skirt ($50) with 5 back pockets, Cool Max lining and boy shorts underneath. Shoes below left: Ladies’ Brooks Glycerin 8 (bottom shoe), good for long distance training with the DNA cushioning system ($130); Brooks Ghost 2 (top shoe), a bit better for race day.
And For the Men... Above right: And for the guys, Men’s Nike Dri-Fit Race Day Singlet ($55) in a super-soft, lightweight material, and 4-inch Tempo Track Shorts ($30). Below right: Mens’ Nike Vomero 5 (top shoe), a neutral shoe good for long runs ($130); and the Nike Pegasus 27 (bottom shoe), a more responsive shoe with good heel cushioning ($90). All running items on this page available at Breakaway Running.
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