Running

I blogged last November about how using Runkeeper on my iPhone might make me exercise more. Now it's working. This week I ran three times, the last two over 3 miles! Here's my latest run.

I am now officially in 5K shape. Well I guess I need to run another .08 miles but I can probably manage that without walking or throwing up.

Exercise, meet Technology

I downloaded the free RunKeeper app for the iPhone because the Buffalo Bills lost another game they should have won. I wonder if that makes sense to anyone.

What this app does is track your location while you do any sort of activity (walk, run, cycle) and compile statistics which get uploaded to the runkeeper website. I tried it out for the first time today on my walk with Lilo. Here's what you see when you go to the website:

Pretty cool. The blue line on the bottom tracks the speed and the green line is elevation. And that is the exact route we took. It may be silly, but I am much more motivated to exercise when I can come home and look at my stats.

Apparently a 2.44 mile walk makes Lilo tired: