If you are a runner and like to share your information there always seems to be a new app around the corner designed to do just that. However a new app that has been released might have an advantage over many of its rivals in that the company that developed it, Nike, might have made the shoes you are running in. For that matter they may have made your entire outfit.
The company has launched an app called Nike Running App for Android that among its other features can link runners into the nikeplus.com site that the company has redesigned prior to the release of the program.
In many ways the app does just what you would expect, and want, from a runners’ app. It tracks performance, provides easy access to running statistics, has an in-run navigation system with a GPS map as well as provide the sound track for your runs.
It enables a user to connect directly to Facebook or Twitter and provide run summaries that can include shoes used, terrain and total mileage. The GPS feature also records the weather for runners based on location.
The nikeplus.com site claims 7 million runners and the redesign was enacted in order to make it more digitally friendly, with much more of a social media focus, according to Nike as well as becoming a motivational tool for the runners. The key feature to motivate is called “Next Moves” that presents a range of challenges for the runner and then provides a dynamic bar showing how well the runner has performed on the challenges.
When I was looking at the Nike web site I was surprised at how many people I knew were registered, including one person that I would have bet only ran when they heard the bell from the ice cream truck out in front of their house. So maybe the motivational messages really work!
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