My friend Debbie is in love with this app. I am a treadmill sort of girl, especially this time of year in Texas! Debbie has been using the Map My Run app for about a month now, and she sends me a daily text message with a screen shot of her walk; showing the distance, time, route, and the amount of calories burned. Don’t let the name fool you, Map My Run works for walking too.

From the developer:

Track running, cycling, and over 600 types of other activities with:
⊕ Pace
⊕ GPS Route Mapping
⊕ Distance
⊕ Route navigation
⊕ Calorie counting
⊕ Elevation profile
⊕ Nutrition, food, diet, and weight tracking
⊕ Real-time Stats (avg, min, max) during workout
⊕ Voice prompts that give you updates on your progress as you go!
⊕ Sync with heart rate, speed, cadence and power sensors from CycleOps, Wahoo, Polar, Garmin and others (Bluetooth Smart™ and ANT+™)
⊕ Compete on local Courses: receive automatic achievements and overall rank on Leaderboards for popular local runs and rides.
⊕ Tracks in the background so you can listen to music, take calls, and use any other feature of your phone, while still tracking

Bragging (optional!):
⊕ Post your workouts to Facebook and Twitter, or keep every thing completely private

Upgrade to MVP and get:
⊕ Live friend tracking
⊕ Audio coaching
⊕ Interval training
⊕ Advanced analytics
⊕ Ad-free experience (on web and mobile)
⊕ Integrated GPS Camera
⊕ iPod controls built in
⊕ Much more

All of your info syncs securely with your free account on www.MapMyRun.com.

Perfect training app for “couch to 5K”, all the way to elite marathoner, or even someone just looking for a weight loss, diet or calorie counting app.

Great for training for 10K, half marathon, marathon, even 50k (battery life up to 8 hours of tracking on newer phones!).

Visit www.MapMyRun.com to:

⊕ Search the world’s largest database of running, walking, and cycling routes.

⊕ Join sponsored challenges and WIN PRIZES (i.e. trips and shoes) just for running.

⊕ Connect with our community of millions of fitness enthusiasts.

⊕ Sync devices like Nike+, Garmin, Polar, CycleOps Joule, PowerTap, Fitbit, Timex, Magellan.

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