While in San Luis Obispo, we decided to try out the CardioTrainer app for the Verizon Droid.
As you read in my brother’s story, the rain was coming down heavily. I put my phone in a zip lock bag so that it would not get wet. We ran around the city and stopped at select locations in order to take pictures.
Basically, you establish a workout, in this case we selected the running workout. Music plays throughout the workout. You can upload your own music, but the music was not to our liking, so we quickly disabled it.
Using GPS, the app records your running route. Below is a map of our first run using CardioTrainer.
Every time you stop along your path for any longer than 30 seconds, the app automatically pauses. We stopped several times on our run and the workout resumes on its own once you start running again, although I wasn’t sure about this so I kept manually restarting it.
The biggest problem was that the app did not follow our complete route. It cut out the 1.1 miles. This could be due to human error.
One cool thing I just figured out is that if you zoom it it gives you an even more accurate impression of the places you ran.
The workout trainer also gives running statistics, so not including the last part of our run we ran 4.34 miles in 55:16 minutes and burned 594 Calories. And we ran an additional 1.1 miles that the program did not account for. Overall, we were running and stopping to take pictures for an hour and 45 minutes, exploring the town of San Luis Obispo.