Endomondo fitness tracker...in the car
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I searched and didn't find a mention of this app here so I thought i'd toss it out there.
Endomondo is a great fitness/time/distance tracker app free for Apple and Android. I use it for biking and hiking to keep track of my workouts, and I thought I’d give it a shot while driving a favorite road last night and it seems to work pretty well. It gives a breakdown of your speed, time, distance, and elevation of your route, and also overlays it on a variety of Google maps, available on the website and on a phone. You have to let it keep GPS open so it’s not too nice for battery life, but I’ve run it for 2hrs and didn’t drain the entire battery in my Optimus, which has a notoriously shitty battery. The image below is a screenshot of the quick test drive. I’m out playing on this loop all the time and while curious I’d never make the effort to figure all these data points out myself. While I have not found a way to adjust the distance between splits (whole miles and kms only), I thought it still might be a decent free app for lap timing if you don’t have anything else, and definitely useful for actually excercising lol. https://www.miataturbo.net/attachmen...9&d=1311178309 |
Thanks for the suggestion, I'm gonna have to give this one a shot on my bike tonight.
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Any advantage to using this over Google My Tracks?
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Am I the only one who finds it odd that we are now voluntarily subjecting ourselves to the same basic form of constant-surveillance which all of the tinfoil-hatters were prophesying doom about in the 80s and 90s?
And bragging about it? |
Originally Posted by mgeoffriau
(Post 751208)
Any advantage to using this over Google My Tracks?
Originally Posted by Joe Perez
(Post 751211)
Am I the only one who finds it odd that we are now voluntarily subjecting ourselves to the same basic form of constant-surveillance which all of the tinfoil-hatters were prophesying doom about in the 80s and 90s?
And bragging about it? Once you give up your SSN as an ID for a couple bank accounts, etc, I figure you're well screwed and need to just stop worrying about it lol. |
Originally Posted by Joe Perez
(Post 751211)
Am I the only one who finds it odd that we are now voluntarily subjecting ourselves to the same basic form of constant-surveillance which all of the tinfoil-hatters were prophesying doom about in the 80s and 90s?
And bragging about it? |
Originally Posted by mgeoffriau
(Post 751224)
I think my generation is generally too fond of being in front of the camera (any camera).
It looks like a useful tool, theres a trail I run that I'd really like to know the distance of. |
The one I find even worse is whatever facebook app people have where your smartphone automatically posts "Joe is at Barnes & Noble" or "Mark is at the gay porn store" and then informs you if anybody else in your friends list is also shopping for gay porn at the same place so that you can hook up and do... whatever it is two men who know each other do when they meet unexpectedly at a place which sells gay porn and rents private cubicles by the half-hour.
Yeah, that's exactly what I want. An app that lets people know when I am not home, so that random assholes can break in and steal shit. |
Originally Posted by Gearhead_318
And this is why OP uses Endomondo fitness tracker?
And yeah that "feature" is ridiculous, Joe. Never understood why that would appeal to anyone over the age of 20. |
Originally Posted by Gearhead_318
(Post 751234)
And this is why OP uses Endomondo fitness tracker?
I use My Tracks to record bike rides sometimes, particularly when I'm riding a new route and I want a total distance. But I also like having the power to turn the "camera" off when I want. |
downloading app now... will be really nice if i can get it to work on a road i frequent on my trip to the cottage.... but there is no cell reception there... and i never try to see if gps works without it.
iPhone 4 user here. (not an apple whore... i just like the way it functions compared to my old BB) |
Originally Posted by Joe Perez
(Post 751236)
The one I find even worse is whatever facebook app people have where your smartphone automatically posts "Joe is at Barnes & Noble" or "Mark is at the gay porn store" and then informs you if anybody else in your friends list is also shopping for gay porn at the same place so that you can hook up and do... whatever it is two men who know each other do when they meet unexpectedly at a place which sells gay porn and rents private cubicles by the half-hour.
Yeah, that's exactly what I want. An app that lets people know when I am not home, so that random assholes can break in and steal shit. PS, I'm highly irritated when someone I was with just has to post "I was with ______ at _______." I don't need you letting people know you were with me somewhere, none of their business. |
I use that sometimes, but uits for me personally.... kind of like geotagging my pictures.
i would love to have a map with where i have been and what i have done there, but i dont need to share it with anyone. |
I use an app like that to track my progress on my bicycle rides. Using these phone apps for faster things like cars and motorcycles isn't as fitting, since most phone GPS's only update once per second. You can get faster GPS receivers that will pair to your phone via bluetooth though.
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