I love to use the Run.GPS software for training while cycling or running. After testing the old version and testing the new beta version; the final version is released. Check the website for more information. Happy training!

After installing RUN.GPS Trainer UV you first have to get used to the new interface. It's a big confusing at the first time but once you're used to it, it works great. All the graphics look a better and there are more speech options. That's the greatest thing I like, you can hear what your stats are during your trip. I put my PDA always away so I cannot see it but I listen to music while RUN.GPS tells me how fast I am cycling. It's very simple to compare your tracks to the last time to see if you gain in speed or distance. Afterwards you can simply upload your track to there portal server and see it on Google maps. Together with the analysis like I showed before it gives you all the information you need.

There are still things that need improvement, apart from the text sometimes not fitting on a button (assume it's a beta problem) the big "problem" with all those programs like RUN.GPS or GPSTuner is that the background maps are not easy to import. You have to make screen dumps from Google maps and imported them.

All together it works fine on my PDA while cycling, the only thing I still miss is heart rate monitoring but that's more a hardware problem then software. More about that in my next post.

Check the website at http://www.rungps.net/Wiki.jsp?page=TrainerUV

From the newsletter they reported the new version of RUN.GPS with a much better user interface, looks much fancier.

http://www.rungps.net/Wiki.jsp?page=TrainerUV

There are more websites that provide the option to create tracks or download tracks into RUN.GPS so you can follow them, check out the following sites:

http://www.gps-tour.info/index.html/sitelang.en/

http://www.gpsies.com/

What my wish was always to be able to register my cycling tracks and see details about it afterwards. A simple cycling computer cannot track your route since it does not know where you're going to. Now with today's mobile devices with building GPS it's possible.

RUN.GPS will plot your training on a map (where you can create a background image from Google maps) and it will tell (it actually speaks) you all details about speed, distance, pause times, altitude and lap details. Once finished you can upload the information to the portal and if you took pictures during your trip it will show them together with your track on a Google map. You can also predefine a route you want to cycle on the portal and then download it into your mobile device and it tell you where to go to and show you remaining distance.

Have a look at their website if you're interested in using your Windows mobile device for recording information on your sport. http://www.rungps.net/

At the portal you can see where you have cycled and information about your tracks
http://www.gps-sport.net/

Below is a report generated on my Windows mobile.