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Tracking runs is fun! :D

Swizec Teller published on in Insanity.

Today I finally figured out how to get sportypal working. Tomorrow I’m testing the hypotesis to make sure it wasn’t a one-time fluke.

The trick is to start it up when you’re home. Then after the warmup walk kill it and open it again. This time GPS connect is instant.

But the true lesson for today is that tracking runs is FUN. I even got a map and everything :D Sure it looks a bit weird where it decided I was running zigzag through houses and trees and cars and garages and pretty much everything at a sooper speed of 30! kilometers per hour.

But hey, it’s a blackberry not an iPhone (or Android), so I shan’t complain. I’m just glad I can finally use this crap.

Hmmm … for some reason wordpress won’t let me embed the map, so here’s a screenshot.

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  • http://flickr.com/photos/njmc Bashi_B

    o, jst tud to laufam, java varianto na Nokii, Pa mi vedno tacajt k pridem pred blok in zavežem vezalke že najde satelit. Je pa med hišami in v gosti Džungli mal nenatančn, na odprtem pa dokaj točn.

  • Tonći

    Hehe, I started tracking yesterday (with iPhone and RunKeeper.com), but I can assure you the tracking isn’t without errors, sometimes it looks like I go into warp speed :P