Nokia N82 sporttracker
OK, so the N82 has a nifty bit of software called the sporttracker. In a nutshell, you turn it on, put it into you pocket or whatever and set it going. It then “talks” to a satellite in the sky and you can track where you have been. Just noticed an option called “live sharing” [...]
How accurate is the Nokia N82 gps?
The whole thing of distance has always fascinated me. Tracking distance may be old school. (Most elite athletes track training time) but for us age groupers, it is always interesting. I once read that when Polar were researching the development of the footpod. They concluded that most sub elite/age groupers (their target market) weren’t too [...]
Running in high heels
05/06/2008 Originally uploaded by road_running A strange thing happened the other day. As I have pointed out, the Salomon trainers aren’t really my thing for running in. Howewer, when putting them on the other day, I noticed a strange thing. How far they actually lifted me from the floor. Because I run in what most [...]
Salomon XT Wings Review
Following the recent post, “the shoes have arrived”, the Salomon XT Wings have been used a carpet slippers for a week or 2 in the roadrunning.net household. The shoes are a fabulous bright red with black trim. There are reflective safety patches in conspicuous places also. Elastic laces anchored at the bottom with a funky [...]
Track our sports with Nokia sport tracker
As we have posted before, roadrunning is going off road with Nokia and Salomon. The Nokia phone has a little application loaded called sport tracker The phone turns into both a stopwatch and a gps tracker which tracks where you go and how fast. You can then upload to the sport tracker community and share [...]