Advice

[Joggingonthewildside]

Has anyone used this app? My phone is too old to download the Nike Running app .. any suggestions.. I guess I’m missing Laura😢

[Doris8 Graduate10]

Hi never used the app you have mentioned. Are u still not using magic ju-ju plan ? I skipped parts of the juju plan and got to 10 km but not in the 60 minutes, still can’t do 5 km in 30 and probably never will but not to bothered as long as I’m running and enjoying didn’t matter of time and trying to keep injury free. Have you a timer on your watch to run walk like Laura ?😊

[Joggingonthewildside in reply to Doris8]

Yes I’m due to start week 2 of ju-ju’s plan .. I can’t do 5k in 30 mins either but not bothered about timings .. just wanted a bit of encouragement on my runs .. think the app I mentioned is a bit American and cheesy so don’t think that’s for me .. just interested in what others did

[Doris8 Graduate10 in reply to Joggingonthewildside]

Oh got you, yes agree Laura was encouraging you on your run , but you’ve got us all here encouraging you along , keep it up anyway 🤗

[Joggingonthewildside in reply to Doris8]

Aw thank you 😊

[CBDB Graduate10 in reply to Joggingonthewildside]

It’s not quite like Laura, but Runkeeper in its free version has also different sets of voices with different sayings.

And I - like you - was in need of hearing a voice every once in a while. I set Runkeeper to give me an update every 0.5k and it gives me also some hilarious motivational phrases! (Drill Sargent: “get moving! I’m not your mother”, French Voice with french accent: “Oohhh la la you ran fast”

That might be an idea.

Just one thing to note about Runkeeper, you need to be in QuickStart without any intervals or Settings programmed, otherwise the voices do not work.

[LottieMW Ambassador in reply to CBDB]

I did not know this!

[Joggingonthewildside in reply to CBDB]

I’ll have a look at that .. sounds fun .. thank you 😊

[Fionamags Graduate10]

Haven't used that app as I used the Magic Plan. Did you notice that there are two versions of it? I did the increasing run time version to get to 60 mins then I picked up the distance version at the point where I'd got to on the timed one. Quite a few of us did it that way.

[Joggingonthewildside in reply to Fionamags]

That’s interesting.. let’s see how I get on next week .. thank you for your advice