Tracking

[Sarahjb77]

Does anyone know of any good apps to track distance, calories, heart rate etc to go alongside c25k?

[Flukioni]

I use Strava on iOS. It tracks route, pace, distance, calories, heart rate (with appropriate sensors) and quite a few more.

On the computer, you can review you activity in better details and scrub through the run with an overlay of the route and pace to see what happened where on the run.

You can probably do a lot of this with Map My Run as well but i haven't used that.

[sallenson Graduate]

Most people go with the free version of Strava. Map My Run is another poplular alternative, but some have issues with its GPS tracking

[Hannah337 Graduate]

I'll second Strava. Just switched over to it, instead of map my run, and it feels better and easier to use.

[Jay66UK Graduate]

I’m using the freebie app with the iPhone with an old Apple Watch. It’s not as feature rich as Strava etc.

[Ripcurlrana71]

Freebie Strava

[Sarahjb77]

Thanks everyone just heading out on wk2 run1

[WordsworthFhang]

I use the built in Google Fit app on my android phone. It gives steps, distance, calories and time active, although the actual auto-assigning of activities is a bit hit and miss - for example if cycling slowly due to traffic it seems to assume you are walking! But it's ok as a guide, always monitoring (not just during the training run) and free.

For heart rate, I have a cheap Beurer heart rate monitor watch. It doesn't connect to anything, but you can set upper and lower HR limits and it also monitors steps and distance through the day. Latest model is about £35 on Amazon.

[thegirlfrommarz Graduate]

I like to make sure I am tracked by at least 2 things whenever I set out on a run: my Polar H7 chest strap heart rate monitor (they are apparently more accurate than HRM watches), and my Fitbit Charge 2 (hilariously inaccurate in counting steps, so much so that I frequently achieve my daily goal while lying down). I obviously felt that I wasn't under enough daily surveillance, so I also added Runkeeper to the mix yesterday.

The Polar HRM and Fitbit both track heart rate (it has been genuinely cool to see how my resting heart rate has improved over the time I've been doing C25K - unless the Fitbit is lying to me again); the Polar HRM and Runkeeper use GPS tracking for pace and distance; and the Fitbit tracks my steps (or slight arm movements, or the vibrations on a bus, or....). You can pair both the Fitbit and the HRM to Runkeeper, as I'm sure you can with other similar apps.

If you have the money, the HRM is great - I got mine for about £30, but they seem to have gone up in price. I do enjoy the Fitbit and don't mind the inaccuracy, but it has some serious flaws.

[HoagyM Graduate]

Strava for me - having the app on the Apple Watch as well means I don’t need too take my phone on runs, and the stats are I think better than MapMyRun.