Two times lucky...

 It didn't work out with the Amsterdam marathon last month. Actually, I new it, already in the summer. There was simply no time for running, I could not prepare on time.

But now, it is time for the second attempt. I'm already registered for Rotterdam Marathon on 14 April 2013. To make it more interesting it is autumn, days are short, it is cold and it rains, as you can imagine it does in The Netherlands, 7 meters below the sea level. And this is the season I'm going to use to prepare for my first marathon. Fingers crossed.

Next thing is the app itself. The development was pretty much frozen since February, but it is going to be restarted soon. There is new website design coming, and new app version shortly after.

New chapter.

It's time for a marathon

I registered for the Amsterdam Marathon in October. Failure is not an option :-)

I found training program and, today, new running shoes arrived (the old ones are wasted after two half marathons and preparation). I have 5 months time now to prepare for my first real marathon. It's going to be epic adventure.

The development of the app goes slowly right now, but I'm still planning to update it from time to time, to be able to share my first marathon live with my own app.
I'm planning to look at the accelarator to be able to measure the distance more accurately, also in case of GPS problems, and some more website improvements to experiment with cool simple designs.

1000km is a fact

Last Sunday we did it. We reached 1000 kms with the iPhone app.

The half marathon in Rotterdam went perfect. Most important, iPhone app worked without any problems.

The test of our first version of the Android app went also ok. We noticed some issues, but with the test results, stable version will be ready soon.

The iPhone app was also used by Hans during Paris marathon. There we noticed something interesting. The long run with locked iPhone in the tunnel, did cause problems with the GPS. Running with any "location aware" app in the background (locked iPhone or app not active) is not recomended, but anyway, we are going to look at this closely now.

Big Sunday

The time has come. In two days we are going to run with liverunn.in in Rotterdam and Paris.

At the same time, we will break 1000km ran with the app, and test the Android app, developed by Quintin, who is going to run the first half of the Rotterdam Marathon.

My personal target is to finish this little 21,09 kms within 2hrs. There is a little chance, not a big one, but still there is a chance :-)

calm... before the storm

So it is true, that the last post on this blog was written more then one month ago, but the running and testing of the app never stopped. We reached today first 100 runs on liverunn.in :-) With some spectacular 35kms done by Hans during his preparation for Paris.

I worked on the fixes and improvements for the iOS version of the app, and tomorrow after my longest run before my half marathon in Rotterdam, it will be submitted to the appstore.

The Android version of liverunn.in is also comming soon. It is tested now and will be released for the Rotterdam Business Duo Marathon, in two weeks.

And there are many interesting things still in the pipeline :-) There are enough ideas, this is for sure :-)

Rotterdam Half Marathon

Yes, it is just 2 months to Rotterdam Half Marathon. I tried to run in the winter as much as possible, now it is time to pick up the right schedule. With today's 5 kms run I start my preparation, my goal is again to complete half marathon in less then 2 hrs time.

Not easy, I have little time to train ( writing this with one hand, my new born daughter sleeps on my left shouder), my condition is poor, times not good, and the new version of the app is still in the pipeline. Sounds like nice challenge isn't it ?

Today 5km with 5'24'' pace. Enough to work on.

January 2012

It's been a while since last post, but there was for sure enough going on in January to write about.

First of all liverunn.in app, new version of lookwhoisrunning has been released in the first week of 2012. After that the app has been tested, mainly by Hans (jammer) who is training for the marathon in Paris in April.

Mostly thanks to his effort, we have just reached 500 kms, and 54 runs in total. Last week Quintin (morpheus) joined us, and started preparation for his runs this year.

liverunn.in team (me + Quintin) will also run Rotterdam Duo Business Marathon, so we should reach 1000 test kilometers pretty soon :-)

There is also no silence on the development front. Two weeks ago new test server has been set up, meaning that the android version is now in development.
New version of the iPhone app with some improvements is being tested now, and should be ready for download in the App Store in the first week of February.