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.

liverunn.in is live

New year, new chapter. Lookwhoisrunning.com has been converted to liverunn.in The app itself is in review right now and should become ready to download within few hours.

App Store

Yes, the app v. 1.2.1 has been accepted today, and is now available in the appstore !

Nice milestone. Hopefully there will be plenty of feedback from users soon.

And now it is time to finish some cool feature for the version 1.3 :-)

Testing

The testing of the app goes further, the counter of the test runs (car, bicycle) shows now 532 kilometers ~10 hours. In other words it simply works.





The app is not yet submitted to the appstore only because of some last extra feature which is going to be implemented this weekend.

The next big thing is New York City Marathon next week. Hans is going to run it with the 1.2 version of the app !

And the app is now also tested by Quintin who ran with it on Wednesday. Remember if you want to test it, just let me know.

Stress Test

After final gps reading test on the bike it is time now for stress tests.

Today I drove more then 130 kms with the app to check last improvements.

All the test runs are hidden and not visible in the statistics (they have also distance set to 0.1 km), but they can be still checked here:

15 km on the bike
45 km in the car
30 km the car
58 km the car

I did it !

Yesterday I ran my first half marathon. It was eye opening experience for me.
The crowd, the atmosphere, perfect weather. First 10 kms went so easy and fast that I haven't even noticed.

The application worked nicely, unfortunately after 12 kms there was a problem with a network, as a result, the second half was not available live. Here how it looked like on LookWhoIsRunning - Amsterdam Half Marathon

Hans did another test yesterday, he cycled and compared his "usual running gps device" with lookwhoisrunning app. The app worked nicely, during this test, and proved that the gps readings are accurate enough.

Boris did send me some feedback too. He did some comparison between his usual choice (Nike+) and Run Keeper and took a look at my app in the process.

Now it is time to update the To-do list, implement last improvements, and... run again :-)

2 days to go

The time has come, Today I got my number and a t-shirt. On Sunday I'm going to take on the challenge of the half marathon in Amsterdam. It will be also the final test of my app, before submitting it to the appstore next week.

My plan was not to run anymore before Sunday, but I just finished some work on the app, and will need to test it tomorrow. In other words I will need to run :-)