20 Mile Treadmill Run....

Super Cool Running App!

On Sunday, my long run was done on the treadmill.....and it was long.  Like, punch yourself in the face while banging your head against a brick wall kind of long.  I'm ok with the treadmill for 13 or 14 miles but 20....now that's long.   However, I did use a super cool app while I ran that I really loved.  It's called Fun Run Trainer.  Basically, you can run any route you can possibly imagine.  I pulled up the Boston Marathon of course!

It gives you an aerial view of the route which, in my opinion, really doesn't do you much good.  Street view would be way cooler.  But the part I just love is the elevation.  At the bottom of the screen on the left, you put in what speed you are running (and adjust as you run).  On the right, it gives you a count down clock letting you know when you will cross the finish line (which, obviously, changes as you change your speed).  Above that, it tells you what the elevation is at that point of the course.  So, for example, I was happily running along at a 1% incline when apparently we got to a fun little hill....it changed to 3.75%.  Oh for fun!  So I was able to virtually run the first 20 miles of the Boston Marathon.  So cool!!  Unfortunately, my treadmill doesn't have the ability to go to a negative incline so I didn't get to enjoy any of the downhill moments, I just set it at 0% but it was still pretty dang cool.  Check it out if you have an iPhone.  Here is a link to Cnet's review.

As for the long run, it was rather tortuous simply because it was on the treadmill but I was also having all kinds of right glut/hamstring issues which made me a bit nervous.  This weekend we are running 20 again (hopefully as a group and NOT on the treadmill!) so I'm trying to remain calm until after that run.  I can't believe it's almost March....Boston will be here before you know it!