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Re: Sunsets At Pier 60 - 2012 #4 Reviews

guest — Sat, 04 Aug 2012 03:52:41 GMT

Very organized, extremely helpful volunteers, great shirts, nice night, nice attendees. Definitely looking forward to doing this again.

Re: 33rd Annual Kiwanis Morton Plant Mease Midnight Run Reviews

guest — Wed, 04 Jul 2012 04:44:28 GMT

A wonderfully organized and fun event. This was the first event my children attended with me and they both had a great time. The volunteers were all exceptionally polite and there was no confusion about anything. Whoever the two women doing the announcing were, they we awesome. Funny and entertaining, yet secretly providing instructions and help.

This is definitely an event we'll be attending again and it's gotten my children excited about doing another event asap.

Re: Android running app

guest — Sat, 30 Jun 2012 01:03:28 GMT

I've tried a bunch of various apps and their partner web sites and speaking personal preference of all the ones I've tried, Runtastic is by far my favorite. The close second to that one is RunMeter. After the quality of those two, they all start to seem the same.

Runtastic will speak your stats to you based on either a time or distance setting YOU choose. You also get to choose exactly what stats it speaks to you. Runtastic will allow you to take pictures and then will sync those pictures to the time/location you took them during your run. Runtastic will provide live tracking if you desire, meaning people can watch your route and stats as you run/cycle. The Runtastic site has a good social aspect to it and both the site and the app are very good as making backups of your data, allowing you to export or import as necessary, etc.

I'd classify myself as a beginning runner, but I've tried a dozen fitness tracking sites and nearly as many apps and Runtastic is what I found I liked the best (so much so I paid for the Gold membership - but it's quite useful w/o doing so).

Other alternatives.. RunMeter, MapMyRun, RunKeeper (sorry, not a fan)..

And if you're looking for fun on your run - check out ZombiesRun.

Edit: After reading your post again, your indication of being bored while running - I second my own recommendation that you check out ZombiesRun. It's not everyone's cup of tea, but it's different and adds variety at least.

Re: I Love "Father's" Day 2012 Reviews

guest — Sat, 16 Jun 2012 16:19:26 GMT

Extremely disappointed at the false advertising of receiving a shirt pre-registering for this race. Regardless of what it says here on Active.com or what was said in email, there's no shirt.

Post-race Edit: I happened to see what I guess were a previous year's shirts for this race and it annoyed me even further that they went with cheesy socks. Hint: Shirts are great advertisements for your run. The logo you have on previous year shirts is pretty cool. The socks were cheesy looking and I'll never wear them in public. Advertising opportunity lost. Maybe Newton helped pay (or paid) for the run, and that's understandable. But I'd imagine you could have put other advertisers on a shirt just as well. After seeing what the previous shirts looked like, I can say I'd have been wearing that often. The socks? Never.

The course itself was nice and was organized well enough with clear direction as to where to go and such. But I agree with another reviewer, the overall organization seemed lacking. The cards seemed a bad idea, and trying to understand where to turn those cards in at since different people gave different answers was annoying. Watching people rudely and physically butt in front of others at the finish line just to snatch a better numbered card was pathetic.

I'll be hesitant to participate in any further events from this crew without making sure to read the fine print and verifying the details before signing up. The t-shirt 'misprint' is extremely annoying and unprofessional. You have paying customers, it's your job to get it right.

Re: Clearwater Halfathon, 5-Miler, Fitness Walk Reviews

guest — Mon, 25 Jan 2010 02:58:02 GMT

This was my first halfathon and it was great. Parking was great, volunteers were great, medals are great.. I'm not too crazy about the shirt color, but they're still ok. I'll definitely be doing this one again, and it's given me the bug to want to do others as well.