fitness

🏃‍♂️ Approaching the time of day when, having run into work this morning, I debate if I should just take the train back. The return run seemed like a much better idea this morning

🏊‍♂️🚴🏃‍♂️ The Guelph Lake Olympic Triathlon was great fun, though challenging. Big thanks to my daughter for her expert race crewing.

A map displays the route of the Guelph Lake Olympic Triathlon covering 46.43 km in 2 hours and 44 minutes with 2,581 kcal burned, passing through locations like Armstrong Mills and Speedsid, along with the date Sat, Jun 20.

RunnerCast is a great, single purpose app that tells me one thing: how is the weather for my run?

Two smartphone screens display weather forecast details for Toronto, including temperature, wind, and precipitation information for current and upcoming days. Taken from my recent use of RunnerCast

Prior to RunnerCast, I’d open up the Weather app on my phone and squint at various metrics. Now, I’m presented with a straightforward set of colours on a timeline and declarative sentence about if I should go now. I also appreciate that I can tweak my tolerance for temperature, precipitation, and other weather features to match my preferences.

Another helpful feature is that you can add in upcoming events (like the half marathon shown in the screenshot) to start preparing mentally for whatever is coming up on race day.

I’m fond of apps like these: well designed, specific, and useful.

🏃‍♂️ Added another event to this year’s race calendar. My son is going to join me for this one, which will be fun. His runs have maxed out at about 7km to date, so he has some training to do. I need to convince him that he can’t just sprint the whole thing.

Email confirmation that I’ve signed up for the Toronto Half Marathon

🔗 Komoot’s Apple Watch App Gets Offline Maps & Routing: Hand-on!

In arguably one of the biggest bits of news for outdoor-focused Apple Watch owners in years, Komoot just announced true offline mapping and routing for their Apple Watch app. Up until now, their app required some sort of connectivity, notably to the phone, in order to have offline maps/routing.

This looks quite promising. I’ve been using the WorkOutDoors app for offline maps, but Komoot looks much easier.