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Welcome to the sixth episode of the Geek Runner podcast for Oct 12th, 2011 featuring Bill Deys, Edward Platero and Robert Raymond

Training Reports

-Rob. Bib number 17769, but you won’t see him, because he can’t run it.
-Ed Gonna get a one last good run in before Sunday. Bib Number 10307 if you want to follow along in the app.
- Bill taper for the race, couple of great 5k’s yesterday and today. Bib number 19089 if you want to follow along in the app.

Running News

• FitBit Ultra
• Woman Gives Birth after running the Chicago Marathon
• Garmin ANT+ iPhone adapter soon to be released

• Apple updates the iPod nano to work with Nike+ without a dongle 2010 & 2011 models

• Abvio’s Fitness App Triplets Get iOS 5 Notifications, ANT+ Support

Discussion

• Pre race week and day.

Picks of the Week

• Ed’s pick is Tweet Speaker
• Rob’s pick is Full fitness
• Bill’s pick is Geeks in Running Shoes
• PodRunner

Upcoming Races

• Detroit Free Press Marathon Oct 16
• Niagara Falls Marathon Oct 23
• Halloween Haunting Oct 30

Listen to the show to get the coupon code to get 20% off orders on Race Photos by Andrew Berdan Photography

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Theme music is Remember The Name (Run Beat Remix) (Instrumental Version)
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I’ve been thinking for a while about how to take my running to the next level.

I finished my first race about a month ago, I’m happy with my results, aim was 2:59 and I hit 2:45. My plan is to stick to half marathons until next fall and go for the Niagara Falls Marathon. To get through this year I plan to run the Springbank Road Races Half in September and the Half at the Detroit Free Press Marathon in October.

I haven’t been happy with the programs either RunCoach or SmartCoach put out. I’m sure they work, I’m just no comfortable with the variables I put in and how the program looks. Then I remembered RunKepper had a paid FitnessClass feature. As a Pro member I get half off the $19.99. Even at $9.99 it’s a bit steep but I love what the guys at RunKepper do so I figure it’s worth a shot.

I’ve singed up for the Half Marathon Time Goal Sub 2:30 program. That should be more then achievable goal for me.  I’m only one run in so I’ll post some updates throughout to keep you posted on how I feel about the program. At first glance they’ve done a great job integrating the classes into the app. I’ve not used RunKeeper since I stopped interval training in the walk to run program. They didn’t have the classes built in then and there are walk to run programs available. It seams like a good way to both get the intervals programmed for you and the social features should help keep you running.

I am sad that I’m leaving a few features in RunMeter that I’ve come to love. The Announcements is the big one but small things like posting to DailyMile will probably bug me constantly. I hope RunKepper will at least add the DailyMile integration. I know they want to be the social network instead of sending the traffic to DailyMile but it already has such a huge community across many applications and platforms it seams like a no brainer. I think this is a big oversight on RunKeepers part. Focus on the app and the classes, both the places they make the money!

Anyways, stay tuned for future updates on the program and the app.