{"id":87,"date":"2010-11-02T22:43:27","date_gmt":"2010-11-02T21:43:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.axelirriger.de\/blog\/2010\/11\/02\/applying-agile-for-running\/"},"modified":"2012-09-26T19:02:54","modified_gmt":"2012-09-26T19:02:54","slug":"applying-agile-for-running","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.axelirriger.de\/index.php\/2010\/11\/02\/applying-agile-for-running\/","title":{"rendered":"Applying Agile for running"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"shariff\" data-title=\"Applying Agile for running\" data-info-url=\"http:\/\/ct.de\/-2467514\" data-backend-url=\"https:\/\/www.axelirriger.de\/wp-content\/plugins\/shariff-sharing\/backend\/index.php\" data-temp=\"\/tmp\" data-ttl=\"60\" data-service=\"gftr\" data-services='[\"googleplus\",\"facebook\",\"twitter\",\"reddit\",\"info\"]' data-image=\"\" data-url=\"https:\/\/www.axelirriger.de\/index.php\/2010\/11\/02\/applying-agile-for-running\/\" data-lang=\"en\" data-theme=\"colored\" data-orientation=\"horizontal\"><\/div><p>What are the Agile practices? Well, in general being iterative about what you do and adjusting to your needs while performing the tasks. I know that this is a very rough description, but suitable.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>In the winter season I will attend a public duathlon (running, cycling, running) for which I need to improve in speed. For this, I chose an agile approach for my training!<\/p>\n<h3>What are my goals?<\/h3>\n<p>In general, I tend to run too fast. Although I very well know how to keep a steady pace, that one is typically too slow for a good time.<\/p>\n<p>To improve this, I chose to check my pace more regularly. Since I own an iPhone (although any GPS enabled device should work, given the right software), which I normally have along my training for background music, I looked for something usable.<\/p>\n<p>So, the general requirement is:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>regular pace checks<\/li>\n<li>non disturbing\/intrusive information on my speed<\/li>\n<li>preferable iPhone based<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3>The solution<\/h3>\n<p>During my (not too in-depth) research I found two applications which should suite my needs:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>runtastic pro (the homepage is <a href=\"http:\/\/runtastic.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>)<\/li>\n<li>runmeter (the homepagae is <a href=\"www.abvio.com\/runmeter\/\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Both support tracking and route following, alongside with pace informations. What makes both stand apart from the rest of the running apps is that both support speech based informations.<\/p>\n<p>I chose runmeter for my training, basically because I have not found any information on what exactly runtastic will voice. The runmeter app had some 20 metrics announced in the App Store, which I found promising \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n<p>Indeed does runmeter fit my training cycle very well. During training, I have my music running. I configured runmeter (running in background mode) to pause the iPod every 250 meters to tell me minutes\/kilometer, time elapsed and kilometers left for the track.<\/p>\n<h3>How runmeter helps me<\/h3>\n<p>The runmeter-based feedback does help me because I very quickly get feedback on my speed, which I then can adjust. That helps me tremendously in keeping a considerable pace.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What are the Agile practices? Well, in general being iterative about what you do and adjusting to your needs while performing the tasks. I know that this is a very rough description, but suitable.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[32,43,48,49,50,65],"class_list":["post-87","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-allgemeines","tag-iphone","tag-pace","tag-runmeter","tag-running","tag-runtastic","tag-training"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.axelirriger.de\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.axelirriger.de\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.axelirriger.de\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.axelirriger.de\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.axelirriger.de\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=87"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.axelirriger.de\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":127,"href":"https:\/\/www.axelirriger.de\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87\/revisions\/127"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.axelirriger.de\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=87"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.axelirriger.de\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=87"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.axelirriger.de\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=87"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}