Nowadays it is not common anymore going out and see kids running or riding their bikes, instead they are sitting in front of the TV or PC all day long, reason why 30% of children are overweight; here is where runtastic comes to action, helping children to exercise in a funny way, that they enjoy, and that is giving them the motivation to start moving, but this is not the only reason why our users like runtastic so much…

Talking about motivation, 54% of consumers claim motivation is their key reason for not exercising; with runtastic you get tons of motivation and with all its other amazing features nothing will stop you to put on your sport shoes and start moving!

Enjoy the nature! Breathe the fresh air! Feel the sun in your skin! Reach your goals! 76% of sportsmen workout without guidance or at home, runtastic will lead you to turn your goals into accomplishments; it will also encourage you to go out and practice outdoor sports, with its GPS tracking, geotagging,…

And this is only the beginning, making a healthier world is our goal, start the action with runtastic like all of our users did and stop being part of this statistics!!!

If you told Anke 20 months ago, that she will do sports several times a week and have fun with it – she would not have believed it.

But our power user managed to overcome her weaker self with the runtastic PRO app and the runtastic gold membership. She mutated from a lazy couch potato into an enthusiastic athlete. Today, Anke loves cycling and nordic walking several times a week. Overall, she completed more than 3.000 km activities in about 20 months and as a result she burnt a lot of calories.

Ankes success story started when she was waiting for her new car and had to reach her work by bike.  Every day, she used an iPhone and the runtastic PRO app during her sports activities and was fascinated how exactly she could track her activities. Soon Anke became addicted to kilometers, calories and pace.

Anke is a runtastic gold member and she really loves the runtastic gold features, especially the weekly fitness reports, statistics and analysis about her performance. The comparisons of the last weeks in the fitness reports give Anke an extra push to improve her performance and to reach new records. The fast growing number of kilometers, calorie consumption and altitude motivates her every day and she feels satisfied and really good.

With 43 years, Anke participated in the Woman’s Run  in Köln and reached in her age category/discipline place 26. Training has become an important part of her life and she cannot imagine a week, she does not work out.

We wish Anke all the best for the future and still much fun & motivation with the runtastic PRO app and gold membership!

Go, go, go Anke!

View Ankes profile here: http://runtastic.com/en/users/mos-mos

Just a quick post to tell you that the new runtastic iPhone Version 2.2 is ready for download in the AppStore. We have included a new feature which was requested by our users that will not pause the iPod music when a voice feedback is played. You can activate this feature in the voice feedback settings by disabling “Pause Music”.

Here is the complete changelog:
✔ Voice feedback can now be also mixed with music instead of only pausing music

✔ Improved graph performance dramatically
✔ Improved startup speed
✔ Improved calories calculation for swimming and biking

Fixed:
✔ Additional info dialog was not updating values on server
✔ Renamed strolling back to walking
✔ Session was paused to early when battery was low
✔ Camera controls in geotagging view were not clickable
✔ Fixed problem when resuming a live tracking session

The spanish blog “iPhone World” with the latest news, tricks, apps, games, … about iPhone, Android an much more, tested runtastic PRO and wrote an amazing review about it… train like them with runtatic PRO!…
Here the link to the review:

http://www.iphoneworld.com.es/2011/03/runtastic-ponte-en-forma-con-el-iphone.html

Yesterday we announced our newest version for iPhone, Android and BlackBerry, but today we´re really proud to announce that runtastic is available for an other great mobile operating system.

runtastic Windows Phone 7 app

We invested a lot of time in design and usability before we started with implementation. We think the runtastic WP7 app is one of the best tracking apps availalble in the whole market place. Also the runtastic PRO version will be available in a few days.

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Download runtastic LITE WP7 here…

Features runtastic lite:

• Tracking of Distance, Duration, Calories, Pace, Altitude, …
• Working with Bing maps
• Training Diary
• Facebook Connect and Facebook sharing
• Twitter sharing

Features runtastic PRO:

• All features from lite version
• Voice feedback (English & German)
• Live tracking
• Cheering during a live tracking session

We´re still working on the next version with some big updates…

We´re looking forward to get first reviews from you and hope that we can provide the best fitness app for the WP7 right now!