A couple of weeks ago runtastic welcomed a film crew from Microsoft at our headquarters in Linz, Austria. After two full days of filming we compiled information on what we do and how we do it. Also, we made a video featuring Günther Weidlinger, the fastest Austrian marathon runner who qualified for the London Olympic Games 2012 using the runtastic Windows Phone 7 App during his training.

In order to give you a greater insight into our company, runtastic invites you to view the following video. You will learn how team runtastic works, about our apps features and why runtastic is your perfect personal running and fitness coach. Explore the wolrd of the mobile app development and look behind the scenes of how runtastic develops and designs our products.

Also Günther Weidlinger, Austrias fastest marathoner who qualified for the 2012 London Olympic Games on October 30, 2011, with a marathon time of 2 hours, 12 minutes and 23 seconds in Frankfurt. He uses the runtastic Windows Phone 7 App throughout his training to track his routes, get feedback and stay up-to-date about his performance. The runtastic voice coach along with the runtastic live cheering give his family, friends and fans the ability to root him on and push him to his personal best. This live-tracking and cheering feature of runtastic is important for athletes like Günther because he can stay in touch whith his fans who cheer him on during his training sessions and trainings.

After finishing a training session, Günther analyzes his session with his coach directly on the runtastic Windows Phone 7 App or on the runtastic fitness website. For runtastic the work with professional athletes is very important to continue to put out the strongest apps to help benefit our users. This is the reason why the runtastic apps are the ideal sports companion for beginners, intermediate and pro athletes.

Here you can find the direct links to the videos:

runtastic video – http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=41ueeUOsDWI

Günther Weidlinger video – http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DpGQB9G_mT0

The new versions of runtastic Windows Phone 7 (Lite + Pro) are finally both ready for download (for a complete changelog see below).

Just to point out 2 new nice features here. It is now possible to add sessions manually (for example you did a strength training for 1 hour and 15 minutes). Therefore we have also added indoor sport types like Strength Training, Yoga, Ergometer, Treadmill and many others to choose from.

The app is now available in 5 languages: English, French, German, Italian and Spanish. We have also added 3 additional voice feedback languages (French, Italian and Spanish) to the existing Julia (English) and Vanessa (German) voices. You can change to these 3 additional voices in the Voice Feedback settings page. Tap on a voice you want to switch to. If you haven’t downloaded the voice yet, you can do it by clicking on Download in the popup. You only have to download the voices once. After downloading you can switch between the voices as many times as you like without downloading additional data. (Note: Voice feedback feature is only enabled in PRO version)

Here is the complete changelog:

New Features:
* Add session manually
* New indoor sport types
* App is now available in 5 languages: English, French, German, Italian and Spanish
* Download sport sessions from runtastic.com onto your phone
* Edit user data
* Automatic sharing of sessions to Facebook and Twitter
* Share sessions via email
* [PRO only] Voice Feedback available in 5 languages: EN, DE, ES, FR, IT

Improvements:
* Improved GPS accuracy and tracking
* Improved calories calculation
* Improved performance of history page
* Improved style of small popups
* Improved performance of progressbars
* Switching to map will now zoom to fit
* Session history context menu now has an upload session entry
* Smaller font in Voice Feedback settings
* Some improvements under the hood

Bugfixes:
* Fixed a bug where after a password change the upload and other things wouldn’t work anymore
* Fixed incorrect pause calculation
* Start live tracking message box won’t be shown after resuming session
* Follow user icon on map will now show correct state
* Various other bugfixes

That is what we´re looking for. runtastic in the WP7 charts on the first place.

Unfortunately the WP7 runtasitc PRO app hasn´t been approved yet, because there are some formulars are missing :-/

Please be patient, the PRO app should be available within the next days.

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