Tonight I ditched my (br)ipod and used my droid as my music player and a handy little app called “my tracks” to automagically record my run metrics. I know there are other smartphone apps out there that do similar tracking, the nike +, RunKeeper, LogaJog, etc. but this is the first variant I’ve used and I’ve fallen in love with it.

Before I step out the door, I load my tracks, tell it to begin recording and when I return I tell it to stop. Upon completing my recording I’m presented with the option to save my data to google docs. The app plots total time, moving time, average speed, minimum and maximum speed, elevation change, distance and will even create a google map. This is much better than manual tracking and I can see small improvements in my run times by looking at the data collected over the past two weeks.