As part of Janathon I need to use runningfreeonline. Which I am. But I'm really not enjoying it. The site scores high for being free, and does have many features. In fact it seems to have most, if not all of the features you can think of. And therein lies one of my issues. It is so, SO busy that I get lost in it. When I bought my Garmin they had a site called MotionBased which was also a bit busy - not as bad as RFO, but still not a pleasure to use. Garmin seem to have learnt from their over enthusiastic mistake and their new offering, garminconnect, is quite nice. As it dailymile, which is where I typically check-in. My bro uses runkeeper, and that is pretty cute.
So come on RFO, please streamline and give us a few nice big friendly buttons. Love the masses of info, but not at the expense of ease of use. Then there is the miles-kilometres thing. If I map a route in miles then log a run over that route I want to share it in kilometres. In Aus we like our kilometres and bigger numbers make me feel as if I've run further (ha!) Please get the maths right. Or at least try some maths. Today my choice of km over miles seems to have simply replaced the unit appendage and left the number alone...everyone will think I'm slacking.
But hey, that probably doesn't matter now I've written all that. I'm likely on a Janathon blacklist - no prize for him! Ah well..In my defense, I've only linked to RFO, not the other, competing sites. Hey, it's only december, maybe no one will notice.
Right, with that off my chest, here is the news. Today I did one of my stock runs, a loop of the CBD taking in the piers to the west of the bridge and then the tourist draw cards - under the bridge, around the opera house (I am sure some joker will rename it the Oprah House while her majestic chatshow queenness is in town) then through the botanical gardens and back to the office. Fabulous day for it, humidity down, temp still about 26 and clear blue sky. The only real challenge was dodging Orpah's disciples, who as far as I could tell where getting tickets and then getting interviewed. All seems very strange to me, but a balding, sweating, huffing little bloke out in the heat of the day is probably strange to most of them, so honours-even.
2 comments:
Hey, Janathon's a fun thing, no one gets blacklisted!
I had to have some form of tracking everyone's exercise, and Running Free Online seemed to do the job.
Last year, each blog was read each day and everyone's exercise logged manually but there isn't anyone willing to do that again as it was such a long, laborious chore, as you can probably imagine!
no worries, I didn't think I'd be banned :-) RFO just tries to do too much, imho. Mind you, as long as you don't stray too far form the defaults it seems to work. Reading every blog would be a chore...I know how much I ca waffle on some days - hahaha
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