I've got an App for that...

Weather: Rainy and cold
Activity: Laps through the wood (trail run), 5.8km, 500ft ascent
Today's Tune: Fireflies, Owl City
Comment: Chocolate is bad, chocolate is bad

Working all day today and I'm shattered but needed to do another 5km run so set out as soon as I got home to do a few laps of the wee wood next to the house. Ended up doing near 6km. Felt ok. Nothing special. No rays of dazzling brilliance or ethereal moments amongst the trees - just a sweaty, steady plod. Was glad of the rain to cool me down.

I used the Runmeter app for the iPhone this time. I'm an iPhone App geek and I freely admit it. I have several apps for running, cycling, hiking and oooh, just about every activity you can imagine. I had been using Runkeeper Pro - my iPhone is also my iPod so don't really carry the Garmin watch now (unless away for hours as the GPS on an iPhone sucks battery power like crazy) - but I changed the settings before I set out tonight to alert me after every km with pace report (instead of updating me after every 5 mins) but after a while, it hadn't said anything so checked and it wasn't even recording! Tried again on one more lap but still no, so switched to Runmeter for the first time. Its basic but you don't really need much! Only thing I miss is the option to download your results to the website that Runkeeper allows you to do but entering it manually is only 5 mins extra typing I guess!

 Heres the spiel from the makers:

• Runmeter is iPhone-centric. No Web site logins, no uploads, no ads. Your iPhone has all the data you want, right when you want it.

• Runmeter continually records your time, location, distance, elevation, and pace — for runs up to six hours on an iPhone 3G, or nine hours on a iPhone 3GS.

• See your results on maps, graphs, and calendars, and organized by routes and activities. Know how much  distance you've run by day, week, month, and year.

• Compete against your previous runs along a route. See your virtual competition on a map and in graphs. Each run is ranked as best, better, median, worse, and worst.

• Send Google Map links of your runs and routes using email or Twitter. During your run, hear tweets from family, coaches, and friends spoken using text-to-speech technology. Export runs in GPX, KML, and CSV (I don't do this. I run to keep fit but mostly to get a bit of peace and quiet. I don't want Big Brother along with me ta!)

Right, I gotta go - my turn to make supper for us all. Unfortunately I don't have an App for that. Yet..