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April 26, 2011 06:10 pm GMT

Runens Social Running App Will Let You Train With Friends, Strangers

As we all know, long distance runners are lonely. You're out there on your own, feet hitting the pavement, strange birds pecking at your hair as you scramble up and down alien streets at dawn or dusk. It's good to have friends out there.That's the goal of this new iPhone app, called Runens, a goal that, I feel, so far falls short. You set a goal level - 5K, 10K, Ultramarathon - and then "share" your runs with with the app. It ranks you according to miles run and speed and you can have "hood fights" which are battles between neighborhoods. The goal of this app is similar to JoggingBuddy.com' - essentially the socialization of a usually stoic, solitary endeavor - but, obviously, this thing is app-based and is, thus far, a bit barren in the social aspect.

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