This week, I signed up for a 10km marathon in Banff, which is sadly not taking place until June so I won’t be able to tell you about that during this class, but what I will talk about today is my experience training for it with RunGO. RunGO is an app to help make fun routes around your own areas or any area you want to explore. If you don’t want to make a route, that is also no problem because you can use routes that others have made.
There are also verified runs, for example, the Depot 5k or even the marathon runs in case you want to check out the route for example, for my Banff marathon. I am just doing simple runs, bringing up my cardio start at 3km and trying to make my way to 15km in a single run before June. An alternative to this is also Strava, which I recently found out about and might make a shift to that as my friends use it and everything is more fun with friends and a little competition.
I was initially attracted to RunGO when I was in high school and moved to a new neighborhood, it helped me a lot with figuring out where to run and what paths are fun. The voice prompts are also cool, a GPS but for running. I had stopped using it after highschool and decided to learn to use it again for this upcoming marathon. My favourite runs are always around the lakes in my area, but the snow just kills it, the routes become slippery and the scenery feels the same throughout the whole run, purely white.
