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1 Pa ge 1 o f 6 t G E # 6 10 Best Running Apps By John Corpuz, FEBRUARY 12, :34 PM Best Running Apps A smartphone's built-in sensors make it a great platform for a variety of running apps that can track your speed, distance traveled, calories burned, and even map your route. From high-end exercise apps with dedicated training plans to fun, gamified tools, check out our 10 favorite running apps below. Runkeeper (Android, ios, Free) Patent Owner adidas AG - Exhibit Page 1 of 6

your speed, distance traveled, calories burned, and even map your route.

2 Pa ge 2 o f 6 A perennial favorite among runners, Runkeeper (Android, ios) uses your phone's GPS to track your running, cycling, hiking and other distance activities. The app records your pace, distance, total exercise time, calories burned and other useful metrics, while also allowing you to take and tag pictures on the go. Users can go freeform, or download and follow popular running routes. You can measure your progress and workout history, as well as sync with numerous other apps and services and receive detailed reports of your tracked activity. MORE:BestFitnessTrackers2014 Run with Map My Run (Android, ios, Free) Run with Map My Run (Android, ios) is Map My Fitness's own take on the run tracking app, taking advantage of your phone's GPS and other sensors in order to track and map your running course, time, speed and total distance traveled. The app displays displaying both your real-time stats and your end-of-run totals. Useful extras include support for a variety of fitness trackers and heart rate sensors, Android Wear support and nutrition tracking. A premium subscription provides voice coaching and location sharing, and removes ads. Patent Owner adidas AG - Exhibit Page 2 of 6

Users can go freeform, or download and follow popular running routes.

3 Pa ge 3 o f 6 Runtastic (Android, ios, Free) Runtastic (Android, ios) uses GPS to track and map your distance exercises, monitoring time, speed and distance, and plots your route in real-time. A personal exercise diary keeps track of your running metrics, and your routes can also be viewed in a Google Earth-style view. A configurable dashboard, detailed graphs of your exercise information, progress sharing over social networks and numerous training plans round out this neat exercise app. UP by Jawbone (Android, ios, Free) Jawbone's latest UP fitness app (Android, ios) is a neat piece of work, regardless of whether or not you've got a Jawbone fitness tracker. The UP app connects with your Jawbone UP fitness tracker or your smartphone's built-in sensors in order to help you track and interpret a variety of fitness metrics such as steps taken, calories burned and activity intensity. It also allows for manual entry of food and drink tracking, as well as sleep quantity. Another standout feature is how UP integrates with a variety of fitness apps and hardware. You won't get the same mapping information as GPS apps, but as a general fitness tracking app, UP packs a whole lot of tools and metrics that an avid runner and fitness buff will find useful. PUMATRAC (Android, ios, Free) Patent Owner adidas AG - Exhibit Page 3 of 6

A configurable dashboard, detailed graphs of your exercise information, progress sharing over social networks and numerous training plans round out this neat exercise app.

4 Pa ge 4 o f 6 Pumatrac (Android, ios) throws in some cute extras along with the standard bevy of run tracking tools. First, the basics: Pumatrac records the distance you've run, maps your run track, records calories burned, etc. But Pumatrac also records a whole slew of other things, such as weather, time of day, month and more. Then it boils it all down into a run score to describe the quality of your run, which you can view over time and compare with other runners. Additionally, Pumatrac generates other personalized insights based on your running behavior, noting whether you run further when listening to rock or metal, Fridays, Mondays, weekends and more. Nike+ Running (Android, ios, Free) Nike may have stopped developing the FuelBand, but the company still makes a mean running app in Nike+ Running (Android, ios). Whether on a treadmill, trail or track, the app accurately records your pace, distance traveled and time, complete with audio feedback and a route map. The app also comes with a host of gamified social elements such as sharing runs, achievements and the option to challenge your friends to beat your time or distance run. A neat feature is the ability to load a "Power Song" of your choice, for when you need some extra mid-run oomph. Strava Running and Cycling (Android, ios, Free) Patent Owner adidas AG - Exhibit Page 4 of 6

But Pumatrac also records a whole slew of other things, such as weather, time of day, month and more.

5 Pa ge 5 o f 6 In addition to being a top-notch running tracker, Strava Running and Cycling (Android, ios) adds some pretty neat competitive and gamified features to the usual run-tracking recipe. The app records your running speed, distance traveled, time and course taken, but also combines it with leaderboards, achievements, and challenges. Strava supports a variety of running trackers, in addition to Android Wear. Couch-to-5K (Android, ios, Free) Active.com's Couch-to-5K (Android, ios) is designed to gently ease couch potatoes and casual runners and joggers into running 5K courses over time. Users are provided a training course of 20 to 30 minutes, three times a week over nine weeks, to build up a runner's stamina from wheezing wreck to race-winner. Users can choose from four virtual coaches, complete with accompanying audio cues to help motivate them on the run, with automatic or manual logging for easily keep track of your progress. MORE:Android W ear vs.pebblesteel ismoothrun Pro (ios, $5.99) ismoothrun Pro is a popular premium third-party run tracker app that can connect and sync with a variety of devices and run tracking services such as Runkeeper and Nike+. Designed and optimized for the iphone 5 and ios 7, the app takes advantage of the iphone's built-in sensors and pedometer to accurately record time, distance, location, pace, altitude and a wealth of other variables. The app has support for running and walking, interval training and even "ghost running" against your previously recorded runs. Patent Owner adidas AG - Exhibit Page 5 of 6

Strava supports a variety of running trackers, in addition to Android Wear. Couch-to-5K (Android, ios, Free) Active.

6 10 Best Running Apps Page 6 of 6 Zombies, Run! (Android, ios, $3.99) Now in its third season, Zombies, Run!(Android, ios) is a run tracker app that gamifies your exercise routine by adding a zombie apocalypse narrative to your workouts. You are a Runner, evading zombies (ever present in the ambient sound that plays in your headphones) while trying to fulfill your mission goals. The story unfolds over a series of 30-minutelong episodes, with users accompanied by a narrative story trackand spurred to sprint by the sound of approaching zombies. As you complete runs, you gather items and achievements that can be used to develop a home base. Purchasing the app unlocks the whole first season, with additional seasons available as in-app purchases. 8 Apps for Tracking Your Teens 10 Best Brain Training Apps 10 Best Android Launchers 4/29/2015 Patent Owner adidas AG - Exhibit Page 6 of 6

You are a Runner, evading zombies (ever present in the ambient sound that plays in your headphones) while trying to fulfill your mission goals.

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