B.A.A. Racing App

I thought it was great, I could follow the two runners I was interested in real time. Almost felt like I was there, and was able to chat with spectators who were onsite and let them know when they might catch a brief glimpse of our runner. I don’t know if the screen freezes were the fault of my equipment, the App, or if the runners, decided to take a pee stop. The breaks were annoying, but eventually the runners would teleport to another spot further up the course. I liked the banner notifications, but wish there had been a few more. It would nice to have it overlaid on Google Earth so we could feel like a drone overhead.

Overall this is an amazingly helpful app to track your runner to find them. One improvement would be if you could pick a spot along the marathon route (i.e., where you are waiting for them) and set alerts to that spot vs the half way, 1 mile from finishing and the finishing line since 99% of spectators won’t be able to be at the finish line. That addition would be amazingly helpful to spectators, it overall this app is fantastic.

I have a lot of friends who run marathons. So I’ve used many different marathon apps. This app really differentiates itself from others in the way that you can track multiple runners easily on a tracked athletes dashboard page. They are sorted by estimated finish time with real time statistics being displayed and dynamically updated automatically like a stock symbol ticker. Very cool!