Felt Tip Blog Run apps update

We have three new things for the holidays! First is the new release of Run Half Marathon, a 13-week GPS-based running app for half marathon training. And second is that our Run 5k and Run 10k have been updated with GPS support to show distance and pace. All of these require iOS 6, so you might need to update your device's system software.I spent a lot of time fine-tuning the GPS (Core Location actually), which is especially hard in the urban canyons of Manhattan. I got a pretty good GPS signal along the rivers and and in the larger parks, but along the city streets, the trees and buildings can get in the way of GPS. Each location fix comes with an accuracy level, and the better the accuracy, the more I trust the location, so the app smoothes the location track based on that. There's even more smoothing applied to the pace information, so you might have to run a few hundred feet before it settles on the new pace.I also had to deal with some GPS location fixes coming in out of order, so the timestamps would sometimes jump backwards in time. But I think overall the distance and pace smoothing works better than most apps out there. The Core Location stuff is in both apps, but I'm showing maps only in the Half Marathon app since I didn't want to clutter up the 5k and 10k apps.The other big change is that I'm now using the iOS Sharing sheets for Twitter and Facebook, so you don't have to log in separately to these apps. This should make for a more seamless experience using Run 5k and Run 10k. And you can post your pace and distance info now.We haven't updated our web site for the new versions since they came out so quickly. I wasn't expecting iTunes Connect to be kept open until today. They finally closed it today, but they approved our updates just before they did so. So we'll be updating our web site in the new year.Happy holidays!-Lucius