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Ghost Trax
Race Yourself, Beat Your Ghost!
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Race Yourself, Beat Your Ghost!
20 followers
This is a new app taking the idea of racing your ghost in video games and applying it to real life fitness exercises like running, walking and cycling. The app gives you real time feedback against your chosen ghost on a chosen route and shows you a live delta as well as capturing your progress at 12 splits along the route, showing you per split timings and overall progress against your Ghost. Think olympic splits but on your watch against you, or your friends ghosts.
Raced my old 5k ghost on the wrist today and seeing the live delta tick up or down each split was way more motivating than I expected, the 12 split breakdown makes pushing through the middle miles actually fun.
@lyasl9qo love this!!!! thank you so much! and I know that feeling, I knocked 2.5 mins off my 5k in testing, I didn't want to loose against my ghost! the hard part is capturing this feeling for marketing!
Love the Olympic splits idea for solo runs, that's such a cool way to keep pushing. One thing I'd love is the option to set a pace target halfway through if I'm falling behind my ghost, so the watch can buzz and tell me exactly how much I need to speed up per km to still catch it.
@ygensi1982 Hey! thank you for the comment and the feedback! I've added a pacing version in version 1.8 just in testing but that average pace needed to catch up or beat your ghost is a cool idea! I'll see if I can work it through!
honestly this is a really fun idea, the splits comparison sounds genuinely motivating. one thing though, it would be great if you could set the ghost pace to something more specific than just a previous attempt, like letting me dial in a target pace per kilometer and have it generate a ghost based on that. basically a pace target mode for days when you just want to hit a number rather than race yourself.
@ferdivppa thank you for the feedback and comments! I've got pacing coming in v1.8 which should be released shortly!
The live split deltas on the watch are super motivating, way better than waiting to check the phone after the run. Already itching to race my own ghost from last week on the hill loop.
@arin1841226 haha yep it works doesn't it!!! are you running or using it for cycling?
Blown away by your engagement so far everyone! thank you so much!