Really enjoyed my run today, but after checking it on my app, I got annoyed by running apps in general. Right now I'm following a plan to generally increase my weekly mileage. Yesterday and today I had workouts planned for 38 mins at an easy pace. I started each workout in the same place right outside my house. Both days I stopped the workout within a few seconds of the app telling me the workout ended. So far so good. Today, I was following the exact same route as yesterday, and I hear the 3 minutes left voice prompt. I was feeling good so I picked up the pace just a little to see if I could get just a bit further than yesterday. Nothing crazy, just having some fun. And I did, I got may .1-.2 miles further than yesterday! Yay! Right? Except my app is telling me that today's run was .2 miles SHORTER than yesterday's.
It's a little thing that is probably just gps error, but it's annoying. It means the pace data is completely off. According to the app (MapMyRun, btw) I ran faster yesterday than today, even though I clearly ran further in the same amount of time today.
Bah!
Out of curiosity I exported both workouts to Runkeeper and it seem to recalculate the distance and correctly identifies the second run as longer and faster than the first one.