14 DAY TRIAL // Berbie has released the latest version of its route planning software for Mac OS X, TrailRunner. The new release adds half a dozen changes and is available for immediate download as of today. The application is free, but will work for a limited three-month period.
TrailRunner is aimed at sports dealing with long-distance traveling, such as running, biking, hiking, and inline-skating. The software is able to determine how long or how effective one's workouts are, and what routes work best for them.
According to the app's makers, the new version improves default naming for workouts and route, while fixing an accuracy problem when merging tracks and some web services. When merging a route into the document that already has a perfect geographical match, the existing route is being kept and no duplicate is being merged, as a change included with TrailRunner 1.9.312. The new version also improves selected track merge. Lastly, Berbie claims to have “removed this crap feature in preferences to set a weather url. TrailRunner now automatically loads the temperature for the a routes region if the diary entry is added same day,” the developers say.
“There might be several motivations you start running,” says Berbie. “Just to get fresh air several times a week, to lose weight or to exercise as a semi professional for races and honor. Either motivation needs goals you define in a training plan and methods to check up your progress, like measuring your burned calories and weight loss, your improved heart-rate, your speed and ranking in a competition or just being able to master a marathon in a given time.”
TrailRunner is beta software. All beta releases of TrailRunner (including the one available today) will run for about three months, the company says. The latest version of TrailRunner - available below - requires Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard. Tiger users may grab their own version of the app using the same download link.