Couch to 5K

One app I immediately thought about when I got my vivoactive was a Couch to 5K app. I had it pretty close to working (with still a lot left on my todo list) but I lost interest because I'm not much of a runner so I'm not sure I would want to attempt the program again. Basically I was writing the app just for the experience of writing a Connect IQ app that may never get used. It would be an interesting app for somebody to create if there is interest in such an app.

Some of the plans I had for it:

• Start an activity when beginning
  
• Vibrate and signal a lap each time you hit another segment.
  
• Program could be based on time or distance (there are plans for both)
  
• Include a 5 minute warmup (maybe allow it to be adjusted) and continue recording time for the activity after the last segment.
  
• Allow for sensors like GPS, etc.
  
• Show segment time, total time, segment distance, total distance, etc. Maybe have a way to not include the warmup distance so you know how far you actually ran.
  

I have used such an app before on my iPhone (another reason to question whether to write it) but one thing it didn't count was actual distance. By the time I ran the entire time, I wasn't sure if I was really running 5K distance. A vivoactive app could track it on GPS and you would know how close 30 minutes on the clock is to 5K of distance.