Race Buddy

About Race Buddy Android App

This app is designed to help you improve your race speed and keep it on target during the race.
The screen can be configured to show up to 16 statistics about your current race. By changing the values to show and the font size it can show fewer values in a large font or more values (up to 16) in a small font.

I have a Garmin Forerunner 310 and this is my version of that on a phone.

Depending on how you measure your performance you can choose the values to show in any order with the important ones at the top. For example, some people race to an average pace, others to an average speed while others race to a target finish time. Whatever is important to you put these values at the top of the screen and hide the values you are not interested in. You can then adjust the font size to make the values fit the screen.

You can set a lap distance, an overall race distance and the race values that are available for you to choose to display are any from:

Current speed
Current pace
Time run
Distance
Remaining distance for the race
Current lap number
Remaining distance for the current lap
Distance race in the current lap
Average race speed
Average race pace
Average speed for the current lap
Average pace for the current lap
Remaining time to the end of the race at the current speed.
Projected total race time at the current speed
Altitude
GPS accuracy

There is also a list of statistics for each lap run so far showing: lap number, lap time, lap speed, lap pace.

The app is good for glasses wearers who need big numbers. Hide what you don’t need and make the important things large. If you can cope with the maximum of 16 values on the screen at once, go for it!

The screen is laid out in 2 columns and 8 rows and you can show or hide any of these positions and put any of the values in any position. If you want to show more values in a larger font than will fit on the screen the screen will scroll to accommodate this

The app has full help screens describing every function.

I have written this app to be simple and clear to read. To facilitate this it has a white screen with black writing and no graphics or adverts. It only does what it needs to do and no more so it does not ask for authority to anything it does not need.

Please contact me if you have problems or there is anything you would like added. I have included all the values that I think you will need to keep your speed high. If there are other values I have missed and you would like shown please let me know. Also, if the app helps you give me a review. The only way others can find this app is through good reviews.

The app will work in KM, Miles or a combination of both.

The app is flexible so whatever way you keep your speed up you can set it to support you. Some look at the overall race statistics others a lap at a time.

***** A NOTE ABOUT PRIVACY

Like all running/race/timer apps, this app needs to have access to your location while it is running to track your speed and distance. From Android 10 and above location authority has been split into two: 1 "Allow only while using the app" 2 "Allow all the time".
This now applies to all apps of this type. This and other sports apps will work with 1 "Allow only while using the app" if you keep the app displayed on the screen while using it. If you want to use other apps and put a sports app in the background (while racing) Android will turn off the phone's GPS and it will no longer measure your speed etc. So you need to allow type 2 "Allow all the time" if you want this app to track your race while in the background.

I would like to assure you that this app does not share or store any information. The only thing it temporarily records is the current race and this is all deleted when you reset the timer.

I wrote this app for my own use while training and I thought others might find it useful. It is free to download and share. There are adverts but they will not get in the way during the race or while stopping and starting the timer.