Exercise enthusiasts will love Run Keeper, an upcoming fitness tracker for the iPhone. It centers on a really simple tracker that chases your location as you run via GPS, soon after puts that data into a personal database.

Every instance you complete a run you can see how far you went (to the best of the phone’s tracking capabilities), along with the duration spent and how it compares

with previous runs, all on a Google Map.

Developer Jason Jacobs of FitnessKeeper tells us it’s just the tip of the iceberg for planned development and that much bigger things are on the way. For citizens too cheap to shell out for Nike’s iPod nano-centric run tracker that makes a viable alternative albeit with less integration with iTunes. Nice, however, is the option to […]

Orginal post by Josh Lowensohn