Map My Run by Under Armour Reviews

I’ve always been a huge fan of the this app site (even back before smart phones and mobile apps were ubiquitous) because the website’s ability to map out mileage for distance run training is awesome. It helped a lot back when I trained for marathons. Now that we’re all quarantined for Covid-19, I started running outside again as a means to maintain sanity, and I was pretty psyched to try out MapMyRun because I thought it would keep track of the distance for me so I wouldn’t need to spend time online mapping out mileage on the routes I might normally take. I have to say though, so far my experience has been hit or miss - literally. Sometimes MapMyRun simply doesn’t save my runs when I’ve finished despite following all of the on-screen prompts to save them. It’s sort of a bummer because I can’t really track my progress on MapMyRun . Instead I’ve just been taking screenshots of my run time/distance when I’m done, which is still better than nothing, but sort of a shame because then I don’t get to see how far I’ve run without going back and figuring out the distance traveled myself on their website. Maybe it’s just that I’m using only with my phone and not an Apple Watch and MapMyRun isn’t designed for that? It could just be some error I’m making on my end, but then maybe the UX isn’t ideally intuitive. Still, it’s better than nothing and free, so I’ll take it.

Decent app overall, but I use it almost exclusively for running in the city. It doesn’t seem to have a good way of filtering data taken while I’m stopped at traffic lights. As far as I can tell, it averages my being stopped at lights into metrics like foot strike angle (0 degrees) and cadence. Being stopped of course helps me catch my breath, so it makes sense to average it into pace data, but MapMyRun seems to treat stopped time identically to running time for metrics for which it doesn’t make sense to do so. As a result, this subset of the metrics is less useful to me, as I have to guess what the values would be sans stopped data. There are a variety of kinds of workouts to choose from, and even different kinds of runs, so I suggest adding a “city run” option that addresses the peculiarities of running downtown into its filtering.

P.S. I also don’t like that it sends me emails saying that I only have 25% of the miles left on my shoes — per metrics it claims that I set. I never set any such metrics! They just want me to buy new Under Armour shoes. Why not be honest and say it’s coming from their own recommendation for how many miles to run in the shoes? The UA shoes I have are still in great shape — in fact, a testament to UA, the owner of MapMyRun — and I don’t appreciate the dishonest marketing tactics. And anyway, isn’t all my data enough compensation for MapMyRun being free? (;

Update - continued instability with the system and apps. Now missing feeds. Thinks I’m not an MVP member. Notes to support get vague apologies and indefinite promises. If you’re going to operate complex software and online systems, you have to realize you’re not just making shoes and. Lot he’s anymore and step up with the resources to properly support and operate the system. Getting really frustrating. Original: Generally, MapMyRun is among the better run tracking apps — not a high bar — but there are a number of problems that have been going on long enough to rate a low review for poor support. First, sync with Apple Watch app when starting a run on the phone doesn’t sync well or at all. Takes several minutes for phone to register the phone is tracking a run, then is constantly behind so must look at the phone — distracting — to get actual stats. Slow to pick up heart rate from watch. Will begin tracking several minutes to near end of run. This has been reported to support months ago, response was it’s a known problem and to just track runs on the watch. Poor response — maybe if it’s a known problem, fix it? Also, training programs are better than some, but still offer limited customization. Difficult for someone trying to get back into running after an extended forced break. Fix it, and I’ll provide a better review.

I’ve been using MapMyRun for many years. I even bought an Apple Watch as a companion to MapMyRun for running, biking, and walking the dog. I like that it communicates with myfitnesspal

But here’s the rub. When MapMyRun is installed on my Apple Watch, it starts itself, runs in the background, and kills my watch battery before the end of the work day. A watch that does before the end of your work day is not very useful. I have to go I. To the phone and kill MapMyRun , then kill MapMyRun on the watch, and even by then it seems the Watch has opened MapMyRun on the phone again already. I spend 10 minutes fussing with it when I notice it’s doing that just so that I can make sure my watch battery won’t be drained in 6 hours. It’s fine when I remove MapMyRun. It’s even fine some of the time when I have MapMyRun on. I don’t run with my Apple Watch anymore because of MapMyRun. It’s pretty annoying. I’ve talked to support about it and they basically shrugged me off and said they’ve never heard of anyone else having that problem so it must be me.

It’s a great app if they can fix that glitch, but until then, I can’t use it with my Apple Watch, which I bought specifically to use with MapMyRun.

I have been using MapMyRun for at least 2 years. It has had its issues. Failure to connect with my apple watch at times, not able to edit functions once a workout has been started to name a couple. However, this weekend was the worst. Biggest running event of my life and MapMyRun fails to connect my apple watch to my phone! First time it happened in months just happens to be on the morning I start 150mi race across MI. Then after reviewing the data after the race I notice gaps in some of the metrics, not to mention that when for some reason MapMyRun did decide to pair with my apple watch it stopped again before the race was over. Also, I have noticed during training runs and my event that when you resume tracking your run after hitting the pause track button the voice coach starts repeating whatever metrics you have selected for it to announce during your runs. It sometimes last for a good 20 minutes which really starts to drain your phone or watch. When your trying to track such a large event like I was it does become problematic. I however, will not rule out possible operator error for the connection issue but I never changed any settings in my phone or watch prior to my race.

I have used MapMyRun for years, when it was just map my run. I’ve tried them all and this is the one I keep using. This last updated killed MapMyRun for me. I run a 2 mile loop and it used to be spot on for distance. Now it’s constantly off. 2.1 or 1.8 or even worse. I walk the exact same course and it is consistently measuring a miles way longer than it should. How does distance change when walked compared to running??? I use another app to track distance at the same time and it is spot on. MapMyRun no longer tells me heart rate or distance at the mile marks consistently. She tells me the time but for distance it says “distance....silence....miles” heart rate...silence....beats per minute”. Then at the next mile I might get a distance readout but not heart rate. Frustrating. Now I am battling getting it to connect to my Polar hr10. Heart Graph app picks it up just fine, so does iSmooth run. I see it connected in the Bluetooth settings. Why can’t this app Find it. I want to keep using MapMyRun it has all my history in it but life is far too short to deal with buggy crappy updates. Guess it’s iSmooth run, which isn’t that great or the crapshoot of MapMyRun Store to find something comparable.

Be prepared for disappointment with this one, seems once underarmour took over the quality got lost in rally sprints and the fiscal goals.

I’ve been using the Under Armor Record app for years to track my runs. It appears MapMyRun is no longer supported as it crashes upon opening every time now. I figured I could switch to MapMyRun seamlessly and continue as normal. You would think an app owned by the same company would work the same way. Wrong! Firstly, the robot voice is AWFUL. It takes so long for the robotic voice to announce the distance and duration. The voice on the other app was much more natural. Secondly, the GPS is wrong. The route I’ve been running for 6 months suddenly got shorter once I started using MapMyRun. And lastly, my biggest gripe... I always listen to podcasts when I run, but for some reason it’s nearly impossible to figure out how to make the announcements play properly. Sometimes it works, sometimes it’s just silence, sometimes it starts playing other music. Sometimes it works at the beginning of my run, but then stops half way through. This is infuriating. I constantly need to stop in the middle of my run to restart the podcast or check what my time and duration is. What a complete joke. Every time I’ve used MapMyRun, I’ve ended my run frustrated and annoyed. Im not someone who has issues with technology. MapMyRun is trash. Bring back the record app!!

I used to be able to start my workout on my phone, put my phone in my pocket, hold up my wrist and see that on my Apple Watch MapMyRun had already opened and showed my workout already going. The last few weeks this no longer works or only works part of the time. Now I hold my watch up (after starting a workout on my phone) and it does already have the watch app open, but now it only offers me the option to start another workout on my watch. So I start a workout there, and then SOMETIMES it will get in sync with the phone and change the time, and other times it won’t. Then I get home and finish my workout on the phone so that I can write my notes before finalizing it. After which I will notice later that when I hold my watch up there is still a workout going on my watch which I have to finish and delete. These are not issues that were present a few weeks ago. It would be nice to see this rolled back to where the phone and watch properly sync with each other during and after a workout.

I have noticed since the most recent update that something must have happened to MapMyRun. Wondering if a rep from the company would read this and get back to me? Have used MapMyRun for a year + and most recently for training for my half marathon for the past few months. So so disappointed as the last couple days when I tried to use it it pauses itself and I don’t know it. Wasn’t able to track a 10 mile run with numerous attempts of restarting MapMyRun and had to guess at my distance which is so so heartbreaking after all of this training. Also MapMyRun was already going when I launched it the other day? And it paused itself again and I closed it out, but all the sudden about 20 minutes later it started reading out my stats. Which was only five seconds because that’s when it had paused itself the last time I had tried to use it. Today when I tried it it didn’t even display numbers for the time or distance, it just showed dashes. I updated again this morning and I also deleted MapMyRun and then re-downloaded but no change. I’m so disappointed, and I was counting on using it for the half marathon which is in six days now. Help! I do see that option to get help with MapMyRun , but I would still like to reach out this way as well.

I downloaded MapMyRun because I loved all of the stats and features it offered that Runkeeper and Nike+ do not. I was even excited to pay for the premium account, but at this point it looks like my best option is to just delete MapMyRun . It takes up to 24 hours for MapMyRun on my Apple Watch to sync my activity to my iPhone app or the website. I contacted this app for help and was given a response about opening both apps at the same time and to be patient (which felt a lot like they were blaming me for their problem), it should sync thereafter. I can wait 15 to 30 minutes, but 24 hours is ridiculous. In addition, during today’s run, the distance and pace were way off. I am so disappointed. MapMyRun has so much potential, I just wish it worked the way it is intended.

*Update...I have downloaded the new update that was supposed to fix this problem. It’s been 12 hours since my last workout and it still has not synced from my watch to my phone. I tried to respond to the developers response below and every time I try to reply, I am brought back to my log in page and them my Map My Run page. No access to connect to support. Same thing happens when I try to access support from my page. This is ridiculous.

I only started to use this middle of last year when I invited my friends and family (from different part of the globe) to a steps challenge, and with the pandemic and people needed to boost their immune system and at the same time motivate them to walk, run, that was a HIT, and from the steps challenge, we did calories, distance and number of work outs. We also became Under Armour customers, from Nike and Adidas, we found UA shoes very comfortable. So why four stars only? First, because the developers took out the steps challenge. It’s the activity that people of all ages find so motivating. Second, there are so many improvements that programmers can do on MapMyRun - like team competition, limiting challenges to certain activities (for example, distance or steps challenge - you can limit the activity to walk, run, treadmill, etc and not all or one), social media enhancements, etc.

I’ve loved using MapMyRun for years but as of the last few months it started tracking improperly. I started noticing the time seemed less than my estimate and the voice mile markers were landing in variable places despite me taking the same route. I began to note exactly when i left and, for example, when i got home today the tracker showed I’d been out for 35 mins when I’d actually been out over an hour. I asked support and they responded with a fairly lengthy list of things to check. After checking them all and changing one, I still experienced the problem but i ignored the instruction to turn off all other apps because i listen to podcasts, radio and/or audible books when I run instead of music (which they said was fine). I also ignored the instruction to not use my power button to turn the screen because the screen flashes on and sometimes I will inadvertently pause my book, etc if the screen is on. My point is that MapMyRun is too finicky to work accurately for my taste and I'll be researching other walking/running apps unfortunately. I want to emphasize that I never had these problems until a few months ago.

I've used map my run for over five years. Have been running the same running paths for much of that time. Ran numerous half and full marathons with it. Always seemed accurate with the race course distance and consistent in the distance of my running paths.

About a year ago, map my run significant changed. What used to be a five mile run became a 4.5 mile run (thus my times got much slower). I often use Nike running app too and the distance on there has not changed. What was always 5 miles was still 5 miles. I thought this might be due to me using the Apple Watch with map my run but when I un-synced them and used only my phone, it still said the shorter distance. This stinks for training because I have no clue my real pace.

I'm not the only person this has happened to as I've heard in many of my running groups this happening to others. Not sure what the problem is but I might start using Nike instead if this doesn't get fixed. Otherwise I love the map my run app!

The goals are set up by miles and time. It also tells you how many minutes it should take to complete the miles. This I love however the voice coach tell you your speed in miles per hour instead of minutes per mile so hard to know when you are meeting your goal. I wish the 2 formats could match. My second issue is I love that I can set up training to prepare for a race but I don’t like that the minimum goal for running seems to be a 12 minute mile. I wish this could be adjusted because I’m at a 14 min mile and it’s frustrating I can’t meet my goal and by they time I’m getting closer to meeting it the minutes per mile is decreasing so I’m constantly behind. If it could be adjusted for slower runners it will be more beneficial assisting in improving your minute per mile. Overall MapMyRun does help me stay on a running schedule and I live the interval training even if I can’t stay at the speed it is instructing to run. Lastly the goals are miles and minutes for example run 2.2 miles in 32 minutes. But the voice coach will tell you that you’ve met your goal when you reach 32 minutes even if you haven’t met your mile goal.

I have used this app/Fitness since 2012. I have trained for triathlons, half marathons, and marathons with MapMyRun. I have loved it. Love the challenges, etc. I loved it even more when I got the Apple Watch and was able to have my heart rate tracked and pause my workouts from my wrist. I was even initially excited about the prospect of not having to have my phone (mainly to use MapMyRun on open water swims). I take back my excitement. I have never used my watch to listen to music (skips too much) and I want my phone with me on runs for emergency purposes anyway. With the recent update that made phone-less use of MapMyRun possible, I now don’t like MapMyRun at all. If I start my run on the watch to get heart rate and be able to pause, I don’t get the coaching and distance updates. If I start MapMyRun on my phone, I can’t pause MapMyRun on my watch, no heart rate tracking, no skipping of playlist songs from the watch - now I am back to getting out my phone to do all this. Please please please bring back mirroring of the phone - make it an option so those of us who want it can use it! Otherwise I may not use MapMyRun much anymore : /

When I first downloaded MapMyRun 4 years ago it tracked my distance really well on uphills, downhills, and straightaways. I really enjoyed it and it made it easy to see how well or not well I was doing on my runs. However, in the last year as they started to make updates for MapMyRun the distance it tracks has become more and more inaccurate. It is only accurate when you walk, and when you run it differs based on how fast you run. The faster you run the shorter it tracks you and the farther off your mile times become. The neighborhood I live in is about 3.2 miles, and map my run tracks all 3.2 of those miles when I walk the neighborhood. However, the minute I start running the shorter and shorter the distance becomes, and additionally if you run up or down any sort of hill it causes further inaccuracies. On my latest run it tracked me at 2.5 miles, which is .7 miles short of the actual distance. But, when I walked it right after my run it once again came up with 3.2 miles. I just thought people should know that if you use MapMyRun for running purposes to keep in mind that it may be a little to way off depending on how far you run.

I am on my third year using MapMyRun with the Under Armour HOVR shoes that do their own tracking (have 4 pairs in rotation). Over time, MapMyRun has improved. However, the last several “updates” have been horrible, and each one has taken days to correct itself. Each day, I run (or jog with dog) my same neighborhood routes. Just came back from a dog walk that is wildly off, but at least it tracked at all. Yesterday’s dog walk was completely lost. I should have listened to my gut earlier and NOT press “update” this last time, before yesterday’s dog walk. I have also experienced issues with treadmill runs, but I don’t do those often, so I could understand MapMyRun being thrown off a bit. That being stated, the negative effects of these “updates” are really piling up. I hope MapMyRun corrects itself soon. Then no more “updates” for me. I’m putting quotes around “updates”on purpose, developers, in efforts to spread the eye-rolling and annoyances. Please fix MapMyRun, even it means losing bells and whistles.

I like MapMyRun and have found it quite useful in my conquest into getting fit. I like how it is versatile and allows for other uses such as I use it to track my outdoor roller skating sessions. I quite love the design and the features that allows you to make posts to people in your area, but I have some ideas and requests for future improvements on MapMyRun . First of all I think you should be able to impute your own calorie data for a more accurately calculate calories burned. Second I think being able to plan routes in advance then have it give you directions as you are going to stay in your wanted miles and set a pace and therefore giving you a time guess on how long your route will take. The other thing that would be nice is while planning a run you can put reminders to stop or pay attention at certain points. Other than just a few ideas I like MapMyRun and recommend a good free running app.

Use MapMyRun while doing various cardio to log my miles and keep progress. Typically that’s while on the treadmill watching something or while listening to music outside. I’ve go through setting after setting to try and turn off the coach’s voice that alerts you to track your cadence. It’s unbearable especially on long jogs where your cadence will fluctuate (the coaching voice alerts you when in the target zone and immediately once you left it then again when you hit it etc). At a given time on a run you could get a solid 40 seconds of in “the target zone” (8 seconds later) “2 off the target zone” (9 seconds later ) “yesss you are now in the target zone” Ive turned off all other voice commands but this one stays on and if there’s a way to turn it off then it’s not apparent. Would give MapMyRun 5 stars but this issue has become unbearable

Y’all made a great app that is both practical and visually appealing. Both current challenges encourage me to log on to your app and use it to run. And the features offered with Premium tempt me daily to purchase the yearly subscription. One idea I have is for you to create “community challenges” where a UA coordinator creates a route for runners in a local area to master along with start and end dates for the challenge, and the fastest times receive prizes. An example for my area would be the Greenway that runs along two main roads in my area. I think more challenges would better keep users relevant and talking about your app, especially if the challenges each focused on a specific running aspect mentioned in MapMyRun (distance, time, pace). I’m a teen with a high gpa and a passion for running who would love to help you improve MapMyRun (and maybe earn some money in the process).

Indoor 10lap/mile, 8lap/mile tracks are too tight for the gps to track distance accurately. I find I’ll run 4 miles and MapMyRun will say I ran 2.4 or something but will keep the 4 mile time. So I’ll run 4 miles in 35 min and MapMyRun will say distance: 2.4mi, time: 35 min. ALSO, I find that when I am running and I walk for 5 seconds, then start running again, MapMyRun will pause the run, I have auto pause off. I will continue the run and MapMyRun will no longer be tracking. 4 stars because everything else is good. Data and such. Also, it could use more challenges, other running apps have more challenges people complete on a monthly basis to earn virtual medals, it just makes things more interesting. 5k, 10k, 15k runs to earn a medal, and have people compete with each other (leaderboard of fastest times) etc. I would really appreciate MORE CHALLENGES like on a weekly or monthly basis? Would be cool. Excuse the use of bold letters in “more challenges” not trying to yell with large font but more so attract attention to the need of more challenges haha. Pleeeeease. $30 a year subscription for 2 year long challenges??? And some other small medals and stuff. It would encourage people to run more if you had lots of small challenges that people can earn small virtual medals to brag about, that add onto their profile for others to see progress and such.

MapMyRun suddenly got better a few days ago.
I like to keep track of my running mileage and pace. It helps motivate me since I've aged (now 74) and all 12 of my running buddies have given it up so I'm mostly running alone.
Also I moved across town recently and MapMyRun gives me a map and keeps track of my distance so I can explore and go in a different direction every day.
The best recent change is that it stops when I stop. I'm so compulsive that I frequently would pause MapMyRun while waiting for a red light or to stretch a tight tendon but I'm also forgetful when the endorphins are working and I would forget to restart the tracking. This feature seems very reliable. Now even if I get home at the end of a run and forget to turn it off it patiently waits without racking up more time.
I don't know how many runs it will store. My previous app was not only twitchy and unreliable but it would suddenly lose my old runs. I would like an option to store old data in the cloud.

I have used MapMyRun for a few years and absolutely loved it, never had problems until the last couple months. Every time I go for a run..it seems at about a mile MapMyRun crashes. If I reboot it, and start over....same thing happens. I have to keep checking my phone as I’m running to see when MapMyRun closes and catch it as fast as I can to keep my data as close as possible and not risk running too long without it. It is seriously infuriating. It’s synced with my Apple Music and I have a theory they're correlated somehow in messing something up because when I also go to shuffle songs on my Apple Music, shortly after the map my run app closes. I’ve never experienced this before until now and I’m tempted to get rid of MapMyRun forever. But I have too much history I don’t want to lose so I’m just waiting, hoping it will fix itself. So annoying

I used to use MapMyRun all the time but something happened and it’s been too long like this that I finally deleted it today. I deleted MapMyRun for two reasons: the GPS and sync with Apple Watch.

The gps signal was strong where I live ( Southern/Central California). On runs, every two minute update as to pace, distance were completely off which really bothered me on my runs. One two minute update it said I was at 23 minute pace! And the next was 8:00 and then 14. The pace was 8-9 minute. This continued throughout my runs consistently for two weeks.

Next, the Apple Watch sync. Just terrible and frustrating. If I started MapMyRun through my watch then it would not give voice updates or coach mode through the phone or ear piece. The start feature on the watch also didn’t show calories/distance or pace. On the watch I could tell MapMyRun was on because the only option was “finish” but all the features showed three zero’s. My girlfriend had the same problem. I am moving back to the Nike running app or Strava. I would like to come back to MapMyRun but it needs to be fixed soon. There are so many complaints!

Sometimes MapMyRun chooses to work well and a lot of the time it chooses not to work. I use MapMyRun on my iPhone 8 with my Apple Watch. I will launch MapMyRun on my phone and sometimes it will sync with MapMyRun on my phone so I can see my time and distance but a lot of the time it will not. Also MapMyRun will randomly stop recording then will start back up. Today I added an extra half mile to my two mile route (a route I measured numerous times) yet when I got home MapMyRun said I didn’t even run 2 miles. Also I’ll finish my work out and save it then somehow I get an update an hour later saying my work out timed out. So instead of having accurate averages so I can track my progress all of my times are messed up because MapMyRun will randomly choose to continue running. Looking to switch apps because MapMyRun is making tracking my work puts a hassle.

I absolutely love the Apple Watch app for tracking all my workouts. There are 2 things that bug me though.

1. You can not control the music from MapMyRun itself. Apple updated their fitness tracking app to where you just swipe left and all the music controls are there. This makes it much easier to lower volume on the headphones and change tracks without having to push buttons and going to the now playing app.

2. After using MapMyRun for a very long time, I would like to know, how often does MapMyRun track the heart rate? The best cardio that I get is from using a jump rope in between all my sets of lifting weights. It’s a bummer when I do a good job to raise my heart rate real high, then look down at the watch and MapMyRun says I’m at 96BPM instead of the 155+BPM.

The workaround that I found is to leave Apples heart rate tracker app open in the background, so immediately after jumping rope, I switch to that app and click on the heart to get the updated heart rate, then I’ll go back to map my run, and it’ll be updated their too.

Other than that I love how well it tracks my runs and weight lifting. I’m guessing the jump roping in between sets it something that you guys haven’t taken into consideration when tracking upper body workouts.

Thanks for an awesome app!

I am very disappointed with this new update. I have been training for my half marathon for months now and never had a problem with MapMyRun. All of a sudden since I updated MapMyRun , I started running and it started not giving the correct mileage. Something is wrong with the GPS and it says I would run 1.5 miles when in reality I really only ran .5 miles. Something has gone wrong with the GPS on MapMyRun because of the update. Also when I went to launch MapMyRun and tried again the other day I noticed that MapMyRun was already going and it was spewing out numbers in which I wasn’t even running and didn’t even have MapMyRun open yet. Very disappointed. Because of this I am switching back to the ASICS Runkeeper app as it has always been very reliable. The only reason why I download MapMyRun and tried it was because I liked some of the features that you guys had that Runkeeper didn’t. But now I know that this application is not reliable and I highly recommend if anybody is wanting to download MapMyRun not to as it will not give you the correct distance or time.

I’ve used MapMyRun for more than a year, put over five hundred miles on it. and overall have been very happy with it. It maps my runs, lets me see a few of my friends’ runs, even suggests potential runs if I’m out of town running in unfamiliar cities. Good stuff.

But over the past several weeks, the GPS has become all but worthless. It loses my location, “jumps” me a half-mile away to the middle of nowhere, “jumps” me back again, rinse and repeat. By the end it’s added an extra fake 2 miles to my run (and tells me I ran it at record speed!). I am using MapMyRun , and my phone, he same as I always have before. I have followed the online help suggestions: closed other apps, made sure Location Services is On, turned WiFi off, rebooted the phone, uninstalled & reinstalled MapMyRun . Nothing works. My past 8 runs in a row, none have been accurate.

If it can’t actually map my run, the rest is worthless. I’ll give y’all one more update to fix this before I delete it permanently and move along.