Hal Higdon Marathon Training Program - Novice 1 App Reviews

If youre looking for a training program to run marathon, there are a lot of free sources for calendars that lay out how many miles you need to run, when, over a 16-20 week schedule. Try Runners World website. I thought this would be a more customizable version of that. But all it is, basically, is a calendaring function laid on top of a lousy UI that uses GPS to track your runs. RunKeeper, ISmoothRun are all much better apps. And the marathon calendaring function basically just asks for the date of the marathon and then plugs in mileage for dates 20 weeks prior. What if you need to prepare in 16 weeks? What if youve got a half marathon in the middle. This is, from what I can tell, just a vehicle for in-app subscription services for garbage. Just stay away. ISmoothRun has far more features and your own calendar can give you the rest

Paid too much $ for an app that just gives you ads and wants you to make in app purchases. The app itself is okay, but there definitely needs to be some tune-ups. Wish I could get my money back.

Have been using this app for a couple of weeks & I really like it. I find it easy to use. The training is broken up in small chunks; not too slow, challenging but not so hard where I have given up. I am confident I will be able to finish my 1st marathon!

Too many ads. App is good concept, but it shuts down when you look at the graph and there are way too many ads. For the price, this should offer multiple training programs. Novice, novice 2, etc. so you could build up your running programs. Paying this much for one equals buyers remorse.

The main thing I like about this app is I enter the marathon date and it schedules out all my runs so I dont have to write anything out on the calendar anymore. Otherwise it was disappointing and frustrating to use. The gps was often off by a mile or so, the recorded tips got redundant after a while, and I could rarely get it to post my runs to Facebook. I ran a marathon a couple weeks ago and thought it would have some interesting or unique things to say for the race but it was just the same old stuff like any other training run, and it was over 2 miles off with the mileage. I wont bother using it anymore during runs but will use the calendar.

Wish I could give it negative five stars. save your money. Bookmark Higdon on your phone browser or print the training schedule and tape it to your fridge. This app has sucked the joy out of tracking my training progress. Hope I can get a refund. I cant get back the hours of my life Ive wasted trying to reset the journal, which inexplicably scrambled.

First and foremost, by following this app I was fully trained and in shape for my first marathon, which I completed with a time I was very happy with. Overall, it did it’s job and I was happy I used it. There were few bugs along the way. First, the GPS was often inaccurate (which may have been the fault of my phone, I realize), and it would occasionally credit me up to 8/10ths of a mile, depending on how far I ran. Second. At a certain point during training Hal’s occasional voice over instructions stopped working. Not a huge deal, but it happened. Those are the main issues I had. Neither was a huge deal and I’d use the app again, but I figured they were worth mentioning. Hope this helps and good luck on your marathon training.

The app worked great until I needed tech support. I received the auto reply and that was it. I paid addition funds for the run helper which they gladly took my money. I havent been able to get back original app. Thanks but no thanks.

Ive trained with Hal Higdon programs in the past. I was hoping this would be a very interactive app that incorporated the training program. Wrong. Its a very heavy in-app purchase app that basically for $9.99 provides you with everything you could get for free with a two minute Google search. Although I dont use if for GPS tracking (which entering it manually like I do is another somewhat annoying process), I can see where this may be of some convenience, but not for $9.99.

Nothing of value in the app. You can get more for free from web. Waste of $10. All it does is try to sell additional apps.

Calendar is not correct on app. Shows running days in Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday. Monday is supposed to be a rest day.

After completing couch25k and getting myself up to about 7 miles, I committed to doing a marathon. I used this app from day one and followed it about 95% through. It was the perfect choice for me. Hal is inspiring with his words and always kept me thinking positive when times got tough. He seems to chime in at the right time and kept me going. Toward the end of the training I had to modify things a little to get ready for the big day. Ill never forget my 20 mile run with the support of my wife and Hal. I got through it fairly easy and was marathon ready. I ran the Philadelphia Marathon in 2011 thanks to this program. I would recommend this app or any Bluefin app to my friends and family.