And if Pokémon Go’s still-wonky servers weren’t botching half of my captures at that time, I would have had way more. It’s a cumbersome process, certainly, and I missed a couple along the way because my mind was bouncing between running, catching Pokémon, and documenting the process. When I got home, I used those images to recall where I was for each capture and placed a note on the map. RunGo doesn’t currently let you annotate routes from the app, only from the website-that feature is planned, however-so to keep notes, I’d take a screenshot of the Pokémon I captured followed by another screenshot of the RunGo app, which showed my position on the map. I gave it a shot in my own north side Chicago neighborhood, drawing a loop of about 3 miles and then following a path that looped through a large park and near a river. Using the web course creator, I annotated my Pokémon trek with precise locations and which monsters were found. If enough of a community forms around it, that could be a real resource for Pokémon Go fans. Users can drop a point of interest on the map and mention which kinds of Pokémon were spotted there, letting later runners try and fill gaps in their PokéDexes while getting a workout. While RunGo’s team might concoct a few more Pokémon-themed routes in major cities if interest is high, they hope users will go ahead and design their own via the platform’s route creator. And then it ends up at the PokéStop at Farmers’ Gate, where you can relax after your run by tossing down a Lure and bringing the Pokémon to you instead. New York City route is a 5-mile journey that loops you through Midtown and up into Central Park for the majority of the run, with specific mentions of Jigglypuff, Meowth, Vulpix, and other monsters along the way. Surely Central Park has a stockpile of Pokémon to capture. That way, runners can look away from their phone and still follow the route, but then slow down or stop when a Pokémon emerges or a PokéStop is near. Using those same kinds of socially-compiled maps, they designed routes in major cities that loop through areas where Pokémon have been spotted en masse. “People getting outside and not looking where they’re going is maybe not as great.”īelieving their app could be used to help people safely hunt Pokémon, hit nearby gyms and PokéStops, and incubate in-game eggs, RunGo created a couple of specialized routes for players. Getting people outside is great,” affirms RunGo founder Craig Slagel about his app and what Pokémon Go has been able to accomplish, as well. “We’ve always wanted to get people outside. Did you hear about the two guys whoįell off of a cliff outside San Diego this week because they were playing Pokémon? It’s an extreme case, but you also don’t want to run into a tree branch, trip over a small child, or traipse into traffic while playing. It’s a philosophy that could apply just as well to running as playing Pokémon Go: if you aren’t paying attention to what’s in front of you, bad things can happen.
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