Hood to Coast

Hood To Coast

About this app

The HTC app is a location tracking / fitness app that helps teams and individual participants while they compete in the Hood to Coast and Portland to Coast Relays as well as our One Day Relays. When timing yourself, the app will use your GPS location to calculate run/walk distance and pace. If you time one of your teammates, the app will just record the start and end time and calculate an average pace based on the distance of the leg. Using either method to collect the data or by entering in timing data manually on the Team screen, the HTC app will then provide estimated start and end times for each leg to help the team, captain and drivers coordinate when to be at the next exchange point.

Ratings and reviews

This app does not keep correct distance and time. It stops in the middle of a run. This app sometimes resets to zero miles run but keeps the elapsed time. On a seven mile run, I saw that it was slightly off at the three mile point. Then, around the four mile point(according to my Garmin forerunner) the mileage jumped to twenty miles. At the end, the app recorded a twenty three plus mileage with a pace of two minutes and change. And no, I did not get on a bike or car, just running.

I love Hood To Coast but loathe this app. I tried to use it on four occasions and it failed to track all or parts of every run except the last one. On that last event the timer wouldn't stop. It's the most troublesome app that I have ever tried. How can it possibly function as intended on some of the event's poor coverage areas? I hope HTC have a better product in time for next year's event but until then I'm dumping it.

I was very disappointed with my experience with this app during the hood to coast relay. Once you started a person's time there was no way to go back and view the stats of previous runners or to track the cumulative team time. There were multiple ways I found to inadvertently stop the runner's time who was on the course. And to switch timing from one runner to the next required at least six different taps. Why not one button to start the next runner?

What's new

Fixed pre-check issue