What is Doubling Back?
Doubling Back is an iPhone application for measuring your walking distance.
How do I Use the App?
Just start the app, press the Start button, and start walking. When you are ready to stop measuring your walking distance, press the Stop button.
Can I Measure Multiple Segments?
Yes, you can! After your first segment is done, just press the Start button again. As with the first segment, once your walk is complete, press the Stop button again. The Doubling Back app will measure the total distance of all your segments.
How Do I Start Over?
No problem! Just presss the Reset button to clear out the current measurements and start fresh.
What Does It Do?
Doubling Back is designed to help you measure the one-way distance of your walking or running. You might want to do this if you are looking for a new way to motivate yourself to walk more. For example, it can be a fun challenge to try covering new ground on your way home, not just the same path you took to get somewhere.
Bird watching is a fun activity that is also the fastest-growing hobby in the United States. If you want to help scientists discover more about birds, you can submit your bird sightings to a public database.
But part of what you need to know when you submit your sightings is how far you traveled while birdwatching. In this case, you will need the one-way distance. Doubling Back makes it easy to measure this distance. Just press the Start button when you start walking. Then whenever you find yourself backtracking, you can press the Stop button. On the way back, did you turn a different way, meaning you started covering new ground? Just press Start again. At the end of your walk, press Stop and Doubling Back will tell you the total distance for all the portions of new ground you covered.
What Else Can I Use It For?
Here are just a few examples of the other ways you might choose to use Doubling Back:
- Maybe your morning commute involves walking on the sidewalk and also walking in the subway station underground. How much walking are you doing above ground? How much below ground?
- There is a forest path near your home that has one part paved but another part is just a dirt path. How long is the paved part? How long is the dirt portion?
- For your morning walk, maybe you walk alone. But then in the evening you walk with a friend. Which walk is longer? Now you can measure them and find out.
Feel free to use your imagination! Doubling Back can help you measure any distance you can walk or run.
Contact us
If you have any questions regarding the Doubling Back app, please contact us via email at tnight@pobox.com and we will do our best to respond quickly.