Follow training online

On this blog I have written on a concept used during the marathon of Leiden which enabled spectators or people at home to follow runners on the web. SportsDo is a simular concept which is already fully operational where Leiden used a kind of Proof of Concept developped by TNO from the Netherlands.

SportDo is not just for runners but also voor cycling, skiing, etc.
SportDo uses GPS and the mobile phone to register the route followed. This is plotted on a map and of course this enables you to register distance, speed and elevation. As the information is uploaded using the mobile phone this can be done realtime enabling friends to follow the runner online. This is more than uploading your route from your Garmin or entering the route yourself using mapmyrun (see post on my Dutch blog). SportsDo also support community like features. Comparing it to the TNO concept it lacks the registration of the heart rates which many runners use for training purposes.
SportsDO is however a very nice concept. I am curious if other concept will pop up and which will surfive and end up to be the default portal for sporters.