As with many other things in life, Endomondo is just more fun when you're among friends. A lot of you have asked us to make it easier for you to invite your friends to join us. With new features for both Outlook and Facebook invitations, we now have 5 easy ways to invite friends to join: Via Facebook, Microsoft Outlook, Gmail, Yahoo or simply by email address.

We want to celebrate these new features by creating a new kind of challenge: 

Be among the first 100 Endos to recruit 10 new users and get a free running tee from Endomondo's Sportswear collection.*

If you're among the first 100 to reach 10 recruited Endos, we'll send you an email and ask for your postal address and preferred size.

Go to Friends & Teams and click on Invite Friends to get started. Once you have recruited the first friend, there will be a counter showing you how many Endos, you've recruited so far. Please note that for a friend to count, he or she needs to sign up on Endomondo with the same email address that you sent the invitation to. We realize that a lot of you invited a bunch of friends to join by simply telling them about Endomondo. We are truly grateful for this but we cannot keep track of these recruits for technical reasons.

One way or the other, we hope you'll help us spread the word about Endomondo! 

Mette

*The same user cannot receive more than one tee.

Race against friends and foes and become Route Champion!

Hi guys,
Wow…as avid cyclists and runners we have been looking forward to introducing our new Route Champion feature for a long, long time. We have been working with the organizers of the Road Race World Championship 2011 to get the concept just right. Now the first step is here!

Up until now, we have seen friends all over the World compete in various challenge - in our global challenges but also just amongst friends. From today, you get to compete in not only who can run faster or burn the most calories but in who's faster on a particular route. And not only that, while you are out, your phone will serve as a route navigator! We hope this will help you find likeminded in your neighborhood to compete with.

How do I become a Route Champion?
Just go to Routes on our website and find the route you want to compete on. Select a workout that you did on that route and you are in. Now you can compare your performance to friends and foes!

Use your BlackBerry as a route navigator
Go to Routes, select any route that you find interesting to try out and select Download to your BlackBerry. Next time you open up the app, the route will appear on your Route list on your phone. Set the route as a goal and off you go. When you click on the map, it now shows your position on the route. It’s that easy. As a bonus, you automatically join the Route Champion competition on the chosen route.

It's currently available for BlackBerry devices only (app version 7.0), but don’t worry, we will bring this feature on to Android, iPhone and Nokia later on.

We will check in shortly with more news as we have some very, very exciting stuff coming up in October.

Talk to you soon,

Jakob

Illustration of Route Champions concept:

Endos,

Thank you all for freeing a lot of endorphins in our global Endomondo Sportswear Challenge in August! We are happy to announce the five winners of running jackets from our new sportswear collection:

• Jesper Holmelund - 17,255 kcal

• Buster McFly - 48,715 kcal

• Per Thamsen - 3,666 kcal

• Adrian Musiol - 8,134 kcal

• Andy Paddy Murphy - 11,530 kcal

Congratulations to our winners who will receive an email with details shortly. The rest of you can buy the jacket in our store.

We hope you all had fun. If you haven't signed up to our Ovi Daily App challenge already, you can do it here.

Take care!

Mette