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Commitment to Sustainability

RunGo is committed to promoting sustainability by encouraging eco-friendly practices within the running, travel, fitness, and hospitality communities. Specifically, RunGo seeks to accomplish this by replacing consumable practices with superior digital practices, by showcasing scenic outings fostering appreciation for the environment, by promoting local, walkable destinations to reduce carbon footprints, and by partnering with organizations focused on environmental conservation.

Each year, RunGo reduces millions of otherwise paper uses and thousands of trees, sees millions of activities on its platform, keeps people healthy, and reduces vehicle trips for self-propelled local travel.

With every step, RunGo helps runners, walkers, and travellers not only explore the world but protect it for future generations.

Origin Story

Craig Slagel was a runner with a bad sense of direction who created a running app with turn-by-turn audio navigation to prevent him from getting lost.

Slagel, who’s originally from London, England, was working in the visual effects industry for Hollywood movies, living in United States and Canada, and traveling a ton. When he’d go running in foreign cities, he’d often get lost. Once, while on a business trip to Tokyo, he set out on what he hoped would be an hour-long run with a map provided by his hotel. Two hours later, he was lost and late for his morning meeting. (He admits he doesn’t have a great sense of direction.)

“I’d spend all this time trying to figure out a route, memorize it and still get lost anyway,” Slagel said. “I just wanted to go and run. I was an early adopter of car GPS systems and I thought, there should be something like this for running, too.”

So he built a first-of-its-kind hands-free app with turn-by-turn voice navigation, designed for runners. RunGo works offline, if routes are downloaded ahead of time, and like other fitness apps, it tracks time, distance, pace, elevation and calories burned, plus it can give speech updates on distance and pace and runners can add custom audio messages. Picture being near the end of your run and your phone telling you to pick up the pace for the final stretch or sharing insight on local landmarks or spots to grab water.

When You Travel

Running is the best way to explore a city when you travel. With routes around the world, curated by passionate locals showing off the best of their city and by RunGo’s hotel partners, you can enjoy your run at your own pace with voice navigation to keep you on track and your eyes up. No more distractions from printed maps or digital maps stuck on your screen!

Why Voice Navigation?

Explore routes with clear voice directions as you approach each turn. Get notified when you go off route and have the option to share your exact location in real time with others. RunGo is accessible and supports voiceover for visually impaired users.