College Entrepreneur Creates App to Sync Music With Running SpeedMichigan State University students created TempoRun, an app that helps users run at their ideal pace by categorizing the music in their libraries from walking to 10 sprinting.
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Runners of any ability can relate to the feeling Josh Leider had during a summer workout last year. "'Lose Yourself' by Eminem came up on my iPod, and it was the perfect beat for the pace I was running," says the recentMichigan State Universitygrad. "Running never felt better than it did at that moment; it was amazing. But next, a song came up that was a totally different pace. It completely threw off my stride. It also made me wonder why I couldn't match all of my music to my running pace."
Leider ran his question by fellow MSU student Benny Ebert-Zavos, a marathon runner. The two found that there were apps on the market that adjust song tempos as a runner's pace changes, but none that categorized music according to tempo. With that,TempoRunwas born.
