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RunAlong is a female health community specializing in group runs or walks. Created by userdriven innovation, it is the first site by runners for runners. RunAlong was founded by Heidi Harman and supported by the Swedish Agency for Innovation Systems, Vinnova.
RunAlong is built in Ruby on the framework Rails, and we do our best to work with an aproach where we release new features and let the users test and get back to us, in order to have a user-driven process.
RunAlong is a service that supports women's health and physical fitness, by enabling women to run safely and stay motivated. We believe that having a strong informal network helps women create new healthy, personal and professional networks. By joining RunAlong and running with your RunAlong network, it will be easier to meet and maintain your set goals. You have someone else to run with, while your activity level and physical well-being increases.
We only collaborate and work with companies that contribute to womens health in a responsible way.
Our vision and goal is to build the best possible group running site for women to use, both for networking, fun and safety. This project was founded by Vinnova, because we are working with user driven Innovation, something we strongly belive in. The central aspect of developing this site is to let the users define and prioritize what criteria an event-based/group running site should live up to. To conclude, we are a site by runners for runners.
The idea for RunAlong was sparked back in 2005 when Heidi experienced she could do just about anything in life but did not feel comfortable running alone in the dark. In Sweden, where the days are quite short during winter, this was something of a problem. In response, Heidi designed a concept for group runs, for female runners, this to motivate more women to run.