http://www.locopuyo.com/MarathonRunnerBeta1.zip
Just unzip it then run the MarathonRunner Java Exacutable file. This one is pretty basic (its just a beta). 8 and 9 move the legs for now. You have to close and reopen to start a new race. In the final version I' ll have photo realistic graphics, customizable controls, choose from a number of races (100 meter dash, mile, 5k run, marathon and more), and probably a high scores database on my web site for each race.
The race is set to 1000 steps in this, so it should take you less than 2 minutes to finish. Let me know what you think, post your times.

what app do i use for this?

by far the best game I' ve ever played and finished in record time. 2m4s

haha thanks. 5 people i know got exactly 1 minute and 36 seconds their first time. then there have been 3 people I know who finished just a little over 2 minutes besides you. The best anyone has ever done on their first time is 1:36. The fastest time so far is 1:28, and one person has 1:29.

I' m trying to work on the scores part of it now. The game will connect to a database on my server and put a high score on there.

u should change the buttons from 8 9 to the left and right arrows, much easier,and lower the score, lol, 1000 steps, i was getting tired.

That' s a freaking short marathon. I hope the one I run in June goes by that fast

Um... can you count your steps while you run your marathon? Hahaha, I' ll probably just calculate it out jogging a short distance.

Nike has equipment you can buy that caculates your speed and counts how many steps you take. I' m thinking abouyt buying it for when I do my race.

i got 1:36 on my first try

#1 - My keyboard does not have a START button.

#2 - This doesn' t run on a Mac.

Um its not supposed to have one. THe game has a start button you click with your mouse. You just need java to play it. You need the latest version of java or else it won' t work. http://www.java.com/en/download/manual.jsp there is a link at the bottom to get java for macs.

What happened when you tried to play it? If it gave you some sort of cannot find main class error that means you have an old version of java.

http://www.locopuyo.com/MarathonRunnerBeta2.zip
Marathon Runner Beta 2 is ready for download. Now you can customize controls and choose from a variety of race lenghts. In the next version there will be online high scores.

Let me know if you have any suggestions for the game and post your high scores.
more information is available on my web site.

hmmm having troubles with the settings. Can' t seem to get them to work. When I click Set Left Leg is somthing supposed to pop up allow me to change the setting or do I just push trhe button then go back to the race panel?

EDIT: O wait nevermind just realized only typed buttons can be put in.

I have the latest version of Java for the Mac. When I launch it, it says:

Jar Launcher

The jar file " MarathonRunner.jar" couldn' t be launched. Check the Console for possible error messages

OK

And the Console says:

Exception in thread " main"  java.lang.UnsupportedClassVersionError: marathonrunner/Main (Unsupported major.minor version 49.0)
 
 	at java.lang.ClassLoader.defineClass0(Native Method)
 
 	at java.lang.ClassLoader.defineClass(ClassLoader.java:539)
 
 	at java.security.SecureClassLoader.defineClass(SecureClassLoader.java:123)
 
 	at java.net.URLClassLoader.defineClass(URLClassLoader.java:251)
 
 	at java.net.URLClassLoader.access$100(URLClassLoader.java:55)
 
 	at java.net.URLClassLoader$1.run(URLClassLoader.java:194)
 
 	at java.security.AccessController.doPrivileged(Native Method)
 
 	at java.net.URLClassLoader.findClass(URLClassLoader.java:187)
 
 	at java.lang.ClassLoader.loadClass(ClassLoader.java:289)
 
 	at sun.misc.Launcher$AppClassLoader.loadClass(Launcher.java:274)
 
 	at java.lang.ClassLoader.loadClass(ClassLoader.java:235)
 
 	at java.lang.ClassLoader.loadClassInternal(ClassLoader.java:302)

Some people with windows had a problem similiar to that, they didn' t have the latest version of java. When they downloaded the new version it worked. Do you have the latest version? Because I use some new features in java that weren' t included in the older versions in my game. You need 5.5.

It is listed at 1.4.2 on my computer, but I imagine that the Mac versions are labeled differently. Try Flash!

I looked at the mac java web site and it looks like in order to run the latest version of java 1.5.5 you need Tiger. So I guess my game, and many other java applications cannot run on Macs. Although I know you can get the latest version of java for linux, and max os x is pretty much a modified linux, so I dunno. I guess Macs suck.