Friday, September 21, 2007

Testing mapmyrun.com



That should be the 5 mile route above, but it doesn't appear when I view it. Maybe people using a different browser can see it and will let me know. (I'm using Safari on a Mac.) You can access the route here though.

I've been using Map My Run for a while now because I find it fascinating to know down to the one one-hundredth of a mile how far I am running. I want to to know precisely where my splits are so that I can time myself and fret over how I was a few seconds slower than yesterday. I rode my bike (I have an odometer on it that measures in hundredths of a mile) on part of my favorite 3.3 mile route one day so I could determine precisely where the one mile mark is. I've even considered carrying the GPS with me to get a better measurement. In other words, I'm obsessed.

Anyway, check out Map My Run. My recommendation is to select "Follow Roads" to make it easier. They still have some bugs to work out, but it's a great tool if you need an accuracy fix like me.

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