September 2009: Mapmyrun/walk
By Gerard van de Ven
I have been asked a few times and I have also promised a few times to write something about this website. Apart from the slightly annoying advertising, it is a great website, both for setting out your training routes, but also for checking out how good you have done today and how far you really walked or ran. There are two different websites: www.mapmyrun.com and www.mapmyrun.walk. Apart from some different colours and advertising they are the same.
To just give you an idea of what you can do, I mapped out today’s walk we did when I daringly joined the A-team on their Sunday morning walk. I felt pretty tired after that, so I was interested in how far we had come in the about 55 minutes we were out there. This was the result, which took me less than 5 minutes to create (it looks quite nice in colour).
This told me it was 8.13km with one hill in there and a maximum elevation of 61m, starting from about 0m elevation.
So I started out to describe how you use this website and ended up with 5 pages in A4 format. Way too much for this newsletter. I have put it on our website instead. Go to www.runwalkhb.org.nz/mapmyrun.pdf and you can hopefully get started from there. It is a pdf document, so you will need Adobe to read it.
