Comments on: Just what it says...Map My Run

Just what it says...Map My Run

konolia — Fri, 14 Mar 2008 20:37:17 -0800

MapMyRun.com

By: ericb

ericb — Fri, 14 Mar 2008 20:48:59 -0800

Be sure to check out companion site: MapMyRide.

By: Science!

Science! — Fri, 14 Mar 2008 20:53:08 -0800

Nice. Four clicks and I found a new route to try out on Saturday.

By: ericb

ericb — Fri, 14 Mar 2008 20:53:29 -0800

BTW -- there is also MapMyTri, MapMyWalk and MapMyHike, as well as a MapMyRun Facebook application.

By: Ogre Lawless

Ogre Lawless — Fri, 14 Mar 2008 21:22:05 -0800

Made for a nice light rail walk distance tally: I never would have guessed that one of my favorite ways is the shortest.

By: middleclasstool

middleclasstool — Fri, 14 Mar 2008 21:33:31 -0800

Hey, cool. I had been using WalkJogRun, but this is looking a little more feature-rich.

By: greasepig

greasepig — Fri, 14 Mar 2008 21:33:49 -0800

This is nice. You can even import your routes from gmap pedometer.

By: XMLicious

XMLicious — Fri, 14 Mar 2008 21:37:23 -0800

MapMyIndolence.com (Just kidding, but it should be) You were gone for a little while konolia, weren't you? Good to have you back.

By: caddis

caddis — Fri, 14 Mar 2008 22:23:46 -0800

I have seen a few of these, but this is by far the best yet. Thanks!

By: mathowie

mathowie — Fri, 14 Mar 2008 22:37:37 -0800

Bikely is my favorite place to find new rides.

By: spott

spott — Sat, 15 Mar 2008 02:51:02 -0800

Thanks mathowie and ericb, I knew about mapmyrun.com, I'll have to check them out. What I really want, is something like Topo, the old map program from the late 90s. It gave you nice, clean, zoomable topo maps where you could get elevation profiles and print out maps and such. Google maps has topo maps, but (in cities at least), they are incredibly busy and difficult to read. anyone know of anything like that?

By: Greg Nog

Greg Nog — Sat, 15 Mar 2008 06:23:06 -0800

Oh, sweet! Apparently, I run 3.7 miles in the morning. I had no idea how far my standard route was. This is keen!

By: Miko

Miko — Sat, 15 Mar 2008 07:06:30 -0800

MapMyTri? Never would I have dreamed of such riches. Goodbye, GMaps Pedometer. This is incredible. One place to plan and store bike and run workouts. You can search workouts that other users have created for your area, and you can tell it a mileage and it'll try to find a new one. Awesome, awesome.

By: nonmerci

nonmerci — Sat, 15 Mar 2008 07:30:07 -0800

Thanks! This is awesome. Now I know that what I *thought* was barely a 2-mile-run is in fact a 2 1/4! It feels so much more impressive looking at it on a map...

By: lothar

lothar — Sat, 15 Mar 2008 10:09:05 -0800

Bikely is new to me. Thanks. These are all useful. I wish, however, that they incorporated vertical. In my neighborhood, that's a lot of what makes a ride/run doable or not. "Klimb" has always been my goto app, but these online solutions have more user contributions.

By: desjardins

desjardins — Sat, 15 Mar 2008 10:09:40 -0800

MMMMMMMMMMMMmmmmmm, maps!!

By: loiseau

loiseau — Sat, 15 Mar 2008 10:13:59 -0800

Okay, so say I walk, bike and run, but not triathlon-style, just at different times. Do I have to sign up to three sites?

By: cheeken

cheeken — Sat, 15 Mar 2008 12:35:22 -0800

@lothar, when you pull up the map in MapMyRun, there's a checkbox on the left for "display elevation" which provides that info at the bottom of the map. that's also what makes it most useful for me, as a a 28 mile ride (I use mapmyride) with 100' of elevation increase is much different than the 28 mile ride that had 1300' of increase I went on last weekend. :)

By: cheeken

cheeken — Sat, 15 Mar 2008 12:39:23 -0800

Thinking further, though, isn't having four (MapMy: Ride, Walk, Hike, Tri) a little redundant? I mean, they're using the same app for each site, so why not have it one big MapMy community? It just seems overkill to me.

By: patr1ck

patr1ck — Sat, 15 Mar 2008 12:58:08 -0800

Awesome, found a new route just in time for spring training. :D Good post, would click again.

By: John Kenneth Fisher

John Kenneth Fisher — Sat, 15 Mar 2008 14:55:40 -0800

Excellent find, konolia. And great timing - I'm off to buy a bike. :-D

By: dylan20

dylan20 — Sat, 15 Mar 2008 16:11:24 -0800

Nifty. A few more bells and whistles than GMap Pedometer, which I've been using for over a year to map my runs. Nice feature of GMap Pedometer is that you can save each route as a unique URL, which you can then paste into a Google spreadsheet running diary. More homebrew, but it works for me.

By: sammyo

sammyo — Sat, 15 Mar 2008 18:41:08 -0800

Do take the pre-seeded runs with a grain of salt, this one I'd love to run except for the private club and chain link fence (not visible) half way through (between the lakes).

By: caution live frogs

caution live frogs — Mon, 17 Mar 2008 06:32:24 -0800

I found the point-and-click input thing a bit frustrating - wanted to see an "undo last point" button when I made a mistake but did not see an option for this. I did however see the "Import from Garmin GPS" link, and that is cool. Hooray for technology!

By: pithy comment

pithy comment — Mon, 17 Mar 2008 07:06:30 -0800

There is an undo button, and there's a cool feature to have it automatically follow roads, which I find nice running in the city - though if you run against traffic on a one way, it gets all confused.