Use MapMyRun To Track Your Training
Written by Alan Saturday, 19 February 2011 08:00
If you are a runner and a fanatic, as most runners are, about stats like distance, time, pace, etc then MapMyRun is something you may want to add to your tool list. MapMyRun can do a lot of things – allow you map out course and get the distance and elevation of them, view routes created by other users, keep a comprehensive log, and many other things.
The primary focus of the website, as implied by its name, is mapping out runs. This is simple to do – with just some mouse-clicking you will soon have route laid out and have the exact distance and elevation changes. You can also save your routes so that you can build up a collection of choices you can peruse next time you are looking to do a run of, say, 5 miles.
You can enter all of your run’s statistics into the online log – even such information as heart rate, weight, calorie consumption for that day, hours of sleep, and personal notes. Just click on a date in the calendar and begin entering all of your info.
While those are the two main features of the service you will need to go there, create a free account, and play around with it for yourself to find all of the cool, but lower profile, features. There are also mobile apps available for iPhone, Android, and Blackberry.
When I started running in high school cross country my consisted of a notebook of lined paper and a pen. It’s amazing how far everything, even something as basic as running, has come.
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