I did. Despite of nippy evenings, I opened my annual running season this evening. I’ve been doing it for 5 years. Unfortunately, I didn’t keep doing this healthy exercisers more then a month any year. I’m not going to make predictions about this summer, I just started it with hope not to give up as long as I can. I prefer to run accompanied by a friend. But today I was alone, and I made up for it listening to the radio in my mobile phone.
Some statistics:
- route length: 4.2 km
- time: 25 min
- on the Google map: April 5th running
- on the pedometer: route
To draw a path, I used a new feature of Google Maps - My Maps. There you can draw a lines on the Google map, assign captions and save it. Fascinating, but I feel a lack of necessary function - calculating the length of the drawn path. After I spent a few minutes searching the right tool to perform it, I bumped into lots of mashups - sites which combine plain Google maps with additional business logic, like calculating different paths which are generated by GPS devices or entered manually. You can find out what kind of useful functionality could be created using this modern Web 2.0 technique here.
So, to calculate the length of my running route I chose Gmaps Pedometer site. Everything was similar to what I did before on the My Maps service. I chose a check point tool, and marked all corners I passed. The length was summed up automatically.