Sunday Running and MapMyRun
The weather today has been awesone (extraordinary warm for these days of the year - about 26 degrees Celsius at about 1 PM, it felt quite like summer) so I took the chance to get back to running (having been kind of lazy during the last months). I chose a pretty usual route: the esplanade from Cesenatico to Gatteo Mare (with a little tour across Gatteo Mare “docks” to Savignano Mare esplanade); the run went pretty well about 11 Kms in about 1 hour and 6 minutes. It has been a while since I thought to give MapMyRun a try, so I took this chance for a real test-driverun. The service (built on top of Google Maps service) is very nicely accomplished: it provides simple and effective tools to draw your route (an handy “Out and Back” function to automatically draw the way back, and also a loop function), it lets you easily export your route to KML or GPX (this really comes handy for the bikers out there who go for longer and more complex routes) and the user interface is responsive nonetheless the heavy javascript-ing going on under the hood (quite impressive). As a last note (big point for blogger’s big ego gratification) the service lets you easily embed the map into a blog post (to be fair, it uses an evil(tm) iframe).
Runners Note: on this route there are two part “under construction” (works should end in three weeks); one (about 500 mt) between the end of Valverde and the beginning of Villmarina, another at Gatteo Mare docks (Savignano Mare side).
I’ve just used MapMyRun to calculate the distance of my “usual” track and noticed that it’s more or less half of what you did run today. How embarassing.
I enjoyed the sunny afternoon, too, but with a slow-paced walk to San Luca (for a total of 4.43 Km, according to MapMyRun).
Comment by Giulio Piancastelli — March 3, 2008 @ 2:32 am
MapMyRun ???
I mean…. I’ve never heard the verb “to run”, isn’t it a very old verb that explained, in the early 800, the fast action of moving ?
Is it right for motorbike too ?
Comment by Marco Ramilli — March 3, 2008 @ 7:21 pm
@giulio: to be fair this is “usual” for week-ends… during the week I opt for a shorter (6 to 7 km) route to get the workout completed, stretching (pre and post) and shower included, in about an hour.
@marco: yep very ‘800; the running pace is very ‘800: 10 km per hour is about the running pace of the first marathon (the actual length of my beard could also give strength to the hypothesis I’m from the ‘800). For what concerns the “vehicle”, you have plenty of choice: bicycle, bike, motorbike… or “bare foot”
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Comment by questionmark — March 3, 2008 @ 7:52 pm