I use the website MapMyRun.com to map out runs of longer miles. I have a six mile route and a five mile route near home but use this website to map out anything over 10 miles. I’ve also used it to map my run in Arkansas and one in Cardiff last autumn. It is very handy. I’ve already mapped out my upcoming 15 miler and 22 miler. I use a Garmin GPS heart rate monitor when I run. It tracks me with satellites and tells me my pace, time and distance covered. It also tells me my heart rate and calories burnt. It is the best gadget I’ve ever bought, hands down. I plug it into my computer via USB and I can see every second of my run graphed out by heart rate, pace, elevation, percentage of maximum heart rate, etc. I discovered this evening that I can also upload this data to MapMyRun.com as a route. I was going to start putting a couple of maps up on here so you can see where I run. This makes that a whole lot easier. So, here you go. Here is my run from this evening, the speed work.
There should be a map here but it doesn’t seem to be working. You can, however, go to this link and see the map. I will try again tomorrow. I’m hoping it’s a problem with their website.
As you can see it is a seven mile run in total. That includes my warm up walk/jog and cool down walk home. I won’t upload a map every day as, for the most part, this route is where I am most of the time. I’ll be running it again tomorrow night to cover six miles. My other six mile route mentioned above is not feasible in the winter as there are no street lights in one section. I tried it once, couldn’t see my hand in front of my face for several minutes until a car went by, and now only run it in daylight at the weekends until summer brings us longer daylight hours. I’ll upload again on Sunday when I do a longer nine mile route. It will likely include Epsom again. Look out mainly for the 13 miler and above as they’ll have me going much more further afield.