I have been running around here lately goo.gl/maps/cHhWK Close to home, and NO HILLS. It's very quiet in the morning - I can run right down the middle of the road with no problem and NO MAGPIES!!
Have a look ( hope this works??) - you can walk down the road too - it's a nice Queensland Winters day by the look of it.
Nice! I run down the middle of the road here too, but have to keep diving in the hedge when a car comes along (fortunately not too many if I go early). I can't run on the pavements of the sides of the roads here because they all slope for water run-off. Damn those civil engineers!
*or* not of ... you know what I mean.
Apologising on behalf of all of my CE colleagues 
Ah ha - so it's YOUR fault I have sore knees, is it!!?? I think Cambridgeshire CC should build a running track just for me!
Looks absolutely gorgoues, mate.
Green with envy! There is nothing as flat as that here....I want to do where I live, how did you do that Bazza?
AAH ! I KNEW that SOMEBODY was bound to ask me that!!!!
It is very easy -- but explaining it is not so easy. Try this:
1. Open Google maps
2 place the little Google Street view man at any point you want to show others.
3. On the LHS of the map, click on LINK ( a little chain link)
4. on the popup box, click on the "short URL " selection.
5. WRITE down precisely the short URL
6. Use that URL as a reference in your postings.
I am actually hoping that you and others can do this - as it is an interesting way to show one another what we are doing.
NB You can ONLY put the little Google man on a road or lane that has been mapped by their vans (highlighted in blue) If where you run isn't in blue you won't be able to do it.
PS -- Did you "walk" around the area?? You could go back to the next street and walk right down to the river where I usual run to My wife says most mornings " Where are you going?" -- I say " OH - just down to the river and back" . She only wants to know where to go to collect the dead body one day!!
Such a good idea. Looks like a lovely place to run and sound likes it's nice and peaceful too. Thanks for posting - this will turn into a very interesting thread!
As an exercise -- follow/walk down this road to my local river goo.gl/maps/feRux
Did anybody notice?? Bannockburn Road -- it doesn't look anything like Scotland!
Please answer -- who does NOT know how to use Google Street View??? Personally, it is for me the MOST wonderful thing that we have on the Internet. I could be without arms and legs and still travel the world with it.
For those not in the know - please send me an address - almost any address in the World - and we can walk around it
This is mine
google.com/maps/views/view/...
But you can't 'walk' round it because the google vans can't get down the forest tracks ! It's hillier than yours too Bazza. I'd love to try a road that flat and smooth.
Aah yes!!! - but I would prefer to run on the path that leads here goo.gl/maps/Pv7s9
All paths through the forest could get you there !!
Well, Bazza, I can get on to it but find it very difficult to manipulate and therefore 'travel' up and down the street or turn corners etc. My 14 year old gave up with me!
OK -- unfortunately there are a couple of versions of Google Maps - I have chosen to keep using the "Classic" version, but there is a new version out , which I think that Henpen90 above might be using.
The secret is to place the cursor on anyplace and hold the left hand mouse button down while moving the cursor. In my street view this will allow you to turn the picture around ( face the other way) or any direction you like. The next secret is to left click on a place further down the road - and it will take you there.
Play with it -- it's a computer - YOU CANT BREAK IT!!!!
Ah, but I can! The little men inside the computer know that it's me and start jumping up and down and making it go wrong! I'll show it to my husband and he'll say, 'It never does that with me!'
Seriously though, Thank you! I shall have a little muck about and see how I get on. Then I can visit all the places where I've lived abroad!
As Henpen said - it only works where the Google van has driven - so in your area, it seems like they must have stopped and started a few times , so you get some strange results when you click "down the road" . In my area, these clicks will walk you gently down the road. I LOVE Google Street view!!!!
Am suitably mollified and will try harder!!!
This is part of one of my routine routes. I run 1km from home to the edge of the village, then follow the road leading away from the village until this junction here. I run along the centre of the singletrack road and maybe only meet one or two cars in the 15mins or so, at any time of day.
I leave the public road here and follow the private road through the country estate (not on Google Streetview), tinyurl.com/lmvjz47 passing Beaufort Castle: tinyurl.com/ocx8azz
My route then follows a farm track running between the woods and fields and back to the village. tinyurl.com/kgwwgy5
Your country road looks a bit like mine. Do you have to run down the middle as well to avoid the sloping sides?
Yes, always. Even when the road looks quite flat with little camber, I stick to the centre to avoid any potential ITB problems.
I use the "classic" version of Google Maps - because I am very used to it after many years of use and I don't particularly like the new version. So the instructions I gave here as to how to create a link to a Street view image was for the classic version. When I click on your link it takes me to the new version of Google Maps -- which I suspect that many here might also be using. But I cannot see how to create a link to this new version.
Any chance that you could help out in this regard please?
I found instructions here: googlesystem.blogspot.co.uk...
However, although I have in the gear icon in the lower RHS, my pop-up box does not have the 'Share and embed' link. All the other options (My places, etc), are available, just not Share.
That's why I used TinyURL.
Reading through some comments on the site I linked to with the instructions, it appears the "share and embed map" in the gear icon disappears in Street View.
I think you must be using the new version of Google Maps. Next to the Gear icon, you should have a little question mark ??? if you click on the question mark ican , you will get a small popup box which then gives you the option to "Return to Google Classic maps" If you do that, my previous instructions should work for you.
I want to play this game but can't as I run off the beaten track and google vans can't access!
I do post pictures from time to time but not quite the same!
I'm loving some of your views!
I'd also love to join in, but the google vans haven't been round here. Or along the sea front on my nice flat route.
For those of you at all interested, these are the coordinates of the steep hill I run very carefully down:
33.826302, 35.587353
And these are the coordinates of the hairpin bend I in my profile pic that I have to get back up towards the end of my run:
33.817843, 35.594809
If you paste the coordinates into google earth then tilt a bit, you'll get an idea of the mountain I live part way up.
I usually go round the loop twice or run up and down a flat bit off the bottom part of my loop. Or do a figure of eight using another higher loop as well. Or I would if I could run 
Yes -- I do use Google Earth as a separate PC programme ( as well as the
classic" Google Maps through my web browser ) -- I find it very nice to view the topography of an area. I can see that your running area is almost 2000 feet above sea level - and the sea is only about 8klms away - so your tag should perhaps really be "RUNNINGONAMOUNTAIN NEAR BEIRUT"
Yes, it is quite a long way up, but I don't need an oxygen mask and the name tag might be getting that little bit too long 
In the summer it means there's less humidity than in the city and it's about 3 degrees cooler
Unfortunately it's also cooler and wetter in winter which isn't so good because the houses get very damp and don't have central heating or insulation. Mine is almost unique because it has double glazing!!
It's 5AM here - so I had better start to get myself ready for this mornings Parkrun.
Here is a view of the local park where it is held - about a 10 minute drive away goo.gl/maps/Skzoc The actual running/walking track is the concrete path alongside the river
I am lucky for Parkrun choice here - I have about 6 within a 30 minute drive of me
google.co.uk/maps/@52.46443...
Hope that works as the layout on my screen doesn't match the instructions Bazza1234 gave.
I run at random hither and thither all over and around my home town, but I find it particularly cheery when every so often I end up down by the quay.
W9R1 tomorrow...
yes it does work - I can see the canal and the boats and the little bridge.
Unfortunately this forum doesn't like the long web address - so to see your Street view , I had to copy the address in your posting across to the address bar in my web browser I could not simply click on the linked part of your address in your post - as it is only part of the address.
Here's my village in France, kindly found for me by Bazza. This is where I start, to the huge amusement of the locals sitting outside "The Bistro" They all think I am absolutely crackers! I have 2 routes, one longer than the other, that go around the bottom of Cordes, perhaps when I get back next year, I will be running over the top. OK, well I can dream!
google.com/maps/@47.6354144...
North bank of the Loire at Ménars near Blois. Between Orléans and Tours
Sorry Zev, that still doesn't seem right, it takes me to USA! Shame, I was looking fiorward to seeing where you ran, I know that area quite well x
It does work Curlygurly, but you need to copy all of it as far as 2e0! into the wab address line of your browser. Then you will see where I start my run on the north bank of the Loire at Ménars
After you get the link from Google Maps, you "should" reduce the long web address to a short one - you can either do that within Google Maps itself or do it here goo.gl/
Hence your long (and awkward link to the site at Menars) becomes this goo.gl/c3Tdwz
What a romantic place to run!!!! I love it!!
Last week , I came off the cruiseship here goo.gl/maps/NfNgS , ran on the grass about 1K to the volcanic plug at the end of the beach from this point goo.gl/maps/sCEdt , ran/walked/crawled up to the top and emerged on the other side here goo.gl/maps/AGDQ8
Running buddy where are you?!
Did my final run today!
Did you get rained on today?
Where did you learn about C25K?
Where did you buy your Garmin?
