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Mapmyrun.com is brilliant

12 years ago•14 Replies

It does actually give you the exact mileage for a run (I don't have a Garmin or similar device), but this site allows you to map the run wherever you run, not just on roads; you can go across fields, and golf courses, down paths and trails and round parks. It also has a great nutrition section and it tells you how many calories you can have a day and works out how many calories you've burned according to your activity. It also maps all sorts of other activity, including lawn-mowing etc! It also builds up a database of your distances, times, time per kilometre etc and graphs it all. The ads are a bit annoying, but are easily ignored. A great site which I'm sure does all sorts of other technical stuff - I've probably only scratched the surface - but very useful.

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RollertoasterGraduate12 years ago

Yeah it's great isn't it! I love it and would be lost without it. Now I have graduated the mapmyrun bot is the new Laura, guiding me on my progress!

It also really helped re-motivate me in later weeks when I felt I wasn't seeing progress. Looking at the graphs, ave pace, splits etc showed me I really was!

BurstcouchGraduate12 years ago

Use it every time I come back from a run and have found it really useful too.

I once used the app on my on my phone too and it recorded accurately.

GoogleMeGraduate12 years ago

I use walk4life which is free and no ads and very simple (though I could wish it had 21st century measurements, still in miles) On the website (but not the app) they have the proper OS Explorer maps.

VivwestieGraduate in reply to GoogleMe12 years ago

Ooh, I'll have to have a look at that for our long Sunday dogwalks. Thanks.

SpudGraduate12 years ago

I use MapMyRun app on my Android phone - it almost always works perfectly & tracks my run. It is great to keep monitoring progress on distance / time etc

psarapsychGraduate12 years ago

Hi Vivwestie, I use sportstracker.com. They have an app for android so I have it running with me and then it syncs my run to their website where I can make comparisons. I've got the free version on my 'phone and there are no ads. But I'm going to look up your mapmyrun too

VivwestieGraduate in reply to psarapsych12 years ago

Thanks, Psarapsych - I'll look at that one too. Although I don't have an android or iphone, just a very old itouch that won't load any new apps :-(.

OldNedGraduate12 years ago

Yes, but..... I also use MapMyRun and agree that it's really good. I use the app on my newly acquired smartphone (Blackberry) and I think it's excellent, not least because it synchonises automatically with my MapMyRun account on my laptop at home, and shows a map of where I've run. But I've noticed an odd thing about distance - the phone app and the laptop map show different distances for the same run. Yesterday I ran 10.26 Km, according to the phone, but the laptop map, for the same run, showed 10.13Km. This isn't the first time this has happened and it's not a big discrepancy, true, but I can't help thinking they should be identical.

Anyone else had this issue?

in reply to OldNed12 years ago

Yes I have. One run came out 2k more and when I looked at the map the route was zig-zagging all over the place. That's when I gave in a bought a Gaming. Still use Mapmyrun though. It's great for keeping up the incentive. I was told my Android used mobile masts obviously but less accurate in country areas....better in the town.

in reply to 12 years ago

Oops should read Garmin!

SBG356Graduate12 years ago

Until I treat myself to a GPS watch upon graduation I am using mapmyrun too and love it! I map my runs when I get back like burstcouch and look forward to seeing how far and fast I went. I also use it to map a route in advance and to work out a 5k route for when I get to week 9 and the 30 min runs.