Monday Fitness Blogging Cool Tools Edition
The GMaps Pedometer kills. You draw your running or bike route onto a Google map and it calculates the distance and, if you choose (gross) calories burned. The first time through you have to center it on your neighborhood manually, from what I can tell. But that’s the only drawback. I will use this a lot.
Comment by Jeremy Osner —
August 2, 2005 @ 8:19 am
Cool — does it know about hills? (And does going up and down hills have much of an effect on calories burned, or not — given that the route is usually a circle so ups and downs would cancel each other out)
Comment by Brian Hawkins —
August 2, 2005 @ 11:50 am
The satellite and hybrid views are especially useful when mapping out off-road parts of the route, too. I’d always just estimated those distances based on roadmaps.
I just found out I was running 0.4 miles further than I thought I was. Thanks, Jim!
Trackback by Monkeys and Typewriters —
August 2, 2005 @ 12:03 pm
More Fun with Google Maps
Jim Henley points out a really cool new application using Google Maps. Basically, it’s an interactive pedometer that lets you map out a jogging route…
Comment by Zack —
August 3, 2005 @ 9:43 am
That’s really cool. Now I have to wait till November (i.e. end of summer here in HOTlanta) so I can run outside.