Thursday, March 19, 2009

Running in Bluford

Here's my 18 mile route. Going west and then through the town and then back out to back country of Bluford and back to the town. This should be interesting! I hope to find a person still. Haven't had any real bites. Otherwise, I'll just have to risk it and then persevere right through it again.

I have tried a couple different mapping programs but they all pretty much subpar for me. I started out with the one below, mapmyrun.com, which worked out great until they started making people have a paid account to print out & see the map without the ads. Then there's gmap-pedometer.com which doesn't have a login so I end up losing my maps most of the time because I have to save the link they give you somewhere. Then I found one called runningmap.com last night and started using it. But it's Yahoo! Maps and then it's also doesn't print right either but at least it does print a little.

What I really want is a way to get the course onto my Garmin 405 and then it will tell me when to turn left and turn right, etc. I was able to put a course on my Garmin from mapmyrun.com but it didn't tell me left or right. It just told me if I was on the correct course or not. I'll have to look around for help online.

2 comments:

Erin said...

The first time I went for a run after I moved, I wrote the street names of my route and then an L or an R for each on the back of my hand with a marker. Sure, it took a few days to wash off, but at least I knew I wasn't going to get lost!

Lindsay said...

Yea, problem is that some of these roads don't have names. And they probably won't have street signs either. I'm talking boo-foo back country! :-)