I don't know if this is old hat but it seems a pretty accurate way to measure your mileage. I was a little disappointed to discover some of my 7.5 mile runs were more like 7.1 though!
I don't know if this is old hat but it seems a pretty accurate way to measure your mileage. I was a little disappointed to discover some of my 7.5 mile runs were more like 7.1 though!
I've never used the one on that site, but I've been using the Gmap pedometer for quite a while. Just a mod of google maps, but works pretty well.
Do not worry about it man these things do not take into acount elevation changes. Also the pictures can be a little off in some places.
Mileage variation due to elevation changes on any reasonable running route are small enough to ignore (i.e., less than your ability to accurately map the route itself). This has been discussed on other threads.
That's an awesome site! I've been using gmap for a while, but runningahead.com has a MUCH prettier elevation graph. Thanks!
As for calculating elevation, if you ran a mile with a continuous 10% grade, you've only ran an additional 26 feet, or 0.4%.
The elevation maps ARE better. Thanks from me too.
math nut wrote:
if you ran a mile with a continuous 10% grade, you've only ran an additional 26 feet, or 0.4%.
This intuitively seemed low to me. With all that climbing over the course of a mile, I thought it would have been more distance, so I went and calculated it myself. My intuition was wrong. It is only 26 extra feet.
Or approximately the difference between the mile start line and the common finish line on a 400m track.