First 2008 bike ride

[drewan]

I rode 7.26 miles last night. That's not to bad for my first bike ride of the season.

I rode east on 73rd/Diagonal Blvd, then north on Cedar Avenue South, cross over the 66th Street bridge and Longfellow Avenue around the cargo area of the airport. Then I crossed over 494 at 12th Street.

I had thought about trying to reach the nature reserve that minnehaha K had told me about during applecon, but I went a block past the American Blvd turn, came back and started heading east on American Blvd, then realized that I was starting to feel tired, so I turned around and took American Blvd back to 12th street. I crossed over 494 there and rode back north toward 73rd street, but then took a detour over a block to check out a little hidden pond/lake.

My whole ride took just about 50 minutes. I spend the last 10 minutes of my hour workout sweeping the garage.

Anyone have a good online tool for marking bike travel and saving it? I used Google Earth to measure my trail, but I can't save or export the path measurement.

Comments

[brianmn.livejournal.com]

I've played a little bit with http://www.mapmyride.com/, not sure about exporting, but it's got some neat features

[philhasablog.livejournal.com]

The name aside, I've found MapMyRun.com excellent. And I'm sure if you tell it you're running instead of biking, it'll still work.

[minnehaha.livejournal.com]

I liked google pedometer last year. Here's a 23 mile ride I did last year, saved to google pedometer. You'll want to zoom out a few steps to get the full effect.

Like the other suggestion, it's a tool for mapping runs, but it worked out for bike rides. It doesn't show in map view the bike paths, but sometimes you can see them in satellite view.

K.

[mrdreamjeans.livejournal.com]

Well, at least the young lady knows a handsome man when she sees one! :)

[mrdreamjeans.livejournal.com]

The above comment will see very strange unless you understand that I was commenting on a different post and it posted my comment to your post instead and won't let me delete it. So sorry!

HUGS!

[drewan.livejournal.com]

Huh? Still confused. Of course, that's normal.