Yesterday lunchtime, saw me on a 2-mile power walk around the outskirts of Taunton!
I had consulted www.mapmyrun.co.uk to get route distances and I was off! My 2 miles took me around 25 minutes, so a good starting pace, though not quite sure I could keep it up for 26 miles..... not yet anyway!
As I completed my circuit a text dropped in from Rich in the office saying they were in the pub for a quick drink and chips if I wanted to join them.... So I walked there too (another 0.4 of a mile according to my pedometer...it all counts!) and had a pint of Guinness (I only ordered a half, honest!). I expect that's not strictly part of the training regime, but still.
Anyway. The walk. 'Mapmyrun' is a great webpage for sorting your routes and I will definitely be using it a lot in the coming months, but unfortunately it only follows roads, rather than footways/footpaths. Half of my route was along grass verges as there wasn't any footpath, so I got wet feet and the HGV's whistling past wasn't much fun either. When I did get to a footpath I couldn't get on it, as I was the wrong side of the guard railing! As a transport engineer, (well, someone's got to be!) it was an 'interesting/enlightening' experience for me! I spend a large proportion of my working day looking at improving sustainable modes of transport, walking, cycling, etc and here is the perfect opportunity to genuinely check out the accessibility of some pedestrian routes!
I will look for some similar web pages to 'mapmyrun' to see if there are any which include footpaths and I'll get some revised circular walks for future lunchtime soirées!
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Hi - mampmywalk.com (which I think is the same technology as mapmyrun allows you to select a hybrid view (on the right hand side of the page)
This shows streets as well as airial photo's (like Google Earth) so if you zoom in far enough you can see the footpaths and map your walk to them. If you struggle to see them you could use in conjuction with the ordnance survey or Collin's Bartholemew view on multimap which shows the footpaths marked.
Also if you don't mind out and back routes and it covers your area then walkit.com can generate quiet and pollution free walking routes in cities.
Gill x
Thanks Gill. I tried mapmywalk, but it just re-routed back to mapmyrun.....! I'll try again, perhaps I'm doing something wrong!
Dawnx
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