Miles

[Deleted User]

How do you know how many miles you run?

[Deleted User]

Buy a Timex SDM! Or gauge the pace you're at per mile and divide that into the time you've been running - this takes experience to reasonably judge though...

[Deleted User]

See the Beginners Q&A thread on the beginners forum

fat buddha

buy a map

Hilly

Road routes can be measured using a bike or a car, which may not be spot on, but better a good guide.

Hilly

Sorry should say are a good guide.

Treadmill

The Timex sdm is a wonderful gizmo. Buy it over the internet from the USA and you'll save £60-70 even after VAT,
DCD

[Deleted User]

If you run on road, try going to www.map24.co.uk/

There's a facility to measure (I think pretty accurately) distance. You put in the post code of where you start and then plot your route using the mouse. You move the grid that you're viewing with your cursor keys and can even zoom in and out. The only drawback is that it only does it for road so is a bit useless if you run off-road. Much cheeper than a Timex SDM though!

Rob

[Deleted User]

I use Microsoft Autoroute 2002. Allows you to draw the route on the roads where you have run and gives a very accurate miles or kilometres reading!

[Deleted User]

This has been covered a million times in earlier threads, but :-

1. Don't use a pedometer (very inaccurate)
2. Cars are accurate to within 10% (not great)
3. GPS e.g. Timex SDM are accurate to within 2% but obviously expensive,
4. Map measuring is the most accurate usually better than 1%, options are :-

* http://www.maps24.com - has maps but only roads and streets

* Mechanical map measurers with a paper map works quite well but can be fiddly to get accurate results.

* Ditto, for peice of string or dental floss

* Software like http://www.trailgauge.com or http://www.accuroute.co.uk is the computerised equivalent of a mechanical map measurers, they are easier to use and more accurate but they don't come with maps. You'll have to either scan a paper map or download an image from one of the internet map sites.

Actually I discovered that Trailgauge will automatically download maps for you if you change a registry entry. It seems it has the old MapGrabber app built in but has been disabled for some reason. When I tried it though it worked perfectly, you just select your town and tell it how big you want the map and it downloads it for you ready calibrated for use.