Need to map my Boise cycling training rides!
July 18, 2011 8:40 AM Subscribe
Is there a tool out there which will allow me to plug in the mileage I need for a certain cycling training ride, and will spit out a route that will get me that amount of miles? Maybe using Google maps or something? I'm in Boise,ID, if that matters.
Best answer: I'm a huge fan of Strava for finding rides. I think it's more powerful than MapMyRide.
posted by monkeystronghold at 9:09 AM on July 18, 2011 [1 favorite]
posted by monkeystronghold at 9:09 AM on July 18, 2011 [1 favorite]
Dunno about MapMyRide, but MapMyRun's become almost useless for finding new running routes since they introduced their iPhone/Android apps: the interesting manually-created routes get buried in a swamp of automatically-recorded "A run mapped on dd/mm/yy".
posted by We had a deal, Kyle at 9:25 AM on July 18, 2011
posted by We had a deal, Kyle at 9:25 AM on July 18, 2011
Best answer: Also check out Road Bike Rides Search by location, sort results by distance.
posted by adamrice at 10:18 AM on July 18, 2011 [1 favorite]
posted by adamrice at 10:18 AM on July 18, 2011 [1 favorite]
I agree with We had a deal, Kyle, that MapMyRide isn't actually that useful anymore. I never really found it useful when searching for rides because it didn't do a good job sorting out places with the same name--searches on Oxford England would turn up rides in Oxford MS and the like.
A couple other possibilities: Garmin Connect and RideWithGPS, which might have good rides depending on how many users they have in your area.
It's not what you asked for, but it's useful to get a sense of the different route segments you can ride and how to put them together for a ride of a particular length. If you know that a round trip to point A is 8 miles, and a round trip from A to B is 7 miles, you can go home-A-B and back for a 15-mile ride. You can use RideWithGPS or another program to play around with possibilities.
posted by brianogilvie at 12:13 PM on July 18, 2011
A couple other possibilities: Garmin Connect and RideWithGPS, which might have good rides depending on how many users they have in your area.
It's not what you asked for, but it's useful to get a sense of the different route segments you can ride and how to put them together for a ride of a particular length. If you know that a round trip to point A is 8 miles, and a round trip from A to B is 7 miles, you can go home-A-B and back for a 15-mile ride. You can use RideWithGPS or another program to play around with possibilities.
posted by brianogilvie at 12:13 PM on July 18, 2011
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posted by Vibrissa at 8:44 AM on July 18, 2011