How would I go about finding a mile long jogging route?

dboundy

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Right, so I want to bump my fitness up starting tommorrow and I am going to start by doing a nice jog say 1 mile to 1.5 miles long.

I do not have any idea though where I could run (a route) that would be 1 mile / 1.5 miles long.

Anyone got any ideas please. :D
 
Drive in your or a car and when you see the odometer reachs 1 to 1.5 miles further you have your distance.

That wasn't that hard was it?
 
dboundy said:
Right, so I want to bump my fitness up starting tommorrow and I am going to start by doing a nice jog say 1 mile to 1.5 miles long.

I do not have any idea though where I could run (a route) that would be 1 mile / 1.5 miles long.

Anyone got any ideas please. :D
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Run around a school running track 4 times..thats about a mile
 
dboundy said:
Right, so I want to bump my fitness up starting tommorrow and I am going to start by doing a nice jog say 1 mile to 1.5 miles long.

I do not have any idea though where I could run (a route) that would be 1 mile / 1.5 miles long.

Anyone got any ideas please. :D
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West Park is a mile or near as damn it if you run round the perimiter on the inside :)

Try not to chat up my mrs who will proabably be running round as well :p
 
go for a walk and think that 1 step = anything between .5m and 1.0m depending on how tall you are.

Obviously measure the length before you go out.
 
PhilthyPhil said:
Don't worry about the distance, it's really not important. Just go out and run for whatever time/distance you feel comfortable with.
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The problem with this is, you then run the one way distance and think "Right, that is enough" but you have to go back home again. :(

Go where ever the wind takes you and back again. Increase until you get a comfortable distance.
 
How do you find a route that is a mile long? My god man I have finally found a use for a MAP! *wanders off grumbling*

SiriusB
 
Amleto said:
local AtoZ and a piece of string?
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Thats how I measured my route for my training for Race For Life, thing is I think you actually run further somehow because my times for my 5km practices were 38mins and for the actual race it came in at 30.44 :\

So either the clock was wrong (unlikely) or I ran too far in my practices (more likely).

BB x
 
PhilthyPhil said:
Actually, can't you trace your route with google maps?
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Never tried lol

You could wait till July and Get some Nike+ and a nano iPod that will tell you how fat you have run. thinking about getting that and starting jogging :eek:

edit should be far as pointed out teehee
 
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my girlfriends sister has just took up running, she asked if she could borrow my computer. when I switched it on for her, she loaded a website which had a map on it at ordenance survey sort of scale. you then traced your route with the pointer and it calculated the distance. the catch is I can't remember the site addy, sorry! but there are more high tec solutions than a map if you want them.
 
JUMPURS said:
that will tell you how fat you have run.
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Was that a freudian slip :)

Actually I still can't see how the Nike/IPOD thing works.
It isn't GPS so you must have to put your stride length in.
If that is the case then peoples strides change depending on their run.
:confused:
 
Just been told it is a mile long round West Park, something to do with it being
a training ground for race horses years ago :)
 
go to the nearest starbucks, and run until you find the next one.. at most, theres only 2 miles between each one..
 
dmpoole said:
Was that a freudian slip :)

Actually I still can't see how the Nike/IPOD thing works.
It isn't GPS so you must have to put your stride length in.
If that is the case then peoples strides change depending on their run.
:confused:
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Ahhhhhhhhhhh hahahahah thats quality i never noticed lol

Its never going to be 100% acurate but when people take a steady pace running i dare say its pretty constant, but i am no scientist ;)
 
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