Today's awesome walk, 8.77 miles in 2:22

[christopher575]

Today's awesome walk, 8.77 miles in 2:22, a photo by christopher575 on Flickr.

I was about to do my new normal 10-mile Friday walk, but the moon was so bright this morning that I didn't feel like turning my back to it. This gave me a chance to finally go over the Aurora Bridge again. I hadn't walked over it since 2004, and think about it pretty much every time I'm out walking and can see it off in the distance. It was a great walk for views, and if it wasn't for the hole in my foot growing bigger by the minute, I could have come home via Lake Union and the stairs of death. Some other time.

Glad I tried this route, soon it'll be too dark in the mornings for the Union Bay Natural Area, and maybe even for the Arboretum.

Big thanks to hildeaux for the app recommendation, it saved a nice clean GPX for me without all the jumping around that my regular app does.

Comments

[brokn2pieces.livejournal.com]

which app?

[christopher575.livejournal.com]

I was already using MapMyRun, but its GPS performs horribly for me and really messes up the maps, so I always have to re-draw them on the website. She recommended My Tracks and I used it for the first time today and was really impressed with how much better the mapping was. I was then able to import the GPX file My Tracks generated into MapMyRun. I might also experiment with the settings on MapMyRun to see if I can align them to the tolerances in My Tracks so I can save a step. But for now I'll use My Tracks to map non-routine walks. On Monday-Thursday, I just copy the same maps over and over since I go the same ways.

[hildeaux.livejournal.com]

woot woot