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July 2007

Hey there!
It's Adam and Jeff from WalkJogRun.net. When you created your account on the site, you asked us to keep you updated about the site so here you go. We hope you find this email helpful - and as always we love to hear from our users, so send us a note!

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Recent Site Updates

We've been busy working behind the scenes to make WalkJogRun faster from the ground up but we added two new features recently to improve your experience when you use WalkJogRun. The first new feature is the ability to use the scroll wheel on your mouse to zoom in or out when you are looking at a map. If you have a scroll wheel simply move it away or toward you while the cursor is hovering over the map. As you scroll the wheel you will see a red frame appear over the map showing the area the zoomed map will cover.

The other update is the loading image which appears when the site is doing something. When the site is under significant load you may experience a lag between moving, zooming or searching the map and any pins appearing. We added the loading image to give you some indication that the site is still working.

Upcoming Changes - You get to choose!

We're already working on streamlining the navigation to make it easier to find things but we need your help to decide which of the following two features we should build first. Why? Well honestly, because we do this in our spare time and there is only so much we can do before our wives start geting on our cases, so we figure if you help pick the features, we'll be making most of you happy! This time around your choices are:

  1. Pace vs. Speed vs. Duration - Several people have asked if it would be possible to enter your pace or run duration instead of entering your speed in miles per hour. If this option wins we will add a pace and a duration link to the status bar at the bottom so you can edit it and see your speed or duration calculated for you.
  2. Tagging route types - Another popular request is the ability to tag a route you create as a running route, walking route, cycling route or something else. Of course many routes can serve many purposes but the idea is to capture the original intent of the route creator. If this wins you will see a drop down box when you save a route where you can pick a route type.

Go cast your vote now!

Battling Peronial Insertional Tendonitis

Adam ran the San Diego marathon at the beginning of June and developed a pain in his left foot. He discovered that it was peronial insertional tendonitis and his blog posts since then were all focussed on his recovery and how he was able to get around it.

By the Numbers

We keep track of lots of numbers about the site here for different reasons. Some statistics let us know how much you love the site, others tell us which features you are using and some are just fun to see, like this one. There have been 85,247 routes added since the site was born 2 years ago and here are the top 4 cities in the world based on number of routes contributed. You can always keep tabs on your own city on the Cities Page. If you don't see your city listed, let us know and we'll add it.

Tips & Tricks

We’ve had a lot of feedback this month from visitors who want to be able to print the maps they make. Unfortunately Google's license prevents us from solving the problem at this point but we do have a workaround for you. One way around it is to view your route and take a screenshot which you can then print.

How to take a screenshot:

It's not ideal but it may help.

In the News

WalkJogRun has attracted considerable attention in the past but in the last few months it has intensified.

Back in May Lennie Magida at the Washington Post wrote a great article describing how to use WalkJogRun in detailed steps before introducing some other tools.

Next Erik Mika from Popular Science put a 5 point checklist together "Five things you didn't know you could map" featuring WalkJogRun on page 89.

Most recently Sree Sreenivasan at WNBC in New York featured the site as part of a Google mashup roundup piece. Unfortunately, the segment showed the site as WalkJogRun.com instead of WalkJogRun.net but thankfully the online resources listed it correctly.

If you've seen WalkJogRun mentioned somewhere - let us know!