WalkJogRun.net

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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New Feature

Last month over 150 of you voted and we listened. It was clear pretty early that the majority of you wanted to be able to set your speed by entering your pace in minutes per mile. We not only built the feature but went one step further - you can now also click on the run duration and enter the total number of minutes for your run to see your speed and pace calculated.

New Vote

Once again we want to give you the chance to influence what we build next. We have the feature that was outvoted last month and three new ones: elevation, water stops and bathrooms and draggable turns.

• Elevation: Until now WalkJogRun has been tracking the elevation of each click you make along the route but not displaying a course profile. If this is the winning feature this month, you will see elevation graphs for each run in the listing screen and in the route overview when you click a route to see the bubble.
• Water stops and bathrooms: This is a really practical idea if you are familiar with running longer distances. For every hour you run, the average person needs to drink 8 oz of water. If selected, we'll add the ability to add markers to the site indicating bathroom and water fountains/bubblers along the way.
• Draggable turns: It seems every week Google adds new features to their Google Maps system presenting us with new opportunities to add features. One such feature is the ability to drag markers around. This would make it easier to make corrections to your routes either as you are creating them or after your run, as mentioned in the tip of the day.

Cast your vote now!

New Numbers

We're always amazed by the sheer number of visitors who use our site every single day. In the past 2 years over 2.5 million people have visited the site and since our last newsletter in July we broke the 100,000 routes mark! A big thanks go out to all of you.

Another thing about the site we get a kick out of is just how small it makes the world seem. Adam was recerntly browsing around WalkJogRun by zooming out to the country level and dragging the map around and saw routes in Iraq! Further inspection uncovered routes in India (predominantly Delhi), Russia (predominantly Moscow), South Africa , Australia, China , Japan, South Korea and all over Europe. Last year, Adam used the site to plot routes in Greece for his honeymoon.

Here's a bonus tip: If you find an area of the map that doesn't show street level detail you can always try switching to Satellite or Hybrid view (in the top right corner of the map) to at least see satellite photography of the area. This can be useful for plotting off-road trails and in some cases people have used it to plot kayak routes down rivers!

New Blog Posts

Since the last newsletter, the biggest event Adam has blogged about was training with his wife for a half marathon, the Chicago Distance Classic:

• Marathon ramp up starts here - describes Adam's training plan to get him from the half marathon to the full marathon on October 7th.
• Two weeks to the distance classic - offers some tips on running in the heat.
• We Finished - describes the race.

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Members Helping Members

We would like to point you to a long time WalkJogRun member's fundraising page. John Cihocki is running the New York Marathon in November to raise money for the Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation. This is his first marathon since he was diagnosed with type one diabetes so please help him if you can. Good luck, John!

Tips & Tricks

Modifying a route

We've been getting a lot of requests this month from people who want to modify existing routes so we thought we would explain it here for everyone's benefit. When you are viewing an existing route you can extend the route by clicking new points; conversely you can click the "remove marker" link to take away the last point(s) added and backtrack to the point where your route changes. Once you have finished modifying the route hit save and you are presented with different options depending on your relationship to the route:

• If the route is someone elses or a guest route - you are given the option of save your changes as a new route.
• If you are logged in (with a free account) - you are given the option to update the existing route or save your changes as a new route.

In the News

As before, if you've seen WalkJogRun mentioned somewhere in the news - let us know!