{"id":96,"date":"2009-08-23T05:50:37","date_gmt":"2009-08-22T17:50:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.freefitnessguru.com\/blog\/?p=96"},"modified":"2009-08-28T01:03:13","modified_gmt":"2009-08-27T13:03:13","slug":"google-distance-calculator-for-running","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.freefitnessguru.com\/blog\/bodybuilding-2\/google-distance-calculator-for-running.php","title":{"rendered":"Google Distance Calculator for running"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"float: right; margin-left: 10px;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/share\" class=\"twitter-share-button\" data-via=\"gareththomasnz\" data-count=\"vertical\" data-url=\"http:\/\/www.freefitnessguru.com\/blog\/bodybuilding-2\/google-distance-calculator-for-running.php\">Tweet<\/a><\/div>\n<p>Man I just discovered something that kind of sucks. <\/p>\n<p>Check out this site : http:\/\/www.daftlogic.com\/projects-google-maps-distance-calculator.htm<\/p>\n<p>Its very cool and I have been using it to plan my runs. Basically I dont want you to make the mistake I made.<\/p>\n<p>Heres the track I have been running:<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.freefitnessguru.com\/images\/Screenshot-2.png\" alt=\"victoria park auckland\" \/><\/p>\n<p>As you can see the distance is 2.4 kms or 1.5 miles. So I thought I was doing great on my times on this track &#8211; OH OH &#8211; not true.<\/p>\n<p>By chance I turned on satellite view :<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.freefitnessguru.com\/images\/Screenshot.png\" alt=\"victoria park satellite view\" \/><\/p>\n<p>This gives me a much clearer image showing the tree lines and the actual track I run &#8211; as you can see its considerably different (shorter) than what I thought I was running.<\/p>\n<p>An honest mistake that unfortunately means my run times are total shit &#8211; 11.30 for a 2.4 km run.<br \/>\nThis is after I have blown my ass and told everybody how fast I was running the 1.5 mile.<\/p>\n<p>Heres my real track again:<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.freefitnessguru.com\/images\/Screenshot-1.png\" alt=\"vic park auckland\" \/><\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m not pissed that I made this mistake &#8211; such is life.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tweet Man I just discovered something that kind of sucks. Check out this site : http:\/\/www.daftlogic.com\/projects-google-maps-distance-calculator.htm Its very cool and I have been using it to plan my runs. Basically I dont want you to make the mistake I made. Heres the track I have been running: As you can see the distance is 2.4 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[315],"class_list":["post-96","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bodybuilding-2","tag-google-maps-distance-calculator"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.freefitnessguru.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/96","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.freefitnessguru.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.freefitnessguru.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.freefitnessguru.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.freefitnessguru.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=96"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.freefitnessguru.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/96\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":136,"href":"http:\/\/www.freefitnessguru.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/96\/revisions\/136"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.freefitnessguru.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=96"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.freefitnessguru.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=96"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.freefitnessguru.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=96"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}