Measuring distances

McNamee · Post by **McNamee** » Tue 08 Feb, 2005 11:05 pm

Has anyone got any suggestions on how I can measure (fairly accurately) how far I have run? Like a GPS system or somthing?

Cheers

HotShot · Post by **HotShot** » Tue 08 Feb, 2005 11:13 pm

A Bicycle with a speedometer which measures distance on it...that's what I use.

Daveb · Post by **Daveb** » Wed 09 Feb, 2005 9:42 am

If it's a road route you take, take a car along the route and measure it out using the milometer (spelt right?).

Fow22 · Post by **Fow22** » Wed 09 Feb, 2005 5:03 pm

Daveb wrote:If it's a road route you take, take a car along the route and measure it out using the milometer (spelt right?).

Hmmm, I've heard it called an "odometer", but a "milometer"?

beardo · Post by **beardo** » Wed 09 Feb, 2005 5:12 pm

its called a mileometer because it measures miles, not ''odes''

Ghost · Post by **Ghost** » Wed 09 Feb, 2005 6:30 pm

Get an OS map and measure it out with a ruler.

Ghost

seamaster · Post by **seamaster** » Wed 09 Feb, 2005 6:31 pm

Does that mean cars in Europe have Kilometreometers?

beardo · Post by **beardo** » Wed 09 Feb, 2005 7:00 pm

no, as has already been said, they have milometer

GARRYOWEN · Post by **GARRYOWEN** » Wed 09 Feb, 2005 8:56 pm

Sheet of paper and a map.

Fow22 · Post by **Fow22** » Thu 10 Feb, 2005 12:30 am

beardo wrote:its called a mileometer because it measures miles, not ''odes''

Looks like we were both right:
http://dictionary.reference.com/search?q=mileometer
http://dictionary.reference.com/search?q=odometer

markthestab · Post by **markthestab** » Mon 30 May, 2005 12:16 am

http://www.uk.map24.com/

use this bad boy, its got a distance planner as long as you know where you live its a peice of p*ss

Devils_Advocate · Post by **Devils_Advocate** » Mon 30 May, 2005 12:51 pm

For wiggly routes a piece of string does the trick

lew · Post by **lew** » Mon 30 May, 2005 1:40 pm

Get one of those meter measureing devises on a wheel that clicks everytime it makes a full rotation and take it running with you.

lew

Gazza85 · Post by **Gazza85** » Mon 30 May, 2005 4:15 pm

markthestab wrote:http://www.uk.map24.com/

use this bad boy, its got a distance planner as long as you know where you live its a peice of p*ss

Thanks mate. Thanks god for that, i thought i was taking 40 minutes on a 3 mile run everymorning, its 4 miles.

markthestab · Post by **markthestab** » Mon 30 May, 2005 7:09 pm

i had the opposite effect, i thought i was a sh*t hot para(albeit only doing t.a p coy

) wannabe running 4 miles in 23 minutes and im actually running 3.4 miles

ego's taken a bit of a bruising thanks to that bloody map

for all the people going on about mileometers and other contraptions why bother?

millions of pounds has been spent making sure our country's maps are accurate, so if you know how to find you route on one why not take advantage of them, the link i posted is especially easy as you just type in your street name you start on and the city its in and you can plan a route from the accurate to there nearest .01 of a mile

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