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Since the last time a few of you have seen me i have taken up 2 new hobbies.

Darts and running

Laugh amongst yourselfs

Darts is great as it enables me to also enjoy my favorite other hobby of drinking

Running as the wife has signed me up for the half marathon Great West Run.

Not far some might say but for me its DEATH

The prob i have is printing training routes from like say http://www.run.com and it not giving me a full detailed page of my route.

Just a little square with loads of advertising crap around the outside on the A4 sheet i print off.

Does anyone know of another ROUTE PLANNER site where you can mark out your route that tells you the distance and prints it out big enough to read rather then a 10cm by 10cm square box or is there another way i can approach this ??

nope not got a clue and yep you are mad, im think its a secret training plan for beating age round pembrey

Whats a hoppie

Other than something I've been doing quite a lot of lately

don't know about route planners but when i first started running aimed for time more than distance would go out for half hour at a time, then after a while your feel yourself getting fitter then joined a running club, you'll find like most things that theres lots of mixed abilitys in the club and these will have routes, programs already set out, i never trained for half marathons, always trained for 6 miles, otherwise i personally would get no benefit from going any further, and would burn core fat i didn't have, that i would need for the half marathon, started racing at 6 mile distance, then started doing half marathons on the same 6 mile training, the first one i done was in 1hr 43 mins, within 4 months i was doing 1 hr 15 mins, have fun and thank your wife, that was nice of her to sign you up

use google maps mark, it zooms down into street level and you can plan your routes as you want them, will give you a distance aswell. its really easy to use

Darts

I've been thinking of joining a darts team. Niether Mel or I are origanly from Axminster so we don't know anyone here, even though we've been here for about 8 years. When we go to the pub it's with people from other towns. So thought this would be a good way to meet new peeps. (That's what's so good about this site, you meet a good bunch of friendly peeps through it).

Anyway just how do you join a darts team?

Hope I'm not thread pinching Blimey, sorry if am. Good luck with the running, are you doing it for a charity??

Mike Daytona600 wrote:Darts

I've been thinking of joining a darts team. Niether Mel or I are origanly from Axminster so we don't know anyone here, even though we've been here for about 8 years. When we go to the pub it's with people from other towns. So thought this would be a good way to meet new peeps. (That's what's so good about this site, you meet a good bunch of friendly peeps through it).

Anyway just how do you join a darts team?

Hope I'm not thread pinching Blimey, sorry if am. Good luck with the running, are you doing it for a charity??

Firstly cheers Moose it was obviously Hobbie

Went out and did my first 6 mile run today but stopwatch packed up and didn't get a true time. Felt great and could of continued me thinks but it was mostly flat, need to watch the old legs for work though

Cheers for the pointers of Google maps Si will give it a go.

Darts teams locally Mike apparently there are loads. I just asked about and couldn't beleive how many there were are going on.

In April, May time at West point there is the Whyte and Mackay Darts League tour with the likes of Taylor and Hart etc. Names to be announced. Price about £30 a ticket. Got to be a watch me thinks

You could try mapmyrun.com .Or get an ordnance Survey map of your area and follow yr route on a the edge of a bit of paper then measure it with the scale at the bottom of the map. Sound like a lot of work but it works .
GOOD LUCK WITH YOUR TRAINING & ENJOY UR HALF.
ps the pain will go away
GAZA

use google maps mate for the running, clicking on the options button too and select walking that'll give you routes.

Also change the view to sattelite so you can see the fields etc.

I know a few people who recommend this site http://www.realbuzz.com/flmroutes/ for routes

good luck with the run, tis a good run with good crowd support

If you have an ipod try the nike+ ipod, it's great for calculating how far you have run (once calibrated) and you can load all your runs onto their website.

I still use the route planner Miler put up as a link though as I like to plan a route and see how far it is before the run, it's pretty darn accurate though as the ipod come up with almost the same distance (within a few yards).

Thanks Linny and Gary.

Already spoken to Jason too on training tips so feel like i am heading in the right direction

Thankyou to to all the other replys, overwelmed with help and advice now