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I’m doing my first Olympic distance triathlon this weekend down in Oregon. I wasn’t really planning on doing one this fall, but things just worked out. About a month ago I started stepping up my training–not nearly to an ideal level, but not so bad keeping in mind I have two kids and a full-time job. I shouldn’t drown…

Aluminum Man is a smallish triathlon down in The Dalles, Oregon. They’ve done what a whole lot of races have done–their course is plotted on Google maps. This is just about the perfect use of Google maps. The course is very straightforward, but small budget events like this have historically been very bad at map production. Using Google maps gives them a stellar online map in minutes.

They’ve mapped the bike and the run on the gmap pedometer site.

I used to use that free service until I found favoriterun.com, which I really like. It lets you create arbitrary routes, and then log exercise on those routes, creating a running/biking/walking log. favoriterun.com doesn’t let you track Kcals per exercise, but you can’t have everything. For free. Yet.

I’ll post a short race report after the fact next week. I’ll be sticking around for Monday in the ONE/Northwest Portland office hanging with Drew and Jon and talk about process mapping. I bet they can’t wait!

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