Bones in Motion

Earlier this week, I noticed lots of charts and graphs on TATUR Dave's blog ("Someone's been doing their homework... looks like USA Today."). Being the big nerd I am, I had to find the source of such cool and important looking figures. I noticed a reference to "Bones in Motion" in the comments section of Dave's blog, so I immediately asked the Google and found what I believe is one of the coolest running sites I've seen: Bones in Motion. I have been using MapMyRun faithfully for almost a year to track my runs. MMR has some quirks (one particularly perturbing one being that it will not read my Bass Pro Shops marathon information from my Garmin), but overall, I love the workout tracking application. (I like to look at the calendar at the end of a month and see little running icons all over it!) I've looked at other workout tracking apps since I began with MMR, including the Runner's World Magazine app, but I couldn't find anything that I felt was better than the MMR app. However, Bones in Motion may be the one that trumps MMR. I love the intuitive elevation statistics, and I really like the way it keeps track of each mile split. I think that BiM has a more accurate calorie count, and the ability to automatically post to your external blog is an added bonus. I don't plan on including all of the items below in every blog, but I did want to show what BiM is capable of in this post. The only thing it lacks that MMR has is gear-tracking. (And the little runner icons that fill the calendar.) I missed yesterday's run to give my knee and back a little rest (ugh, I'm getting old). Today, I went out for a very nice, casual 10 miles. I started at my house and ran to the Creek Turnpike Trail, then out to Memorial and back. Uneventful, aside from the awesome, cloudy sunrise. I need to find a hilly neighborhood in southeast Tulsa or west Broken Arrow. I think I'm done with the Creek for a while. Activity Route: -- Elev. Avg: 683 ft Location: Broken Arrow, OK Elev. Gain: -3 ft Date: 11/12/09 Up/Downhill: [+544/-547] Time: 05:35 AM Difficulty: 3.3 / 5.0 Weather: Fog/Mist 46 F temp; 96% humidity 46 F heat index; winds Calm Performance Distance: 10.14 miles Time: 1:26:57 Speed: 7.0 mph Pace: 8' 34 /mi Calories: 1194 Map Elevation (ft) Pace (min/mile) Splits Mile Pace (min/mile) Speed (mph) Elevation Gain actual +/- avg actual +/- avg 1 8' 41 +0' 07 6.9 -0.1 +16 ft 2 8' 33 -0' 01 7.0 +0.0 +33 ft 3 8' 39 +0' 05 6.9 -0.1 -62 ft 4 8' 54 +0' 20 6.7 -0.3 +42 ft 5 8' 38 +0' 04 6.9 -0.1 +32 ft 6 8' 34 +0' 00 7.0 -0.0 -52 ft 7 8' 28 -0' 06 7.1 +0.1 +13 ft 8 8' 37 +0' 03 7.0 -0.0 -39 ft 9 8' 29 -0' 05 7.1 +0.1 +16 ft 10 8' 18 -0' 16 7.2 +0.2 0 ft end 8' 38 +0' 04 6.9 -0.1 -3 ft Versus average of 8' 34 min/mile

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