Now that I am going to take my reservist IPPT in a month’s time, I am starting to see the need to go running regularly. As I put on my running gear for the first time after god knows how long last week, the ignorance of distance I would be covering came to me as a concern. Without knowing the distance I would be covering between 2 points, I would not be able to accurately gauge my improvements of subsequent trainings.
The first possible solution that came to my mind was to ask a friend who is a professional marathon runner, hoping that he would happen to know the distance between the 2 points that I plan to run.
So I called him up.
“Hey come on dude, how the hell would I know?! You can check it yourself at Google distance calculator though.” was his reply.
I have to admit that I am a mountain turtle when it comes to the virtual technologies. I didn’t know that there was such a thing before that day. But it is never too late to learn I guess.
From then on, I never have a problem in gauging the distance between any 2 points that I plan to carry out my trainings.
Have you guys ever been too ambitious and underestimated the distance between 2 points? The moment you started your run, you realized that it was a huge mistake. You ended up taking a bus home.
I had.
But with Google distance calculator, I can now gauge beforehand whether the distance between a certain 2 points is too far for me to conquer at my current fitness. How awesome is that!
Of course, this is definitely not the sole purpose of Google distance calculator. You can even find out the distance between 2 different cities if you are planning to go on a road trip or a backpacking trip!
I shall not speak too much about it and let you guys explore it on your own. Let me end off by showing you guys a screenshot of an example of my running plan, and of course, provide you guys with the link!
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