If you ride or run a lot and like to quantify your workouts using GPS and maps, there are a few options open to you. With the recent advent of Google Earth and its 3D mapping of the Earth, you can track your workouts by drawing a trail by hand within its software.
Then Google Maps added the feature (drawing routes) to their web-based programs, and even calculated your total distance.
Then along came GPS units' improved interface with computers and said Google Maps, allowing users to download their ride/run and have the waypoints layed atop a Google Map. Units such as Garmin's Edge series will let you not only plot your workout, but also analyze all that data ad nauseum.
Now a new(ish) website can allow you to do the same thing. Map My Ride will let you draw your workout on their built-in Google Maps, then - using the built-in topographic maps - will calculate your total climbing, descending and even calories burned. Call it a "poor-man's GPS computer."
Now we can all know exactly how much we've climbed, how far we've gone... and know why we're so damn tired after our workouts.
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