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By Spiridon Rafter

Maintaining motivation is crucial to establishing a life-long fitness program, yet many people who participate in long distance runs find themselves quickly feeling bored and unfulfilled.

The secret to creating a healthy passion for running is to review your options and vary your running routes to provide an inspiring change of scenery. Another key component is to schedule 5-K runs and events that force you to get out there and train.

Your race results just might be enough to keep you fired up until the next running day.

Sharing Your Routes With Other Runners Online

A great resource for routes to run is the USA Track & Field website at www.usatf.org/routes. Using Google Map technology, America’s runners can map, measure and save their favorite routes to share with the community.

You can narrow your search based on a number of different criteria, such as city, state, country, distance, route rating, terrain, surface and type. You can look for routes near work, home, a hotel, a park, a set of trails, a school, a store or an athletic club.

Plotting Out Your Routes With Google Maps

You can choose a loop-out or a point-to-point style run. You can be a road runner or a sidewalk runner, on paved paths, unpaved roads or grassy trails. Not only can you find new hotspots for short and long distance running, but you can also look up how far your last route was by plotting it out using Google Maps.

Map My Run (www.mapmyrun.com) is another great source of routes for runners. Here you’ll find articles with running information, workout logs, running tools, running calculators, community groups and mapping software.

Join Other Runners In Your Local Area

This "interactive social network" promotes sharing of routes, pictures and stories from passionate runners. You can plot your routes over mountains with elevation software, through the woods using topographical maps or zipping down city avenues using the street view function.

You’ll be able to view 3-D and satellite maps of the routes you’ve selected and easily share this information with your friends. You can search the Top Runs, Events, Organized Runs, Local Runs and Running Teams in your area to find others who enjoy the same running passion.

Take Your Cell Phone With You

The Training Log and Training Plans are helpful in recording your daily activities and progress. Mobile applications are available to help you access your running routes from your cell phone when you’re on-the-go too.

The Runners World Online Training Log is an invaluable place to log running routes, accessible at http://traininglog.runnersworld.com/landingpage.aspx. You’ll be able to record the distance of your running workouts, as well as your cycling, swimming and other cross-training activities.

Track Your Progress

You can keep track of your time, distance, route, workout type, races results, heart rate, weight, calories burned, shoe mileage, interval times, weather, personal notes, quality and effort. You can view your monthly workouts at-a-glance with an easy-to-use calendar, as well as calculate the total time/distance you ran for the week.

With the site’s 12-month and 52-week graphs, you’ll be able to track your progress using colorful data aggregators. Mapping and measuring your favorite routes is easy on this popular website.

This Article was about Running Routes.

Please Note: All information given on this site is for general information purposes and is not to replace any medical opinion or medical diagnosis given by a qualified medical doctor, a dietitian/nutritional expert or any other medical expert, as individual circumstances may vary. Please see your medical doctor, before any action is taken to alleviate symptoms.

About the Author:
Spiridon Rafter is an author of exercise, diet and nutrition articles including Gatorade Sports Drink, Home Gym Equipment, Treadmill Vs Elliptical, Sports Drink Market, Bowflex Home Gym.
Keep a lookout for more of her articles coming soon.

More Facts About Running

When did running as a hobby and exercise become so popular?
If you want to find out when running became popular you would have to go back thousands of years ago to the ancient Olympic Games. Humans have long used running as a way to get where they needed to go. From there it is easy to see where it became a hobby and sport.

No one knows when it became popular because it has always been used. Some would say that it really gained in popularity in the 1970’s but that is shaving centuries off of the hobby. People have known for a long time that when they run they get someplace faster. The more you run the faster and better you become at it.