a way to tell how many miles you are riding

[rockymountain]

Does anyone know of something that you can carry that is easy to use so that you can tell how many miles you are riding, maybe an app for the Iphone or a stand alone gizmo that actually works.

[Mr Ed]

I really doubt there is, unless you strap Sat Nav to the front of your saddle I tend to look on an OS map to track/measure any routes..

[Flipo's Mum]

runkeeper for the iphone - either the free one or the 'pro'. The pro was free in January, don't know if it still is.
It gives you mileage or km, time, speed, calories (but not for riding!!) and a little map of your route using google maps. You can use it while using your ipod and the pro will tell you aloud your speed, distance, etc. if you set it to update you at regular intervals.
Good app- you can pause it as well.

[No_Angel]

Garmin Mine is a 305, shows me how far I have gone, how quick I am going, my horses heart rate (or mine) and has way marking on it

[annareeves0]

I use mapmyfitness app on the iphone. Its fab but eats battery. Its easy to use, uploads a little map of your route and info to facebook or twitter (if you want to) and free On the downside it seems to keep running but as soon as I get back to the car and press a button (as in save/end run) the phone dies. I dont lose the route or info so thats OK but it just meant I had buy an in car charger

Just to add it will tell you your current pace, speed, distance travelled, show you where you are and where you've been on a simple google map and I have mine set up to speak all this info to me every mile http://www.mapmyfitness.com/

I have a personal GPS a garmin one - I cant use it properly only to back track the route Ive taken and can only upload a multi point route onto the program and then transfer to google maps and then have to use the distance measuring tool to check how far Ive been. Its generally pants (but does have geo caching on!)

[Yann]

Its fab but eats battery

Same with the app on my phone, which also logs the results on the web and overlays them on google maps The max speed feature is amusing
Endurance riders tend to use proper GPS gizmos like No Angel's Garmin.

Other than that you can use the GMaps Pedometer site to plot your ride to see how far you've been
http://www.gmap-pedometer.com/?r=4050947

[popularfurball]

And there is sporty pal which has an option for horse riding... I have had both that and mapmyruns on my phone for six months and failed every time to remember to set it off!!!!!

[annareeves0]

Originally Posted by Yann

Endurance riders tend to use proper GPS gizmos like No Angel's Garmin.

Thats interesting as I had presumed they were not allowed as their use will get you disqualified in Le Trec as part of the point was map reading. A marked route is soooo much easier!