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This episode looks at MapMyRide.com in relation to Townsville cycling routes and the new ipone app by MapMyRide.com

MapMyRide.com is a community web site for road cyclists and mountain bikers who want to stay healthy, lose weight or train more effectively. MapMyRide.com provides easy-to-use, comprehensive web-based cycling tools to measure distance and count calories.

In the last few months I’ve stirred up my ambition for cycling again. I would clasify myself as a Professional Cyclist. A few reasons for this -- other than the obvious colour coded uniform I do infact put up a fight in sprints against other cyclists. I go cycling most afternoons and complete about 38 km.

In recent months statistics have shown that cycling is becoming more and more common. Whether this is due to the amount of cars on the road or people just taking the initiative with Carbon Emissions. There has been such an increase in cycling that I would say about 2% of Townsville’s population cycles regularly.

There is one thing that really irates me. Yes, you guessed it. Drivers not giving way when the bike has right of way. Bastards!

If you have an ambition for professional cycling. I recommend going for it and training hard. I took the step and upgraded from my commuter mountain bike to a nice Avanti Road bike. (Below is a video of it)

The iphone by MapMyRide allows for easy integration with the services offered by mapMyRide. It has the ability to show you the route while cycling through using your iphone’s 3G connection. Software also work on iPod touch -- minus the real-time directions.

Using MapMyRide.com iPhone app, I was able to utilize the GPS chip and track my bike ride on April 19, I was able to log the distance and the exact path I took coming home. It’s free and pretty neat. The only downside is it used up a ton of battery. So not recommended if it’s your emergency phone. I’ll try and post my other rides when I get around to it. Sourced from: Stutopia

Here are a few of the links I mention in the podcast:

• Townsville City Council Website -- Riding
• A Townsville Cycling Blog -- Not a bad blog came across it a few months ago than stumbled upon it again today.
• Nicholas O’Sullivans’ personal diary / cycling expeditions in Townsville
• River to Strand, The Killer Ride.