After going for a walk or bike ride, have you ever wondered how many calories you burned?  Or how far you went? 

MapMyFitness, LLC offers a suite of web sites that help you measure the distance and calories burned of your walks, runs, hikes and bike rides.  You simply use your mouse to trace your walking, running or biking route on a map view (looks like a MapQuest-type map).  You can then type the time it took you to do the route into the “Workout Calculator” feature.  Click on “Calculate My Stats” and it will show you the distance and calories burned!  Just remember, the calories given will be an estimate because the system can’t take into consideration wind speed or direction, surface type, or changes in elevation.

You can also save your favorite routes and even share your routes with others.  In fact, one of the best features of the MapMy… sites is that you can learn about local routes from other users.  So if you are traveling to Washington, DC, you can view routes that the locals like.  (There are currently 504 walks listed for the DC area!) You can even save your routes to a GPS device.

There are many other neat features of the site such as a training log, newslestter, user stories and photos, a searchable listing of physical activity events, and much more.  Check out MapMyWalk.com and let us know what you think of this handy web site.