Users of mapmyrun.com or gmap-pedometer.com will be used to plotting their running routes on the web, and will also aware of the limitations of using Google mapping; the map detail is just not great enough to show footpaths across private land. Wouldn’t it be great to plot a route on a detailed OS map and download it straight on to your Garmin before setting out. Well, take a look at www.bikehike.co.uk<\/a>.<\/p>\n There, you can plot a route using both Google maps and the familiar sheet maps of the Ordnance Survey. We tried it, plotting a 10-mile route using some completely unfamiliar footpaths. The accuracy was sufficient to ensure we didn’t get lost, even in deep snow!<\/p>\n It’s a great way to discover new parts of the countryside either home or away in the UK.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Freezing cold, snow, ice, grey skies \u2014 nice warm house, toast, log fire \u2014 it can be a bit of a challenge getting out of the door for a run when the weather is like it has been in the UK recently. It’s certainly no fun on the roads, even dangerous on the ice. So […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[60],"tags":[343,344,345],"class_list":["post-1794","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-advice","tag-garmin","tag-map","tag-navigation","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/runningtrainingplan.com\/runningpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1794","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/runningtrainingplan.com\/runningpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/runningtrainingplan.com\/runningpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/runningtrainingplan.com\/runningpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/runningtrainingplan.com\/runningpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1794"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/runningtrainingplan.com\/runningpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1794\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1805,"href":"https:\/\/runningtrainingplan.com\/runningpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1794\/revisions\/1805"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/runningtrainingplan.com\/runningpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1794"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/runningtrainingplan.com\/runningpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1794"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/runningtrainingplan.com\/runningpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1794"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\nYou can also switch to satellite view to help out a little too.
\nPlot your route, download it to your computer as a gpx route and upload that gpx file to your Garmin and away you go.<\/p>\n![\"bike](\"https:\/\/runningtrainingplan.com\/runningpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/01\/bikehike-300x174.png\" "\\"bikehike\\"")
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