Ever go on an adventure from point A to point B and wonder exactly how far it was you travelled? The awesome gmap-pedometer can answer your questions.

As a runner training for a marathon for the first time, I found myself wishing I had an easy way to know the exact distance a certain course is, without having to drag a GPS or pedometer around on my runs. Looking at Google Maps, and knowing there was a vibrant community of geeks hacking it, I knew there had to be a way. Note that there’s a reason this is called a pedometer. Considering that you have to choose all the points in your route individually yourself, it’s probably not suitable for driving trips and the like. But I’ve found it suits my purposes pretty well for getting running distances.

This google maps hack is great. It lets you easily plot as many points as you wish along your way and calculates the total distance, as well as lets you save your path as an external link to the site. RyanO and I were out on our single speed bikes this afternoon and knocked off a refreshing early spring 20km for me and an even better 30km for him.