The latest generation of telephones such as the iPhone have in built GPS and mapping facilities and when set p appropriately, can be used to measure your distance if you have them with you when you carry out your excise. The iPone also as a nuer oflow priced applications that can be downloaded and...

Oce you have walked, run or cycled a route you can find out how far you havetravelled by taking your car round the same route and measuring off the distance from the speedometer.

Map My Run is a website where you can map all you routes and save then as well as logging details of all you routes and training. It is free to register for basic facilities. Let us know what you think of this site and we will add the comments to this article.

Fetcheveryone.com is a social website that can be used to generate routes in a similar fashion to GMap Pedometer, share then with other members on the site as well as members of your own group.

G-Map Pedometer is an onliine facility which is based on Google earth and allows a way of moving a cursor over a map of where you have walked/run/cycled and when completed gives you the distance travelled as well as height profile. You can also save the route and share with other people. Hint -...

Ordnance Survey maps of the area can be used to measure the distance travelled using a piece of string as the most simplest implement, but you can also get a small wheel from outdoor shops that will measure the distance by running the wheel over the map.

When you go to the gym, most equipment used will have an on board monitoring device. Just set the distance you want to go and then follow the instructions!

When cycling you can use a cycling computer which records each revolution of the wheel and accurately measures the distance you have travelled as well as a number of other parameters such as time taken.

Many runners purchase a special GPS device which is just slightly larger than a watch and measures not only the distance you have travelled but also a number of other things such as heartrate, speed and pace to name a few. Measurements are also easily transferred to a computer. Measurements can be...

When walking or running a simple pedometer can tell you how many steps you have taken, you will need to measure your own stride and then multiply this by the number of steps taken. Pedometers can also be used successfully to measure distance you have travelled in aerobics and dance classes for...