This page links to websites about walking and walking fitness. If you know of a good website to link to, please send email to kpearson@horsetooth.net and let me know about it.
Walking/Fitness Information | |
How to Start Walking for Beginners | A free information guide from About.com on how to start walking. |
Walking/Fitness Tools | |
Gmap Pedometer | A free website which uses Google Maps to let you calcuate your walking route distances. |
MapMyWalk | A free website which uses Google Maps to let you input a starting address and desired distance and creates a walking route for you. |
Sports/Activities Which Incorporate Walking | |
geocaching.com | The most popular website for geocaching (an activity in which you use a GPS to find caches hidden at particular latitude and longitude coordinates and walk/hike to find the caches). |
Volksmarch | Non-competitive fitness walking: clubs and events. |
Walking Programs/Challenges | |
American On the Move | An organization which sets up community walking challenges to get participants to increase their daily steps to 10,000 per day. It also provides free online tools to help individuals increase and maintain their fitness levels. |
Walking Clubs | |
American Volkssport Association | AVA walking clubs and events. |
Canadian Volkssport Federation | CVF walking clubs and events in Canada. |
Locations | |
Walking Off the Big Apple | A walking guide to New York City |
Blogs | |
Families.com Fitness Blog | Walking | A blog about walking fitness for families. |
Walking for Fitness - Weight Loss - Exercise | A blog about walking for fitness. |