Strava helps you find the running and cycling route in a new city

A couple of months ago we wrote about jogging heat maps cities around the world and how to do this for their runs. But there is an easier way to see, where to run and ride bikes to almost anywhere in the world. Strava - interesting service, which adds to the analysis of workouts number of cool chips, such as segments and competition - made a world heat map on the basis of nearly 100 million activities of its users.

With Strava Global Heatmap very easy to see how the global picture and to your neighborhood in the city, as long as it went on and ran Strava users. For example Europe:

But Kiev:

Zoom in more, it becomes possible to consider the individual routes in Goloseyevsky forest in which I like to run long crosses:

In the settings you can select which types of activities display: running, biking, or both. Now to pit considerably more is conducted, because originally this service was created just for cyclists, and only relatively recently they have started to develop it for the runners too. If you look at Moscow jogging and cycling, this difference is noticeable to the naked eye.

Also in the options it is possible to select different color schemes map display and route, I really liked the dark blue on the map. Here is the Sydney routes in different colors:

Of course, Strava Global Heatmap - is primarily a service to poshtyrit at pretty pictures, but you can use it from a practical point of view. For example, when planning a trip, in which you take with running shoes and you're going to run in a new place, I always do that, because it's probably the best way to see the city in a short time.