Featured Website: BreakingTheTape

Tired of the current way you track the running, cycling, swimming and whatever activies you do. If that’s the case you might want to check out BreakingTheTape (BTT) - the online resource for athletes.

The site was developed by Jeff (aka Aginghipster) and Reece. They were tired of using different applications to track workouts, blog about them, analyze them, map them and display them. So, rather than wait for something to be developed, they created their own one-stop place and decided to share it with other athletes. The site offers blog hosting, workout tracking, mapping links, analysis tools and creative ways to display your workout information in the body of your blog entries.

With BreakingTheTape you can:

• Add workouts including time, location, workout type, weather, notes, etc. Pace is calculated automatically and values are stored to allow the athlete to display their data in imperial or metric format.
• Include gMaps pedometer links to your workouts, or upload an XML document (coming soon!) from your favorite GPS and have gMaps map it for you.
• Graph your sports, workouts, routes and distances in numerous ways. A number geek’s wildest dream!
• Drop easy to use scripts into the sidebars of your blog to show accumulated distance, projected race paces or into the body of a blog entry to show your last workout.

The home page includes:

• A center area listing recent posts by bloggers using BTT as their host.
• A Main Menu on the left with Home, News, BBT Blogs, Links, About BBT, Sign Up! and Contact Us.
• A Login area at the bottom of the left sidebar.
• The Right sidebar list recently logged workouts by members.

Sign up is quick & easy, just click the link in the Main Menu on the left. I’ve been using it since early 2006 and love it. Definitely worth checking out to track your 2007 workouts.

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