More Precision

Found a new website called www.runfinder.co.uk/ that takes your postcode and gives you a map of your local area. Double-click on the point that you choose as a start for your run, then keep double-clicking on the points where you change direction (turn left at the "Royal Oak") and it calculates the distance for your runs. Great idea, you can even save your routes, presumably in case you forget them? Or so that you can eMail them to your jogging buddies? Gave me some more precise measurements than my previous method. (Take a road map of Telford, use a scrap of paper to measure from point to point, and then estimate how far this is equivalent to)!
One problem for me - trying to measure runs in Telford town park - is that it only shows roads. Footpaths don't appear to exist, so the town park is a large blank area. I guess that this is more useful for serious townies.
Another problem is that the training schedule that I downloaded from Runners World will specify, say, 3 miles tonight. So I enter in a training route that I think might do, and it will tell me that I will only be covering, say, 2.5 miles. How useful it would be if, at this point, I could take part of the route, and move it to take in a route round the far side of a housing estate to try to make up the extra distance. But no, the only option appears to be to remove last point, so if the extra distance loop was early in the route, you have to remove each leg, and then restart the route. Not very user-friendly!
I also read that training with somebody else can help your motivation, so I signed up to a free site called Jogging Buddy, which promised to help you to find somebody in your area who also wanted to train. And next day, I had a contact from somebody who wanted to be my buddy - quick work, or what?! So, I responded by telling her a bit about myself, and I'm still waiting for her to tell me that she can't be bothered to reply to me. Ah, well, I'll just have to keep myself company!
So, along came Xmas, and the pressies! Got the running shoes that I wanted, and a Heart Rate Monitor (once I can work out how to work it, that should up my training intensity), and out of a cracker I got a cheap and cheerful stopwatch. Something to take on a run and work out how far behind schedule I am!