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Someone finally built a bike big enough for the tallest man on Earth. We thought you might enjoy seeing him try it out for the first time. Enjoy!

Video Link: http://www.cnn.com/video/#/video/world/2008/03/24/vo.tallest.man.rides.ap

Welcome to the third Beta release of RunThere!

As you can see from the previous post, things have been quiet around here for a while. RunThere.com just got a much-needed facelift, and we’re happy to finally be able to release it into the wild. If you’ve found problems, have words of encouragement, feature requests, etc., please send us a message from the feedback page.

With the new site layout, we’ve made some behind-the-scenes changes to make it easier to release new features (which we’ll discuss in the next few postings) and update the site more frequently.

Briefly, here’s the new stuff:

• New & improved route sketchpad and viewer! Try it now!
• New logo and site design
• New address search engine (with worldwide searchablity) Try it now!
• New ‘My Places’ creator Try it now!

Take look around and let us know if you ‘run’ into any problems. You can use the feedback page to contact us. Now go enjoy the new site!

Welcome to the second Beta release of RunThere!

This release has been brewing for a while, but we’re sure you’ll think it was worth the wait.

We’ve focused on adding new features and improving those we had. Many features still sit on the drawing board and many others are close to being finished (like better elevation graphs). For now, enjoy the new RunThere!

Just log in to your account to experience the changes. Don’t have an account? Sign up now for free.

New Features:

• Running Log! Save your times, distances, mood, and notes
• Profiles! Share a photo and info with other users (more on this feature is soon to come)
• Settings! Change between metric and english units, etc.
• Treadmill! Log runs without routes.

Improvements:

• Easily rename your routes
• Featured routes appear on your home page
• ‘My Places’ editor centers on your home country
• Better geocoding for Canada and the UK
• Faster route loading
• Log runs from the RouteViewer

Fixes:

• All routes should now load, fixed a ‘My Places’ bug
• Sidebar searchbox is specific to your country.

After many hours and days of brainstorming, discussion, and sketches (and of course, even more time with photoshop) our lead designer has created a new front page for the site. Now you’ll be greeted by the green, virtual rolling hills of RunThere.com!

So perhaps you’d like to know a bit more about the other people making routes around here. Well, now you can share some info about yourself in your very own profile. Here’s a preview of a profile. Of course, you’ll have to find your own photo to upload 🙂