How To

  • The Oro Valley Street Maintenance Responsibilities Map provided the framework for our routes, although we also added apartment complexes and senior living communities to our routes even though they’re not on the official map. When we came across our first apartment complex, we had to stop and discuss what to do since we hadn’t thought ahead about that. In the end, we decided to include all housing in Oro Valley even if it didn’t have a named street through it.
  • We used the Create Route feature in MapMyRun.com to draw out routes in advance so that we knew how far we would be running each day. The easiest way to bring the map along was to just take a photo of the computer screen with the map pulled up before leaving the house. We sought out parking spaces in neighborhoods or commercial parking lots to start and end our routes at, and we spent a good amount of time at home working to map the most efficient routes possible, trying to utilize loops and minimize out-and-backs, although those were impossible to avoid on nearly every run due to the huge number of cul-de-sacs
  • By hashtagging all of our runs with #essov, we were able to pull all of the GPX files into one map with Strava Multiple Ride Mapper. Very cool tool!