Kevin Callahan, founder of a new website called mapmyrun.com, tells the L.A. Times that he hope his baby will become the “MySpace of the running and fitness world.” And it may. Using Google technology, mapmyrun lets runners plot their routes. It then delivers information on pace, speed, covered distance and calories burned. The Times reports that Mapmyrun can upload data from a runner’s global positioning system  and use the information to plot the course the runner took. Or, conversely, tech-savvy runners can take a route from the website
and import it into their GPS  which can display the route-in-progress
on its screen, along with current location, heading and position.
Unfortunately for Callahan, several other entrepreneurial runners would also like to be the MySpace of the running and fitness world. Among them, the Times reports, are WalkJogRun and gmap-pedometer.  For the moment, myspace is anybody’s space.