Warren McLaren has written an extensive article on TreeHugger on how to green your outdoor sports.
Although this is not a gadget I highly recommend reading the article for two reasons:

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MapMyFitness is a family of sites that you can use to share your workouts with others, view the evolution of your fitness training, use fitness calculators and tools and much more. At this moment there are five sites in the family, each aimed at a different sport/activity:

MapMyRun.com
MapMyRide.com
MapMyWalk.com
MapMyTri.com
MapMyHike.com

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Garmin has recently launched a website called Garmin Marathon where the company is publishing its sponsored marathons.
For each marathon there’s a Google Earth video, a map, the elevation graph and a link to MotionBased (Garmin’s routing and fitness site) for an in-depth analysis and mapping.

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Garmin has launched a new website for application developers who want to make their own sites compatible with Garmin GPS devices and website services.
There are several APIs (Application Programming Interface) available through this website. The MotionBased Web Services API, for instance, lets developers interact programmatically with MotionBased, Garmin’s mapping application.
The site also features the Garmin […]

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Trip Tracker SportsMate is a free web application where you can upload your workout and analyze it. It supports the following formats for uploading: GPX, NMEA and Garmin Training Center History files.
Two features distinguish this site from its competitors. The first one is that you can replay your workout at any chosen speed using these […]

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