TrailRunner

The TrailRunner diary has a chart view and customizable columns for the log entries. Read the blogpost for a feature overview.

Tracks describe a course you can travel along. Each track has a start and an end way-point where other tracks could be connected to.
Routes are a sequence of several tracks you visit during your course.
To build a route you first need to define tracks. When you create a route you add tracks in the desired order to her. The distance of a route is always the sum of the distances of the tracks the route contains.
Note: If you happen to create a route with only one track and you have set the track to bidirectional then the route will not change it's distance. The only difference now is that you are able to add the track a second time to the route.

Although TrailRunner looks like focused on runners, bikers will benefit from TrailRunner too. The only difference is the approach on handling routes:
Runners like to plan their routes detailed in advance and seldom own a GPS device like the Garmin ForeRunner. They would like let calculate a route for a given distance and then export the course onto an iPod for orientation.
Bikers plan routes roughly in advance but primarily like to collect and catalog their rides afterwards and watch an elevation profile. They often own a GPS device like the Garmin Edge and a Mac. Even some runners own a Garmin ForeRunner and a Mac.

So if you are a biker, open a new document, connect your GPS device, download your ride and possibly let TrailRunner download satellite imagery or topo-maps of the course-area. Both, runners and bikers would then make a diary entry and watch their training progress.
It's all that simple.
> Documentation

Sorry, TrailRunner is a pristine Mac OS X Tiger delicacy. But if you are (yet) unsure if you should upgrade — you're not the first user switching because of TrailRunner… So feel welcome to the colorful world of Apple Computer
> Get a Mac

TrailRunner can load maps only from from a limited list of internet map services. But you can import any image by drag & drop, screenshot & paste or file-import. To find other digital map resources in your neighborhood, visit the Library or watch out the developers-blog.
To make a screen-shot and paste it into TrailRunner, do the following:
• Open the digital map service in Safari
• Press Command-Control-Shift-4, a crossmark-cursor will appear
• Select the image area you want to copy, It's now in the pasteboard
• Switch to TrailRunner and click into the main view
• Press Command-v to paste the image into the map
Now you can drag around the map to place it.
For further information on placement, display options and map-calibration, consult the online-help.

TrailRunner can load Garmin ForeRunner data directly from Garmin Training Center or by using the Helper Application LoadMyTracks. Other than that TrailRunner can export and import GPX files.

Motivate, collect, explore. These are the three topics TrailRunner tries to focus on. For an insight into the main idea behind TrailRunner, read the About.

This message appears when TrailRunner is not able to append a selection to the route.
This is the case when the track network does not have a connection to the selected waypoint.
Should there be a connection, some tracks might have to be set to bidirectional (see Shortcuts for Layout Routes in the Library).