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I have exceeded the limits of Google maps (their KML file parser only allows 1000 features, and while I don’t know what the other three are, 997 were the first batch of pubs).  You can still browse the maps, but there is a link to page numbers at the bottom, with roughly 200 per page so I’ve pulled the link until I can find a bit of mapping software more drunken runner friendly.  Here were some of the milestones:

Pub #1, The Red Lion, our local in Stretham when we first moved here; a mere 87 yard stumble, downhill along walls to our front door.

Pub #100 fell the day before my first British birthday, during a lunch run to Granchester from the labs in Cambridge. Almost exclusively London, Cambridgeshire, and Kent at this point.

Pub #500, 10 September 2010: Density around Bicester, Oxford and parts of London are beginning to look like Cambridge and Ely.

Today (17 September 2012) with 1029 pubs down. My vacation is nearly over and even with the 10 or more mile-per-day September running still on, it is looking less likely that I’ll be adding many in the next few weeks. I’ll do updates of the map at each new 100, though.

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A great man once put together a Google Map of all the bars he had been in during his three years in Tucson, Arizona.  This was an act of nostalgia that was also meant to serve as a logistical tool for hashers in the area.  Following on from that idea, I have put together a similar map (links on the screen shots in this post and also on the sidebar of the blog).

The Oxford area

This may load slowly because, as of this writing, there are 593 pubs pushpinned to the map.  If you want a faster loading version you can start with this link, with the adviso that only about 100 pubs at a time are displayed (there is a tab at the bottom of the list if you want to scroll through some not shown).

Around Cambridge

Use these if you like, however you like.  The map should continue to grow so by the time any of you find a reason to visit this fair land, it will be increasingly likely that there will be a pub near your destination that has also been featured in this publication.

Swindon, my town