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Good luck! 🍀

Good luck!

Lots of luck Ian

Good luck and I hope the weather is reasonable for you.

Good luck, and I hope you finish resting in sandy beds.

Meant to ask - chained pair or not?

Using the maps screen definitely uses more battery than a data screen, since it is constantly having to re-draw the screen every time you make progree, or slightly make a turn (assuming you don't have North Up, and have Direction Up). So if following a Course and using the maps screen to navigate, then switch to a data screen when you are on a section where there are no turns or you know where you are going.

Lol, no not chained. We are actually entered on two solo tickets, so not even a 'pair' - but we'll be operating as one

That's good advice, thanks Gus. We have the potential to have map available on at least four different devices, so I'm hoping maybe I can keep the watch just for tracking.

Good luck - hope you enjoy it!

Switching the HR off helps assuming it’s usually on. Getting a battery pack and recharging on the go is an option

OH, DS Sheetfeeding Here We Come! That's as close to a straight line as you could possibly manage - hope it goes well.

Exciting!

I'm sure it will be a memorable experience for both of you

Have fun, good to spend time with the boy!!

Good luck, will be watching your progress

Have a great time and like you say its going to be an experience you'll both remember for a long time no matter what happens.

Pack a powerbank & charger? (That's my plan) and if I'm in any eatery that has a USB I'll give it some juice. Look forward to seeing you both! and there won't be any startling efforts from our lot neither. Sam will remain the chief escapee for another year!

And the GPS hop is interesting as I know when I run I mostly stop my watch crossing roads, when running with my friend who doesnt she always has more miles on the watch than me!

Good luck. Hope you both enjoy it.

Has your support crew got a battery pack?
Have fun!

good luck, going to be a tough one but one youll enjoy (after )

I look forward to reading your post Meridan blog. Good luck!

Not sure which Garmin you have, but if it has the power management options you can tell it which of it services you need to use, how long you need it to last, and it will regulate its power usage to last that long.

Have fun 🤩

Have fun with your son on Friday night / Saturday morning. May your legs carry you all the way from the Shire to Mount Doom

About maximising battery life: I found that it helps if you switch from recording every second to smart recording. It'll give you a bit less accurate GPS tracking if it's only every 5 seconds or so but it will give you a few hours extra of battery life. Some watches have an ultra mode which optimises battery life.

Deactivating the optical HRM and especially the pulse ox function (major battery drainage from that) will also extend battery life. If you use the watch as a smart watch, you could probably also reduce the amount of notifications you get by limiting the apps that are allowed to send you those.

Thank you

🎅

You lost me at KML 😁

I'm generally a bit of a luddite with this kinda thing...but it's wizardry, works really well for one of the routes I do regularly, and definitely something I can use for route reccys in the future! Top work, top work!!

Well I have to say you mentioned this on the EfM thread and I have managed to import it now to decide if we can run on the roads and maybe plot some reasonable places for stops for a greggs/mccyd's or a bottle of water. Thanks so much for being our own wizard!

Weren't they the ones who did "Unbelievable"? Oh, that's EMF, my bad. Or the Yoda version of Escape from Meriden.

You're running through Binley? Good luck!

Managed to upload it for the race I've just entered! Nae bad for an auld wifie!

Love this too

Do you know if it can be done in the mobile app? I can’t see an option for it.

@Fragile Do Not Bend yes it can. Certainly on an iPhone. Export the KML file, view it, then click the ‘arrow coming out of rectangle’ icon to share the file. One of the options is Google Earth.

It worked! Thanks Fetch.

Oh dear, Google Earth doesn’t understand bridges

Encouraging swim-run, that is.

So KML isn't a boyband then?

I'm in awe of the Ironman entrant who took 22 minutes in T1. If the swim was that exhausting I'd have given up there and then.

Did they maybe just forget to lap their watch and several minutes of T1 was actually cycling? I took 12 minutes in T1 in outlaw in 2021 but, in my defence, we were still social distancing then and transition was nearly 1km long!

The longest transition I found overall was this three hour gap after a 400m swim - but I am guessing there's a digit in the wrong place: fetcheveryone.com/races/tyne-and-wear-fire-and-rescue-service-triathlon---hebburn-71863

I have some of the faster times in this database. You're often at the mercy of a very spread out transition area, but that full distance bike-to-run 1m45 included putting on socks and slapping on sunscreen! For a full distance race, both T1 and T2 are very compact at Roth.

Looking at my race times, I haven't added the 226 ironman I did in 2014, I ought to rectify that.

I love this

This is great.
Has anyone logged a Hyrox event yet? Lots of transitions for those...

podcasts.apple.com This guy had pasta pre and post bike!

Hey @KatieB look at this

I wonder if this is something people might want to opt in / out of in preferences…?

Hello me @fetcheveryone

Very possibly Cath - I expect it’ll turn up as a feature request once people get wind.

...is indigestion a pre-requisite for feature requests? Asking for a friend.

Have you considered how this works with friends only blogs?

Is there a button for turning lurkers back on...

I like it

Me too

Super work, I’m going to tag my mate @KatMum that will get her all excited ver nothing in particular 😱🤣🤣🤣

Works great @Bowman 🇸🇪

nice

@Ocelot Spleens I did consider it. If you tag someone who is NOT in your buddies list, they will get the notification, but it will NOT show them your blog. I think it would only happen by accident, or by a very occasional bit of douchebaggery

Yes. That is good. That's the sort of thing I thought but perhaps also they might not get the notification, because the notification points that there was a blog entry but you don't know what it is, whereas no notification means you are totally unaware of the blog.

It's the sort of thing I used to think about when I was an engineer, do you realise this might happen?

People are constantly finding ways to use the site that I do not anticipate. It's part of the fun

Thanks Fetch, especially the last bit, I don’t think I will ever have the need for a bat photo in a blog, except perhaps a 🦇

I like the new layout. Thank you.

Loving this. Thanks, Fetch!!

Excellent, thanks. I use itals a lot and bold relatively often, so it's really useful.

Ta Fetch, hadn't noticed the tagging.

Tagging is good

I've added it since writing the blog. Now working on tagging in comments

Tagging in comments would be REALLY good.

Well let's see if it works Sharkie - NB at the moment you have to type the square-brackety code - I am still trying to figure out how to make that work when there are multiple comment boxes on the page (one for each blog entry).

Yeah, On occasions when it's been important enough to me I've found the square bracket code via another open window/tab (I tend to write on a Big Mac or Airmac at the very least rather than via phone) but it's a bit laborious.

Did you get a notification about this mention though, Sharkie ?

YEP!

Ohhh exciting. I might have to start writing more blogs.

Woohoo, more toys! G

That's fab. Thank you

great work Fetch

Nice "batting" *bat* in time for Halloween.

But thanks - it's been a pain trying to do anything "clever" with blog text on my mobile and tablet because the predictive text grabs tags in particular and tries to "help".

That’s great 😁

You can tag people in comments using the 'AT' symbol now @Sharkie

Thanks Fetch, that's great.

Howzat!

I've been tagging people all over the shop today

One feedback - if I copy an image into a 'write a blog' page, it creates 2 copies rather than just one.

This is not minor, this is huge! Goes off to investigate further...

Chough-ing hell

bigbobblehats.co.uk these guys seem to value the running community locally. But not as tasty as a pasty.

If things are that bad why not do a 12 days of Christmas instead of an advent calendar, possibly less hassle for you too.

It's amazing. There is no money to be made, in England, making Pasties. What is going on? This country runs on baked goods. Literally.

Can we drive to Cornwall and collect 'fresh' from the shop?
Or even be cheeky and ask for a frozen box now and put in a freezer? (will limit the choice for the winner)

There are other Cornish past online sellers if it's worth the hassle. Should I research them?

These are nice people with a good, and relevant, product who may be worth contacting wildsolesandals.com

I'm afraid I can't remember all of the contributors from previous years, but have you ever approached RunThrough, to see if they would offer a free race place at one of their many events?

There’s a lovely pie shop in Lochinver that do deliveries.

runnorthwest.co.uk seem a friendly bunch.

Precision Hydration

Housemate recently got a few boxes of pies delivered (steak and ale was *chef's kiss*) - not a pasty but may be good? I know he also follows a pasty company, can ask him in a bit for the name.

I've been a bit out of the loop. Remind me what you need? Cornwall has loads of bakers.

Chough Bakery would send out a box of 12 pasties (meat or veggie option) to one lucky winner in our Festive Fetch Calendar. I just need some bakeries that do that sort of thing that I can approach.

I have just used thecornishcompany.com to get some Saffron cake. They also do cream teas, cornish pasties and hampers.

Ian - I did a google search, some I have heard of. Is this what you were looking for, or just more work you?
(name, phone, web, email*)

The Cornish Pasty Store 01209 703820 thecornishpastystore.co.uk help@thecornishpastystore.co.uk
Rowes 01326 372380 thecornishpastystore.co.uk admin@rowesbakers.co.uk
Ann’s 01326 572282https://www.annspasties.co.uk/shop/ enquiries@annspasties.co.uk
South Coast Bakery 01503 262066 cornishpasties.com cornishpasties.com (*email is a web form)
Tasty Pasties 01288 354353 tastypasties.co.uk info@tastypasties.co.uk

typo correct
Ann’s 01326 572282 annspasties.co.uk enquiries@annspasties.co.uk

Oh no! 12 days would also be good if it's proving problematic.

Lord Of The Pies might help, a bit Manchester, but they might.
lordofthepies.net

There is also Flake Bake Patties, theywere on Radio 5 this morning and have an eye on advertising themselves
flakebake.co.uk

For sports companies, have you tried Harrier? harrierrunfree.co.uk
A small UK company and I'm a great fan of their kit. Their founder has been on a few podcasts recently (eg Tea and Trails) so trying to build the brand and might be worth a shout.

Sorry to hear of your pasty-related disaster, how unsavoury. I just wanted to swing by and say thank you for the newsletter.

Greggs

Someone got me a great birthday present from cornwallswimcompany.com

Hope a pasty provider can help but 12 days of Christmas would also be great if there are fewer sponsors around this year.

Off the scale disaster.

Philps pasties are my favourites. They do deliveries.

This is terrible news

activeroot.co.uk
kendalmint.co.uk

in no particular order: Voom sports nutrition. Kendal mint company. Veloforte. OTE sports nutrition. The Feed (seems to try and establish a uk presence?). XMiles. 2Bare Feet. Roar porridge. Gymwash.

New badge day is always a good day.

Oooo I got one ! 🤗

I have 2. Remember, it's not AI, just an algorithm, the intelligence belongs to the humans who wrote it all, so far.

Got one too - love a new badge

I’m happy I have two so far

Great badges. Will definitely have to do some more traveling now! 😃

They look great. Not that I’ll be getting any

"New badge day is always a good day" - seconded!
I've got two.
I do see some conquercise trails for people who clearly have logged a train ride or a boat ride and therefore presumably have a bunch of these upper ones. Are we allowed to grass them up or am I being too competitive?!

"just an algorithm" - debatable? There are algorithms galore used to build the models, but I don't consider the resulting model to be an algorithm. Maybe it is.

I take it these aren't retroactive - I've definitely been first explorer (and hence first owner) of a handful of zones in the past - but don't have any shiny new badges 🥺

They are retroactive only in the sense that I've taken a snapshot of the zones today, and used these to calculate what badges people have earned. I don't store historical ownership rights for each zone unfortunately.

I got three in one go. Great

I obviously don't own any as first finder as of today, although I thought I'd have at least one Great badges, though, and an example of AI working well (apart from the poor graphic designers).

So I got a badge for being an owner of a square and I think I qualify as "owner of a square that nobody else has been to this year." So I am the only one on the square's current league table. I think that means I could find a square somewhere reachable from home, but as that's between the M3 and M4 west of London, pretty much everywhere has been visited at some point, but maybe not all within the last year?

Ar. I'll be plunderin' some o' these very soon, ar

Valid squares have a visitor count of 1, which must be you... if that helps

Time for a long weekend in Ulaanbaatar

Oh thank you Fetch I have 3 new badges but I REALLY REALLY want the Land Shark badge - but I still don't really know how to play conquersize it just happens hahaha

You're a week too late Fetch! If these had been done last week, I'd have got (at least) up to the 10 badge, and maybe 25 if I'd been trying.
Now we're back at home, OffRoader has loaded her Garmin and we share them.

Oh well, I'll have to pick another holiday somewhere unvisited!

Is there a table available to chart progress?

Not yet

I got one too 😊

I got two!

But how does the first finders gallery work in this case? When people log on?

I just wrote some code that allocated the badges to the relevant people, in no specific order. Just luck.

There are zones on my map I have visited and where there has only ever been one visitor that must have been me. Is that right? But if that visit was more than a year ago I didn’t show up as the owner so no badge. Not complaining, just checking

Very nice, I got three

I got one, will have to work on the rest

Thanks for doing this Fetch 🙌🏻😀

Not a fan of the ethics behind AI imaging/photography to be fair

love a new set of badges!! A table would be great to see how close we are, I won 528 but obvs others have explored some of those

For a moment, I thought you'd gone all Ozzy Osborne on us....

Has that been used for a long time by a right hander, or was it designed with an asymmetric toe?

I think it maybe looks more pronounced in the picture because maybe the bat is on its back. There's a slight asymmetry to it, but very minor - maybe through wear rather than by design.

Well done, it looks great!

I thought you had bats in the garden for a second there. You’ve done a lovely job on that.

I was also wondering about asymmetry - I seem to recall bats are not handed? I’m left-handed but would play cricket, golf right-handed.

They don’t tend to be handed, but I’ve seen a few examples I think where there’s a wee bit of asymmetry.

There's quite a bit of theory out there now that says if you're naturally right handed you should be taught to bat left handed as the

stronger, controlling hand is at the top. Stokes for instance, Gower too.

Very nice 👌🏼

Yes. Very nice!

My first thought was flying bat not cricket bat. Not in the same zone as you cricket types, obviously. Looks lovely. Well done. G

I can almost smell the oil from the photo. Brings back happy memories

Nice work there...

Next time you're in Cornwall in the summer, come and guest for Porthleven!

I hope you realise there are whole YouTube channels devoted to this sort of thing

Yes indeed

That is a thing of beauty.

Well done, sir. I am sure your efforts at refurbishment will only enhance your enjoyment.

Lovely

You’ve done a great job with that. I know nothing about cricket bats but it does look good.

That looks very nice indeed

From The Times today.
A 'spot the bat' pic. Renovate that!

Noice. I sit here as I write on my 12 year old MacBook Air that is also starting to struggle the updates required. But let's be honest, how many PC's are still running so well after 12 years of daily abuse.

Great setup 👍

Very nice, and I love the photos.

My first Mac Mini is now a laptop support. The second one can have no more upgrades. Its Safari is too old for some websites. Firefox is a good alternative to the too old Safari. Thankfully, I have a fairly recent MacBook Air. In due course, I might buy a new silver box.

My silver box is a Mac Studio And I have to be able to use all the browsers, for compatibility testing.

My laptop and I have a fight every time I switch it on. I need a new one but I don't really need one if you get my drift.

Great photo

Great setup! As I work from home so frequently I have been considering bringing a monitor or two home and sorting my home setup rather than just using the laptop. You may have inspired me to sort my crap out, maybe.

Great photo, I love a good sky, it can really make a good photo great

FYI, this is the monitor holding thing that I have: amzn.to

Nice setup and despite how background pictures are so often covered, they are important to mindset when they appear. Mine are from a holiday in Barbados and always make me smile

That's a great setup!

Love this. The monitor holder is a hand-me-down from the Rebel Alliance, surely?

Is that a Mac Studio I see? Very nice. Although it's video output will be wasted on those monitors

"How do you work on a tiny keyboard like that?" was my only real thought. Plus "why on earth do people use Macs", but that's a tribal thing!

Nice setup

Easy larkim. Because they are still properly usable after 10+ years,, don't suffer from malware, and go like the brown stuff off of a digging implement. Plus it's a far nicer tribe

Nice setup. Similar to my own for home working. Although i wont use any Apple products if i can help it

Ooh, new kit day! You need a working computer. Lovely pics too. G

Lovely Definitely thinking a Mac might be my Big Treat for 2025 to help with arty-farty pursuits, and the longevity is appealing.

That desk is too tidy. You're not working hard enough.

I find it weird that Mac's dump a load of junk which builds up to the point where you literally don't have enough memory to download the new OS, but there's no way to delete apart from wiping everything - which is what I had to do with my last Mac. Still, it lasted ages and now I have a new one, I do prefer them. Mouse on the left hand side? I'm left-handed writing but right-handed most other things, which is good for computer work!

Yes, I'm left-handed with the mouse, but write right-handed.
I haven't found the Mac to be anywhere near as bad as Windows machines when it comes to a build-up of installed stuff.

Great photo, and I like your set up.

That is a stunner of a photo

I'm pleased to hear about your folders, nothing annoys me more than disorganised folders!

Oooh very nice. I'll get some pics of my studio, so everyone can appreciate your tidiness. Great Star Wars prints by the way

For the price of an apple product I could afford to replace a Wintel product every couple of years and stll be in profit

If you can find this spec for a sixth of the price, let me know.

Nice set up and picture. After reading Mark J's comments about 12 year old pc's I went and had a look at the ages of the computers we have on vessels at the moment. Lots in daily use at about 10 years old and 3 in use laying a cable from Japan to Australia that are 15 years old! Still work fine and I suspect that they will keep going until they can't upgrade anymore.

Nice office but based on OS's comment the state of my desk suggests I work REALLY hard (and actually I may be proof that there is no substance to what OS said!)

The most important part of the set up must be the cricket balls.

Absolutely