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10,000 Blue Circles in 2024. If circles become squares, title will change.

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JCB
JCB
Jan 2024
1:29pm, 3 Jan 2024
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Could be related to the map projection. An actual circle on the ground will be distorted on the projection. But I am guessing that the circles drawn on the map are actually circles instead of what the projection would describe. Although with Mercator projection the circles are still circular, but vary in apparent size.

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57.5 Days of Xmas
Jan 2024
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I know the Conquercise "squares" similar change size both in height and width , so guessing it's similar to that.
Conquercise squares vary in width, not height. Here the width looks similar with the height getting squashed towards the equator.
Jenelopy
Jenelopy
Jan 2024
7:42pm, 3 Jan 2024
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The wikipedia artical JCB links to is probably clearer (and for map nerds, there is a plugin in QGIS for that too, which I like!)
Here are some examples from a range of latitudes where I've had a GPS.
Evan
Evan
Jan 2024
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This was from last year when I was in Rochester, NY (N 43; W 77) for half the year and able to fill all but a few bubbles near my house. If it was based on latitude only I would expect similar circles to Vatican City (N 42; E 12). Differences based on latitude make sense but longitudinal differences don't make as much sense to me.
geordiegirl
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Jan 2024
11:32pm, 3 Jan 2024
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I’m in again… managed 10149 last year,
Might have to try to get more around my home area
geordiegirl
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10936 in 2022

How do you know how many circles you got for a specific run?
Velociraptor
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Jan 2024
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Filter by date and activity, gg, though it doesn't work if you've done more than one run in a day unless you classify them as different types of run.
ChrisHB
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Jan 2024
12:31pm, 4 Jan 2024
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So far, 129. If I extrapolate to 366 days, I get 11000 or more. That's maths, it must be correct.
Jenelopy
Jenelopy
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I just realised that 2024 is a leap year, so this will be a tiny bit easier than last year!

369 so far. Lots of walking, but some poorly planned (from a blue circles point of view) out and back routes
paulcook
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Jan 2024
2:32pm, 6 Jan 2024
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10% (well actually 11%) through inside 6 days. Not a bad start.

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Possibly the only achievement in Fetch that isn't rewarded by the granting of badges, we are now in the Nth year of trying to get 10,000 of them. The blue shapes represent the number of different places we have exercised in, a place being an area of - someone correct me - maybe 50m^2 or 100m^2, and only as recorded on a GPS-tracked excursion.

Find your blue shapes in the training log in three simple steps:

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