Conquercise

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chunkywizard Aug 2016 9:11am, 17 Aug 2016 3,253 posts	0 chunkywizard If you keep GPS on and the boat is moving then you distance will be all wrong so it'll muck up your stats, do you want this? If you run whilst on the move then turn off GPS I reckon. If you are moored then game on - fill your boots!
ChrisHB Aug 2016 12:42pm, 17 Aug 2016 13,656 posts	0 ChrisHB I used my Garmin to note the starting point and direction, then I manually changed the course to the correct number of miles. Thus I have explored two small bits of the North Sea, but not all the zones I was actually running in.
paul the builder Aug 2016 1:31pm, 17 Aug 2016 5,736 posts	0 paul the builder applauds ChrisHB's integrity
R4R Aug 2016 1:44pm, 17 Aug 2016 2,684 posts	0 R4R HB obviously stands for Honest Bloke
flanker Aug 2016 1:10pm, 18 Aug 2016 16,594 posts	0 flanker as long as you run up and down the boat, assuming it goes in a straight line at a constant speed your mileage will be pretty accurate - what you gain in one direction you'll lose in the other
Molesy Aug 2016 1:24pm, 18 Aug 2016 3,109 posts	0 Molesy Only if you run faster than the boat is travelling. I think?
Icelandic Trigirl Aug 2016 2:18pm, 18 Aug 2016 2,679 posts	0 Icelandic Trigirl forgot my garmin today so went an old route
philip_m_jones Aug 2016 4:42pm, 18 Aug 2016 52 posts	0 philip_m_jones Where I live (London), the grid is 1.3857 km east west but 2.2251 km north south. Seems to me if you run east west you hit a lot more squares, any tactics on this?
ChrisHB Aug 2016 5:23pm, 18 Aug 2016 13,659 posts	0 ChrisHB You need a mathematician for the logically correct answer, but the practical answer is to run E-W along a road that is very close to the E-W zone boundary, and every 0.88 miles take a slight detour across the boundary and back again. You can make that more efficient still if, having done your N-S bit you can stay that side of the boundary until you have crossed an N-S boundary. It is surprisingly easy to do this in London. Whence I have the whole of London in my explored zones.
Ceratonia Aug 2016 8:30pm, 18 Aug 2016 4,068 posts	0 Ceratonia If you do a loop, running E-W for a long distance, starting from just inside a zone and finishing just inside a zone, then popping far enough north or south to hit the next line of zones and then running W-E back to your start? Not very easy in the most of the UK. Where I am in Texas this week, I can run W-E very easily (along the river) but going North is impossible (no bridges) and the roads to the South have no pavements/sidewalks.