FetchPoint: The Game

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Oranj Aug 2018 8:40pm, 7 Aug 2018 985 posts	0 Oranj It's definitely an advantage to cycle because of the distance you can cover to plant and water flowers, although since I've got back to early morning running it's allowed me to squish bugs, nab some early morning traffic lights and jewels locally.
ferret Aug 2018 12:26pm, 9 Aug 2018 3,183 posts	0 ferret So many points , & pleased you’re running’s going ok Oranj. Just seen the scoreboard, seems you harvest plenty of flowers. Mine get overwatered, a favorite cycle route, though hopefully this w/e the overwatered will mostly be picked, there’s a run through them :-). I’ll be last, so can replant 😂
Oranj Aug 2018 12:42pm, 9 Aug 2018 987 posts	0 Oranj Yeah, I'm starting to fit a bit more running in which is good. I have another crack at Abingdon marathon looming although I've not managed much more than an hour on my feet yet. With flowers, I had a change of tactic this year, it was what Dapperdan was doing that made me realise (he lives on the coast so can't change his routes much and overwaters all his flowers). I stopped worrying about overwatering flowers and instead just keep going over the same routes, with slight variations so new flowers aren't planted quite in step with previous plantings. When you think about it, a flower is worth 20 points when you harvest it after 6 weeks, which you lose if you overwater it in the first 2 weeks - it just dies - but that's just a third of the value you get from planting and watering it: 1+7+9+17+20 = 54. So I've concentrated on the latter. At this time of year, other Fetchies occasionally ride through my patch too, harvesting the overwatered flowers and gaining those points so they don't die anyway.
ferret Aug 2018 11:54am, 10 Aug 2018 3,186 posts	0 ferret I wondered if I was getting 20 from others going through overwatered dead flowers. I’ve 2 lovely but hilly routes needing watering, especially with w/e coming up, but trying to avoid wearing legs out before Sunday.
HellsBells Aug 2018 3:40pm, 17 Aug 2018 24,209 posts	0 HellsBells Humph I was going to cycle to parkrun tomorrow for a change, but between GlennR and Flatlander's traffic lights, it would cost me a ridiculous number of points. I thought this was meant to be an incentive to exercise??
RRR-CAZ Aug 2018 4:09pm, 17 Aug 2018 2,834 posts	0 RRR-CAZ Go the long way to miss the traffic lights !
HellsBells Aug 2018 4:43pm, 17 Aug 2018 24,210 posts	0 HellsBells Between them they have a network that makes it actually impossible without paying a minimum of around 100 points
RRR-CAZ Aug 2018 4:48pm, 17 Aug 2018 2,835 posts	0 RRR-CAZ Ouch !
Flatlander Aug 2018 7:06pm, 17 Aug 2018 1,213 posts	0 Flatlander I can't take all the "credit" ;-). HB, this route should work for you: Storey's Way, Oxford Road, Warwick Road to the Gilbert Road/Histon Road junction. Gilbert Road, L onto Carlton Way, turn R onto Alex Wood Road, Mansel Way and cross the dogleg double TLs onto Campkin Road. At the end of CR (or use St. Kilda Avenue) cross King Hedges Road to Lovell Road (you should just miss my TL at the King Hedges Road/Milton Road junction, providing your GPS doesn't wander off course) and you're onto the Milton Road off-road cycle path. Cross at the Science Park traffic lights (the real TLs not Fetchpoint ones ;-)) onto Cowley Park and parkrun. Probably round about 4.5 miles. I must be daft, advising someone how to avoid giving me points :-p!
DocMoye Aug 2018 7:24pm, 17 Aug 2018 23,549 posts	0 DocMoye Yes you are daft ..... But you are also doing rather well !