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Jun 2020
10:08pm, 9 Jun 2020
11,987 posts
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NDWDave
*and aren’t selected for the multiplayer
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Jun 2020
10:09pm, 9 Jun 2020
11,988 posts
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NDWDave
And for the record, getting into the later rounds of multiplayer will ruin your life
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Jun 2020
10:16pm, 9 Jun 2020
14,546 posts
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Ultra Sparkly Bridget (USB)
Robertson - I actually live in K12 so a wee distance from my 'home' point. I am sure it is a coincidence (as my husband always says 'you are the statistician, work it out') but it is quite interesting that so far all my opponents have tended to cover a loop round the bottom right quadrant first.
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Jun 2020
10:23pm, 9 Jun 2020
11,989 posts
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NDWDave
I don’t think it is a coincidence USB... I worked out this strategy from the last 32 onwards in WSW to advance. The top left corner was mine until the semi final... Everyone else seemed to go south...
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Jun 2020
10:29pm, 9 Jun 2020
5,868 posts
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57.5 Degrees of Pain
If I run with the dog she refuses to go anywhere but southeast. The woods there have the best bathing spots and year round mud puddles.
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Jun 2020
10:34pm, 9 Jun 2020
11,990 posts
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NDWDave
Roberton is South West...
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Jun 2020
10:44pm, 9 Jun 2020
14,548 posts
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Ultra Sparkly Bridget (USB)
NDW - in that case I shall continue to head north initially while keeping a slice of cake on my doorstep at the very least.
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Jun 2020
10:53pm, 9 Jun 2020
822 posts
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roberton
Hehe, indeed Dave. The south west corner of my grid is my favourite 😍 In fact if you want to know more...
I live just south of Warrington. It's a nice area, I've got a canal, patches of wood, some semi-rural areas all in easy reach. But also a lot of housing and more urban bits (but parks too with that). South is generally the more open of course, and the south west corner of my grid also has a reservoir and the kind of lanes that have houses on them but not your semi-detacheds...
East is also great, especially in the summer: bigger woods around a stream, feels a long way from a town, but it only starts in my grid, the rest of it extends well outside. That SW corner is a lovely bit that allows for wiggles and is mostly in the grid. And I can even paddle board into on the canal and that can count 
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Jun 2020
11:01pm, 9 Jun 2020
823 posts
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roberton
"getting into the later rounds of multiplayer will ruin your life" 😂
I wouldn't say that (for me), but here's a true story from this evening...
I was knocked out in the semi-finals of WSW on Monday, same as NDWDave. This evening I decided to go for a little run. Two observations:
1) it felt like I hadn't been out for a while. Like when quite a few days have passed without me going for a run and I'm asking myself how I feel, do I need to ease myself back into it. It was just under 36 hours since I'd last been running.
2) (this is the bigger one) I was stood outside my house and I didn't know where to go. Honestly couldn't think where to run. For the last two weeks I've had something else telling me, I couldn't cope with the freedom!
In the end I did 3 miles / 5 km in the fading light, a random, not particularly interesting loop that was completely nondescript. It was fine 🤷♀️and couldn't think of anything better.
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Jun 2020
11:36pm, 9 Jun 2020
19,179 posts
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flanker
Picking the right location for your home square can usually get you through the first couple of rounds of multiplayer without too much of a problem. After that you have to buy a bike, abandon anything else in your life, and run 100s of miles to proceed further
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