WSW shenanigans
4:02pm, 4th Jun 2023 | 3 Comments
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Following on from the mathematical nature of yesterday’s blog I thought I would take it practical.
I plotted* a route that would hopefully be efficient for WSW and bag a lot of squares for not much distance. But would the real world bring in problems?
I started with a WSW warmup, lazily going through squares and being rather efficient, then I came up to the part where the real efficiency would need to kick in. I reset my watch and put my foot to the floor** and ran the route I had planned*. It was a bit dodgy because of traffic and the sides of the road are natural verge. Being grass almost to my knees, branches, standing water, dead wallabies and other dead animals, it wasn’t the easiest to navigate without risk of injury. After about 3km I got to the end and could then do my WSW cool-down for the next 1 hour. No, not really a cool-down. 😀
When the activity uploaded, one of the squares hadn’t been covered because the GPS trace was about 5m too far north, pretty much for the whole of the activity. Luckily only one square missed though, giving me a total of 29 squares.
The distance was 3.07km and the efficiency ranking table has me with a score of 9.43squares/km. I’ve topped the table!
Will it be enough to remain in top spot? Will someone, maybe you, better it?
* = only in my head
** = not literally the floor, but the ground
I plotted* a route that would hopefully be efficient for WSW and bag a lot of squares for not much distance. But would the real world bring in problems?
I started with a WSW warmup, lazily going through squares and being rather efficient, then I came up to the part where the real efficiency would need to kick in. I reset my watch and put my foot to the floor** and ran the route I had planned*. It was a bit dodgy because of traffic and the sides of the road are natural verge. Being grass almost to my knees, branches, standing water, dead wallabies and other dead animals, it wasn’t the easiest to navigate without risk of injury. After about 3km I got to the end and could then do my WSW cool-down for the next 1 hour. No, not really a cool-down. 😀
When the activity uploaded, one of the squares hadn’t been covered because the GPS trace was about 5m too far north, pretty much for the whole of the activity. Luckily only one square missed though, giving me a total of 29 squares.
The distance was 3.07km and the efficiency ranking table has me with a score of 9.43squares/km. I’ve topped the table!
Will it be enough to remain in top spot? Will someone, maybe you, better it?
* = only in my head
** = not literally the floor, but the ground
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JCB
Started running March 2013 to try to build my fitness for field hockey. My initial goal was to be able to run around the 'big block' which was one mile along each side. Eventually was able to do that, though slowly. What to do next? Try faster or longer? Faster seemed out of reach, so ran longer. In May 2013 ran farther than ever before: 10km. Apart from 12km later that month I didn't run that far again until Dec 2013. Eventually thought about trying to run as far as a half marathon. Took a while to do that, pondered what next and was drawn to trying to do a marathon. Ran my first marathon in Nov 2016, and have gone on to run three more marathons and three ultras (56km, 56km, 50km).Profile | Blog | Other Blogs