A Fighting Chance
12:21am, 20th Dec 2023 | 7 Comments
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I've been thinking about attempting to get all rundle digits for a while now, I finally managed it yesterday.
Quite often there's a few digits that are inaccessible but yesterday I managed to fiddle around enough to make it doable.
I used the opportunity to use the Fetch route planner (made very easy with the rundle overlay). I then exported the gpx route and put it on my new Garmin Epix (to test that out). It went really well, but the map could have been zoomed in a bit more (I'll play with settings I guess). I also carried the phone with the rundle map open and used the 'find me' option to make sure I was inside the circle.
The experience was similar to street orienteering, albeit planned upfront. It took me down lots of local streets that I've never been down which is always a good thing.
Here's the original map
Here's my route plan (8 and 1 were overlapping but I went down another street to make sure of number 1). I also found a shortcut across a recreation reserve. Actual run came in at 11.2km
And here's the shiny badge
Quite often there's a few digits that are inaccessible but yesterday I managed to fiddle around enough to make it doable.
I used the opportunity to use the Fetch route planner (made very easy with the rundle overlay). I then exported the gpx route and put it on my new Garmin Epix (to test that out). It went really well, but the map could have been zoomed in a bit more (I'll play with settings I guess). I also carried the phone with the rundle map open and used the 'find me' option to make sure I was inside the circle.
The experience was similar to street orienteering, albeit planned upfront. It took me down lots of local streets that I've never been down which is always a good thing.
Here's the original map
Here's my route plan (8 and 1 were overlapping but I went down another street to make sure of number 1). I also found a shortcut across a recreation reserve. Actual run came in at 11.2km
And here's the shiny badge
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