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Just for fun...
Has anyone here used their GPS so that when they upload their data it creates a certain shape or pattern? If so, what patterns have you made and can you provide a link to the map?
I haven't really done this yet, apart from when I walked in the shape of a heart in my local park with my wife for funzies. ;-)
There is a route that I'm planning to run soon in London, along the Thames, that looks a bit like a boomerang when plotted using the route planner.
One thing I try to do is avoid running along the same piece of road twice in the same run so that when I see it on the map the route is very obvious. If I do have to run back along the same road I use the opposite side and only for the shortest possible distance.
Does anyone else do this or anything else odd/interesting/weird?
:-)
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Someone on RA, I can't remember who, wrote their name with their GPS route and had it as their avatar for awhile so yes, it's been done.
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I'm impressed that you had the energy to do this after a 21 miler! Fun.
We had a similar thread a year or two ago. There were some fun designs in there. And I think, though I don't recall for sure, this is the thread where perfesser showed a nifty cross-the-country route where he may or may not have averaged 500+ mph
(I promise this isn't a "you really oughta use search first" poke... and, anyway, I tried a few times to find it with search and couldn't)