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You can "measure" most distances without gadgets... (Read 1060 times)

daves14304


    Strangely enough when I try to estimate usually I've gone twice what I thought I did so in order to not injure myself I try and either measure or time my runs.
      I often just estimate my distance based on time, and how fast I felt I was going. Not very accurate, but close enough I would say.
      I do the same when I'm travelling for business and running a strange course in a new town. At home, I stick to courses I've pre-planned and measured ahead of time.
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      rectumdamnnearkilledem

        Hmm...maybe that level of precision was the way it was done down there in the land of hanging chads ( Wink), but up here a guy drove by and they used 75 feet of road frontage for each house number to sort everything out for e-911. And, we don't have all that many mailboxes stay where they were originally planted -- the snow plows weed out the weak each year, so most don't have anything that resembles a house number on them.
        Ha, your part of Maine sounds like my part of MI. Big grin

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          I ran with my GPS watch on my long run on Sunday. I ran the whole damn thing too fast. Good reminder that even with technology, I lack self control and common sense.
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          It's a 5k. It hurt like hell...then I tried to pick it up. The end.

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            Huh, now that I think about it, MilkTruck is right - we're #75, and we're definitely more than .075 miles from the main road. So much for high-tech accuracy.


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              Ha, your part of Maine sounds like my part of MI. Big grin
              But we get our cheese from Vermont...and lobster is free.

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              rectumdamnnearkilledem

                But we get our cheese from Vermont...and lobster is free.
                Cry No lobstahs for me... SadAngryNo Our house # is 7996. Our street is only about 2/10 of a mile long, 4 houses (we connect 2 other streets)...not straight. No clue what rationale is used to measure distances/lot #s here.

                Getting the wind knocked out of you is the only way to

                remind your lungs how much they like the taste of air.    

                     ~ Sarah Kay

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