RunningAHEAD - Topic: You can "measure" most distances without gadgets...

brerfootbill

Half Fanatic #846

posted: 9/21/2008 at 5:14 PM

thanks to the USPS and 9-1-1 GPS Addressing over the last few years. Occaisionally I'll leave the Garmin at home, but I can still tell how far I've run without ever having measured that course before. (Sorry, this does not apply to trails or parks - just roads). FWIW: Whether I live in the country or the city, I can run a road course from almost anywhere and easily determine the distance by paying attention to addresses along the way. Street and highway addresses are marked by GPS to the nearest thousanths of a mile from the nearest intersecting road (there are exceptions). For example, if I do my long run starting at 250 State Road 43, and decide to stop at 11700 SR 43, the total distance run is 11.45 miles (11.700 - .250 = 11.450). Running city blocks with lots of turns would be too complicated for me, but still doable. It's all simple math, but math and oxygen depletion just don't mix! Big grin

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to my wrist. Next time you're out running, you might be checking out mailboxes or house numbers... Bill

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Ennay

A Saucy Wench

posted: 9/21/2008 at 5:18 PM
modified: 9/21/2008 at 5:18 PM

http://www.runningahead.com/tools/map

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brerfootbill

Half Fanatic #846

posted: 9/21/2008 at 5:33 PM

Quote from Ennay on 9/21/2008 at 5:18 PM:

http://www.runningahead.com/tools/map

Right, but I said "without gadgets". Besides, that feature can't measure accurately from a specific address to another. Wink

"I don't always roll a joint, but when I do, it's usually my ankle" - unk. "Frankly autocorrect, I'm getting a bit tired of your shirt". I ran half my last race on my left foot!

Tyler S

posted: 9/21/2008 at 9:24 PM

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.

Ennay

A Saucy Wench

posted: 9/21/2008 at 10:02 PM

where do you find the GPS information on a house address?

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"When I got too tired to run anymore I just pretended I wasnt tired and kept running anyway" - dd, age 7

thomasruns

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posted: 9/21/2008 at 11:05 PM

Quote from brerfootbill on 9/21/2008 at 5:33 PM:

Right, but I said "without gadgets". Besides, that feature can't measure accurately from a specific address to another.

Me thinks whatever site you're using to calculate distance between addresses would be as much of a "gadget" as using the map tools on this site.

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AmoresPerros

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posted: 9/21/2008 at 11:14 PM

I ran without my GPS watch this afternoon, and I ran the last 4mi too fast -- a good reminder of what I get out of my GPS watch -- help keeping from going too fast...

It's a 5k. It hurt like hell...then I tried to pick it up. The end.

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Dave

posted: 9/22/2008 at 9:33 AM

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.

I ran a mile and I liked it, liked it, liked it.

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mikeymike

posted: 9/22/2008 at 10:25 AM

Quote from Tyler S on 9/21/2008 at 9:24 PM:

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.

Yup and just as useful for training purposes as any of the more precise methods.

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Ileneforward

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posted: 9/22/2008 at 10:36 AM

I don't think they laid out the addresses in my town that way. Are you running in a new community?

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Teresadfp

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posted: 9/22/2008 at 11:08 AM

Quote from Ileneforward on 9/22/2008 at 10:36 AM:

I don't think they laid out the addresses in my town that way. Are you running in a new community?

In Maine, they renumbered all the streets in our town, and I think a lot of the other ones. So we were #4, and now we're #75. It was a big pain, because we had to change our business cards since we have a home business (after a short amount of time, our mail man would not deliver mail to us if someone addressed us at #4!). They said they did it for emergency responders - now they know how far they need to go to get to each house. It's a good idea to use it for gauging distances for running!

Ennay

A Saucy Wench

posted: 9/22/2008 at 11:59 AM
modified: 9/22/2008 at 12:00 PM

ahhh. Yeah, I dont think my town has any gps info readily available from the house #'s. Heck my town has this lovely little habit of giving 3 or 4 names to the same stretch of road. And most of the road's I run on dont have any houses anywhere near the corners. Not sure how I would get any mileage info from any of that.

I have become Death, the destroyer of electronic gadgets

"When I got too tired to run anymore I just pretended I wasnt tired and kept running anyway" - dd, age 7

Large Old Runner

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posted: 9/22/2008 at 12:03 PM

If you-all lived in flat, old Northwest Ohio, you would not have any problems. Everything is laid out in 1 mile squares. You just run how many miles (cross roads) you want. Not too technical. I just need a watch if I want to worry about pace.

milktruck

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posted: 9/22/2008 at 4:46 PM
modified: 9/22/2008 at 4:55 PM

Quote from brerfootbill on 9/21/2008 at 5:14 PM:

Street and highway addresses are marked by GPS to the nearest thousanths of a mile from the nearest intersecting road (there are exceptions). For example, if I do my long run starting at 250 State Road 43, and decide to stop at 11700 SR 43, the total distance run is 11.45 miles (11.700 - .250 = 11.450).

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.

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jules2

posted: 9/23/2008 at 2:48 PM

Quote from Tyler S on 9/21/2008 at 9:24 PM:

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.

So do I but I also have a marked 1 mile circuit close to my house to check my pace on.

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