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You can "measure" most distances without gadgets... (Read 557 times)

daves14304 view log	posted: 9/24/2008 at 2:37 AM
	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.

ajaxinacan view log	posted: 9/24/2008 at 10:51 AM
	Quote from Tyler S on 9/22/2008 at 1:24 AM: 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.
	Statistics are human beings with the tears wiped off. --Paul Brodeur

zoom-zoom view log Registered for #2	posted: 9/24/2008 at 1:08 PM
	Quote from MilkTruck on 9/22/2008 at 8:46 PM: Hmm...maybe that level of precision was the way it was done down there in the land of hanging chads ( ), 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.
	Kirsten '07: 1324.5 mi '08: 1561 mi ... • Ladies Locker Room • .: 2009 Goals :. • Run 1750 miles • 2 marathons (May - Bayshore, Fall - ?) • PRs: 5k ~ 15k ~ 25k? ~ HM ~ 26.2 • 1st trail relay (North Country)

AmoresPerros view log "Idiot"	posted: 9/24/2008 at 1:37 PM
	Quote from dgb2n on 9/22/2008 at 1:33 PM: 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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Teresadfp view log	posted: 9/24/2008 at 1:42 PM
	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.

MilkTruck	posted: 9/24/2008 at 9:17 PM modified: 9/24/2008 at 9:19 PM
	Quote from zoom-zoom on 9/24/2008 at 1:08 PM: Ha, your part of Maine sounds like my part of MI. But we get our cheese from Vermont...and lobster is free.
	formerly known as GravelRd, but I've changed to an earnest, running milk bottle. That little guy looks like he's truckin.

zoom-zoom view log Registered for #2	posted: 9/24/2008 at 11:55 PM
	Quote from MilkTruck on 9/24/2008 at 9:17 PM: But we get our cheese from Vermont...and lobster is free. No lobstahs for me... 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.
	Kirsten '07: 1324.5 mi '08: 1561 mi ... • Ladies Locker Room • .: 2009 Goals :. • Run 1750 miles • 2 marathons (May - Bayshore, Fall - ?) • PRs: 5k ~ 15k ~ 25k? ~ HM ~ 26.2 • 1st trail relay (North Country)

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