Discussion: Set the route up?
in: blairtrewin; blairtrewin > 2008-08-14
Aug 14, 2008 8:08 AM
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Just wondering if all the runs you do are tried and true runs that you cycle your way through from month to month, or whether you actually get out maps or something and plan where you go? Do you always run from home on these early morning efforts, or travel to the 'start'? Really enjoy your AP log Blair.
By the way, what did I say about Collingwood being gone!!! Nothing like playing the Saints to turn your fortunes around!!
By the way, what did I say about Collingwood being gone!!! Nothing like playing the Saints to turn your fortunes around!!
Aug 16, 2008 8:34 AM
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During the week my starting points tend to be fairly variable. Sometimes they're from home, but if I have something on somewhere else in town in the evening - which typically happens a couple of times a week - I'll often position the car somewhere closish to town (often Clifton Hill), do a run from there and then ride in to work - this means I'm dealing with traffic at 6-something in the morning rather than 8. On the weekends if there isn't an event I usually start from home, although today was an exception.
For the longer runs, I almost never do exactly the same route twice - instead I've got a range of usual entry/exit routes for the first 20-40 minutes from my starting point (probably about 12 of them from my place, in all directions), and wing it in the middle with a view to a target time - Melbourne's suburbia is regular enough that you can usually head in a vague general direction and get where you're going. Occasionally I get it wrong and end up doing a substantially longer run than I'd planned on, but this happens a lot less than it used to (in my first year in Melbourne I ended up doing 41k on Christmas morning after realising after 1.45 that I was 15k from home in a straight line). With street-O being such a big feature of the Melbourne scene I know the basic street/path/park layout of pretty well everywhere within a 15km radius. I've also done oddball things occasionally, like one time seeing if I could fit a 2 1/2 hour run on a single page of the Melbourne street directory without any doubling back or crossovers.
For the longer runs, I almost never do exactly the same route twice - instead I've got a range of usual entry/exit routes for the first 20-40 minutes from my starting point (probably about 12 of them from my place, in all directions), and wing it in the middle with a view to a target time - Melbourne's suburbia is regular enough that you can usually head in a vague general direction and get where you're going. Occasionally I get it wrong and end up doing a substantially longer run than I'd planned on, but this happens a lot less than it used to (in my first year in Melbourne I ended up doing 41k on Christmas morning after realising after 1.45 that I was 15k from home in a straight line). With street-O being such a big feature of the Melbourne scene I know the basic street/path/park layout of pretty well everywhere within a 15km radius. I've also done oddball things occasionally, like one time seeing if I could fit a 2 1/2 hour run on a single page of the Melbourne street directory without any doubling back or crossovers.
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