Monday 16 December 2013

A run through the suburbs

See what I did there?


I like some of the more organic shapes of the trees in the actual path below - especially that one on the left. The large tree also looks kinda bonsai.


Links to Strava here and here.

Thursday 12 December 2013

Stormtrooper helmet

I did another picture run this evening. This time, it's a Stormtrooper helmet. It was an approximately 13km run, based on this guy's artwork.

It was simple in comparison with the face I ran last week. The face had roughly 250 points to connect, and this helmet has just over 100.  There were longer distances between the points this time so I could get some sort of pace up, but it was still stop-and-start.  The result is good, but clearly not as good as the face.


Here's the actual path I ran:


Strava links below:

 

Monday 9 December 2013

Face with glasses

I drew this face over a week on three separate days. I did it by pausing Strava between points - this draws a straight line, and means you aren't restricted to the shape of the streets. Each of the three runs was approximately 7kms. It was very slow in sections, mostly because the detail around the eyes and ears meant I had to greatly reduce my pace to get it right. It was also very stop-start. I'd run to the next point, stop to pause and restart Strava, and then often head back in the direction I came from.



Here's the same run, but showing the actual path I took:



I've uploaded screenshots from my iPhone because as you can see below, the face does not display properly on the Strava website.



If you click on image below it you can run your mouse over the elevation profile and watch a cursor trace the path I took. There was a lot of back-tracking! But I'm pretty happy with the result.

Sunday 17 November 2013

Dick

My first attempt at this one was foiled by a six foot high fence on the south side of the canal that I didn't see in street view on Google Earth. So the k doesn't look as good as it could. The back of the k could also be improved:



Here's the same run again, improved, both in appearance and pace.

Download the kmz here (You can open this file with Google Earth for iPhone, or Google Earth for PC).

Friday 15 November 2013

His is longer than mine.

We have our first competitor in the cock and balls challenge. Eric W from Brisbane is strongly out of the blocks with this 7.3km penis. Very well done.

Wednesday 30 October 2013

Bush bashing a bird

This one took quite a bit of backtracking over ground I'd already covered. It was a little awkward walking past the bush regenerators a number of times... It's a bird sitting on a branch - you make have to tilt your head to the right to see it.

Self portrait in profile

This was my second attempt at creating an image (the first was a cock and balls, of course).  It's a nazca-esque face.  I walked this one.  Hoping to run it soon.

Fart

I planned this one out a few days before I rode it. When I got to Southwell park on the right there was an archery competition going on. I couldn't complete the T without being shot by an arrow, which was a little disappointing. But I think it still works.  I also had to pause Strava in order to complete the hole of the 'a' - it allowed me to bridge a gap for which there was no path.

The cock and balls challenge

Eight kilometres of Shit

Upside down, upside down...

This is the second word-run I ever planned, and still the longest at 13km. To see it you may have to rotate the map, or rotate your head. There are a few mistakes (in the n, and the dot of the i), but I'm not in any hurry to fix it up.


My first word-run

This was my first word-run. It was in the early days of my jogging, and 7.2km was a long distance for me at that stage. So the pace was quite slow.


I made a number of mistakes.  I turned the wrong way up the hill at the F, and didn't take the right street for the inner curve of the C. This added an additional 600m to the run that I had planned with Google Earth.

A couple of weeks later, I tried to improve it.


But, this still wasn't great. The top arm of the K could potentially be improved, and my time was still quite slow.

So I tried again on a rainy afternoon:

By this stage I had memorised the course, and did not have to look at a map to find my way. Consequently, the pace was better.

There is still potential to improve on this, especially in the upper arm of the K.  I could potentially also complete the top bar of the K by pausing Strava at the finish, and then walking back around to the start, and starting it again.  It's not possible to walk through the housing that is present between the corner of Longstaff and Gill Sts and Southwell Park.