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.