2012-03-07 49 -123

Wed 7 Mar 2012 in 49,-123: 49.2182219, -123.0828108 geohashing.info google osm bing/os kml crox

Location

E 57th Ave, near Ross St, in Vancouver, on the grass between sidewalk and road.

Participants

• Arbron
• robbat2
• Wade
• Rhonda

Plans

I'm going to be in the area, so I'll try to reach the point around 14:30. - Arbron

That's not far from home for me, so I'll detour via there on my way home after work. - User:robbat2

I'll try to get there after work today, around 19:30 to 20:00. - Wade

It's way out of my way for biking home from downtown to North Van, but my triathlon training schedule calls for a bike workout this evening. This sounds like a good bike workout, being 50 minutes (according to google) in the opposite direction of home. That means I'd get there about 18:00. Hey, can I Tron it using work as my start and end point? - Rhonda

I'm going to run it and aim to be there when the after work people arrive. -Robyn 19:23, 7 March 2012 (EST)

Expeditions

Robyn

I made it a Tron (thanks Rhonda for reminding me) and intended to meet up with at least one of the other parties. I left home and ran pretty much straight there, realizing on the way that it would have been perfect for a Juggernaut instead of --heck as well as-- the Tron, and it may still qualify if I did the math. I zig-zagged across the road a few times because the sidewalk couldn't make up its mind what side to be on, and then realized I had gone half a block past it, thinking it was on the south side, not the north side of the Park. So I cut through the park and over the fence: had to have some effort involved in getting a Tron. I found the spot with a very careful non-path-cutting GPS dance, marked the dirt with xkcd and then stepped back to the sidewalk to chalk it, and there stopped the GPS/timer.

I spent an hour playing in the park across the street and running up and down the not-very-steep hill as prescribed in my triathlon training schedule. I meant to stay until Rhonda arrived, but the temperature was dropping fast as the sun went down and I was getting cold. So I went back to the coordinates, restarted the GPS, and ran home.

And yes, I remembered to stay west of my outbound path, very carefully not taking streets that might not go through and might force me east. I cut through a park and found a lighted artificial turf soccer field I didn't know was there. I thought that park had a running track. So the question is does it have both or did they take out the running track when I wasn't looking?

Sorry I missed everyone else. I hope you had a good time and were warmer than me.