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May Running Challenge
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01-05-2021 11:02am#1Hi All
Back for another challenge in the series this month.
Strava Art!
Any kind of run, anywhere.. do your thing
Submit your participation with a screen shot ideally, but at least a link. We can work out the scoring later but it will be still 20 points for top, 19, 18 etc... If we have 20 or less participating, a poll will do it. If more, we will find a way.
Your running art is one thing, but if it means something let us know what the story is? What was your thought process? How did you plan it? Did it turn out as you expected?
Please select your top 3 Strava Art for the May Running Challenge. 35 votes
Hannibal_Smith - Face's corvette & BA's van68% 24 votesevent - A Balls of a Run5% 2 votesfletch - shotgun & 9720% 0 votescrisco10 - Running 7 Leinster Rugby0% 0 votesHannibal_Smith - BA's van 2nd attempt2% 1 votejackc101 - The shark0% 0 votesReg'stoy - The stick0% 0 votesMurph_D - The spermatozoa0% 0 votesjamule - Spray drills in a wheat field0% 0 votesDeepBlue - The lovable E.T0% 0 votesGlencarraig - The submarine0% 0 votesShotgunmcos - The Ostrich0% 0 votesMurph_D - The virus8% 3 votesEnpassant - The elephant5% 2 votesTFBubendorfer - The seahorse8% 3 votesPherekydes - 5 pointed star0% 0 votesDubh Geannain - Paddle your own0% 0 votes15
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First attempt - it was meant to be Face's corvette (to the upper left of pic) and BA's van to the right. Unfortunately my strava art is just as bad as my normal art :pac: I took a right too soon on the lower part of BAs van which knocked everything else out.
But the concentration levels were intense, in fact Im full sure I had my tongue out at one point like a kid with a crayon! I really tried to put definition into the corvette by creating a point at the tail and I even ran out and did two circles in the middle of the Kathryn Tynan Road for wheels. I was laughing so much to myself!! :pac: Intended to run into Solas Chriost NS school to try and get a bit of definition on the roof, but unfortunately there was a class doing PE outside, so I had to stick to the road and the artwork suffered as a result
I turned into The Oaks and tried to get an inverted T for the divider between the windows. Alas it seems you need to go deep for Strava to pick up such arty definitions as window dividers and wheels!! . Got to the top of Belgard Hill and was treated to a breathtaking view of Dublin City which was lovely mind you.
For the van I had it planned but miscounted the right turns I was to take and turned too soon. Again, I ran around a round about and a road to get the wheels, which Strava didn't pick up unfortunately.
I came out at Marks pitches on to the Fettercairn Road and knew at that stage I was too high for the stripe, but wasnt sure how too fix it. Best thing at this stage was to keep heading north nonetheless and try and get to the roof of the van and see if you can spot a through road somewhere that might work. Eventually I could see Doyles Bakery to my far right and thought if I could just get across the estate I could maybe salvage the stripe, come out at the back of the van and run back along the Katherine Tynan Road for the remainder of the roof. I did consider what some did for the 5kTT ie hopping a fence, but then I spotted a track in the grass that lead to a pedestrian entrance. Nipped in through it and ended up somewhere I didnt want to be! Took a few wrong turns to try get back out before I got shot :pac: Followed a car that looked like it was driving on a through road and followed it and ended up back on the Katherine Tynan Road. Happy Days! Headed towards the Bakery crossed the road (to get the spoiler) and head back towards Fettercairn to get the roof.
I kind of got the feeling I'd messed it up big time here when the roof was too long, and thought about cutting back into where I came out of. Luckily I couldn't remember where I'd come out of because if I'd taken it would have looked even worse! Got to the junction at Fettercairn and was delighted. Just get back to Mark's pitches and that'll be done. Was worried I'd made a total mess of the undercarriage but thought in general it should be ok. Got the most breathtaking view of the mountains en route, reached the end and pressed stop. Couldn't wait until I got home, clicked into strava to see how it looked. Burst out laughing :pac: That is not how it looked in my head!!! :pac:
I had the best craic this morning doing it. Was totally focused on the image in my head and laughing away to myself the whole time. Was also delighted to see I'd gone over 6 miles for the first time since last Oct! I'll obviously give it a better go now I know what strava demands before allowing you any artistic licence :pac: But thanks so much for setting this challenge, it was so much fun!
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Hannibal_Smith wrote: »First attempt - it was meant to be Face's corvette (to the upper left of pic) and BA's van to the right. Unfortunately my strava art is just as bad as my normal art :pac: I took a right too soon on the lower part of BAs van which knocked everything else out.
But the concentration levels were intense, in fact Im full sure I had my tongue out at one point like a kid with a crayon! I really tried to put definition into the corvette by creating a point at the tail and I even ran out and did two circles in the middle of the Kathryn Tynan Road for wheels. I was laughing so much to myself!! :pac: Intended to run into Solas Chriost NS school to try and get a bit of definition on the roof, but unfortunately there was a class doing PE outside, so I had to stick to the road and the artwork suffered as a result I turned into The Oaks and tried to get an inverted T for the divider between the windows. Alas it seems you need to go deep for Strava to pick up such arty definitions as window dividers and wheels!! . Got to the top of Belgard Hill and was treated to a breathtaking view of Dublin City which was lovely mind you.
For the van I had it planned but miscounted the right turns I was to take and turned too soon. Again, I ran around a round about and a road to get the wheels, which Strava didn't pick up unfortunately.
I came out at Marks pitches on to the Fettercairn Road and knew at that stage I was too high for the stripe, but wasnt sure how too fix it. Best thing at this stage was to keep heading north nonetheless and try and get to the roof of the van and see if you can spot a through road somewhere that might work. Eventually I could see Doyles Bakery to my far right and thought if I could just get across the estate I could maybe salvage the stripe, come out at the back of the van and run back along the Katherine Tynan Road for the remainder of the roof. I did consider what some did for the 5kTT ie hopping a fence, but then I spotted a track in the grass that lead to a pedestrian entrance. Nipped in through it and ended up somewhere I didnt want to be! Took a few wrong turns to try get back out before I got shot :pac: Followed a car that looked like it was driving on a through road and followed it and ended up back on the Katherine Tynan Road. Happy Days! Headed towards the Bakery crossed the road (to get the spoiler) and head back towards Fettercairn to get the roof.
I kind of got the feeling I'd messed it up big time here when the roof was too long, and thought about cutting back into where I came out of. Luckily I couldn't remember where I'd come out of because if I'd taken it would have looked even worse! Got to the junction at Fettercairn and was delighted. Just get back to Mark's pitches and that'll be done. Was worried I'd made a total mess of the undercarriage but thought in general it should be ok. Got the most breathtaking view of the mountains en route, reached the end and pressed stop. Couldn't wait until I got home, clicked into strava to see how it looked. Burst out laughing :pac: That is not how it looked in my head!!! :pac:
I had the best craic this morning doing it. Was totally focused on the image in my head and laughing away to myself the whole time. Was also delighted to see I'd gone over 6 miles for the first time since last Oct! I'll obviously give it a better go now I know what strava demands before allowing you any artistic licence :pac: But thanks so much for setting this challenge, it was so much fun!
Sorry for the essay :eek:
I enjoyed reading the report! it was very detailed and love how none of that detail transferred into the Strava Art.
Running and Strava Art is quite hard I think, most of the crazy art you see is cycling, when you can cover more distance the possible detail is much higher. e.g. drawing wheels would be 500m loops instead of 50m and have a lot more definition.0 -
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My attempts
In honour of our monthly challenge organiser, the first one is a shotgun. It's a bit messy...that was attempt 3 and after having to step over some poor lad a few times trying to sunbathe and getting some very strange looks, I decided to call it a day.
Same story here, the lads playing football didn't seem too pleased with me wandering through their goal posts so will return when it's quieter and try again
Edit: 972 being the boards Athletics & Running Forum Id
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Hannibal_Smith wrote: »Haahaa - in my head when I finished I thought I'd nailed it :pac: I even followed a couple of indentations in the cycle track to get wheel arches! :pac:
Honestly that was a brilliant opening attempt to this month's challenge. Your thought process detailed beautifully, thank you Glad you had so much fun with it too My attempts
In honour of our monthly challenge organiser, the first one is a shotgun...
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I decided to try a collage of sorts...aka couldn't think of 1 good idea so did 4 instead. Lol.
Basically the concept was to combine my 2 main hobbies (running and leinster rugby) into one "picture", and what better place to do it than the location of my first Parkrun?
I hadn't really done a exact plan for that art work but had done a Google map reccie briefly earlier in the week, and I planned it in more detail on the 15 minute run to Marlay.
image 1: The leinster rugby harp
Drawing the body of the harp was easy as the path there sort of looks like an arc, but the strings were trickier, to keep them equidistant I measured the distance from first to last string on watch and divided by 3. To keep parallel, I just tried to maintain the same line as the first string. Went relatively OK, but no idea until I get home obviously
image 2: the rugby ball
This was trickier, partly because drawing an arc consistently is pretty hard, but also having to avoid the underage GAA sessions made it interesting. However, the various bikes strewn around the pitches did give me some markers to try and make the shape somewhat even. I wasn't going to do the middle line, but had a last minute change of heart and did a quick up and back the middle of the pitches. Sure fk it.
image 3: the rugby posts
Over to the concert field here. Flashback to my autoCAD engineering days here as you just go up and down the x, y axis.
Used the watch to measure the length of first post, then turned and retraced roughly 2/3 of it, turn right for the crossbar for a while then repeat the trick for 2nd post.
My real dilemma was do I just run off at the bottom of second post or try to retrace my steps to keep image "clean"??? Again, fk it, tried the latter, using 2 sunbathers as my markers. Fingers crossed when I get home it will look OK. (It didn't- 2 cross bars anyone?!)
image 4: the (sort of) figure of 8
First off, why 8? Well it's the number of years I've been lurking with intent on the AR forum here on boards so basically my running career length.
This was a lot easier and less cerebral as it was just following roads/paths that (generally) form a figure of 8.
Got home, and desperately pulled out my phone to sync with my watch to see what it looked like. My heart sank when I saw the Garmin connect image, just a bunch of squiggles. Fortunately, strava was a bit better, if requiring a bit of a squint.
Really fun run and mentally challenging, it's like you are imagining that you are looking at yourself on Google earth as you run. I was listening to a podcast at the time, but I actually didn't hear a word of it. The concentration was a lot higher than I thought it would be.
I think there will be (significantly) better efforts, so might need to keep my thinking hat on.
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I obviously had to wait till we were allowed travel outside our counties before I could complete the challenge. The hardest part was trying to keep the handle of my walking stick to scale, the second hardest part was trying to keep my course dead straight, which necessitated jumping over hedges and at one stage running in the middle of traffic, while ignoring many angry drivers, who gestured rather rudely when I replied "strava art", to their requests as to "what the f**k are you doing?"0 -
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My attempt......
If you squint really, really hard and possibly have consumed sufficient hallucinogenic substances you might convince yourself that it looks somewhat similar to a side profile of the lovable extra-terrestrial with child abandonment issues from an 80's movie.
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Glencarraig wrote: »Submarine............kinda. It's one of my usual 5 mile routes. I will admit to it being totally accidental.
Giving away my age, but I see a Wacky races car
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A couple of weeks ago Murph_D commented on the first image. By chance the run looked like a kind of bird on Strava. I had been wondering what to do for the Challenge so the idea took root. I knew it would take a long run but life got in the way for a while. A week to go, I gave it a go.
I Consulted the resident artist, my daughter Zoe, 6, on the first image. I had to explain that I wanted to "draw" something with a run on the map. She asked if she could come with at first but after hearing it would take me an hour and a half, decided against it We analyzed the map together and I asked her what she saw. She instantly said an Ostrich. Cool, we were in synch. However, she upped the ante saying "you'll need to add a tail and an eyeball... oh and a beak"... no pressure then :cool::D She traced her finger over the map where she though the tail and back should be. Happily it was most of the roads I usually run, in a very specific order.
I set out around the block and a lap of the nearby woods for the feet. Mile 2 was straight into town for the first of the Ostrich's legs. Easy so far. The connection point to the body was at the end of a bridge so I just had to follow the bank into town, through Aurthur's Quay park, around King John's Castle and across the bridge to the Treaty Stone. This second point brought me to to the end of mile 3 and the end of the tail. The next couple of miles were straightforward to the base of the neck.
I did dive down into a housing estate to try and get some of a wing but it didn't work out. The "neck" was mile 6 up to the Tesco at Coonagh. A lap around the road outside Tesco would form the head but the details were the challenge. I was looking for a spot to hop a fence to my left but the trees were too tall and fence itself barbed. Finally, a gap! I hopped over and into a marshy flooded field. Nothing to it but get wet and dirty running a circle around the middle of it for the eyeball I caught myself on the fence wire hopping back out onto the road and almost face planted onto the tarmac
A short run to to the exit by a roundabout on the main Ennis Road. How to turn this into a beak?
I knew if I stayed on the path it would round the front of the head like the first picture above. Hmmm...
Right, lets give it a go. Instead of staying on the path, I crossed straight across the busy road to the point of the beak. Problem was, a roundabout stood between me an the path. Cars flew by beeping at me in my short shorts. A gap in the traffic and I sprinted across to the unkept roundabout, shredding my shins on razor sharp long grass. Now I was some dude in short shorts on a roundabout on the main Ennis to Limerick commuter belt
. I had to keep my line though. I trudged over the long grass and waited for a chance to sprint across the road to the safety of the path. Hopefully the danger was worth the small detail!
The route back into town via the "neck" and "belly" of the Condell Road brought me back to the initial bridge connection point. I jogged down to the next turn and ran a parallel road back up town for the other leg. I had put on Garmin LiveTrack for Mommy and the kids to follow along. My daughter met me at the door with a big grin to show me I did it, eyeball and all
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shotgunmcos wrote: »A couple of weeks ago Murph_D commented on the first image. By chance the run looked like a kind of bird on Strava. I had been wondering what to do for the Challenge so the idea took root. I knew it would take a long run but life got in the way for a while. A week to go, I gave it a go.
I Consulted the resident artist, my daughter Zoe, 6, on the first image. I had to explain that I wanted to "draw" something with a run on the map. She asked if she could come with at first but after hearing it would take me an hour and a half, decided against it We analyzed the map together and I asked her what she saw. She instantly said an Ostrich. Cool, we were in synch. However, she upped the ante saying "you'll need to add a tail and an eyeball... oh and a beak"... no pressure then :cool::D She traced her finger over the map where she though the tail and back should be. Happily it was most of the roads I usually run, in a very specific order.
I set out around the block and a lap of the nearby woods for the feet. Mile 2 was straight into town for the first of the Ostrich's legs. Easy so far. The connection point to the body was at the end of a bridge so I just had to follow the bank into town, through Aurthur's Quay park, around King John's Castle and across the bridge to the Treaty Stone. This second point brought me to to the end of mile 3 and the end of the tail. The next couple of miles were straightforward to the base of the neck.
I did dive down into a housing estate to try and get some of a wing but it didn't work out. The "neck" was mile 6 up to the Tesco at Coonagh. A lap around the road outside Tesco would form the head but the details were the challenge. I was looking for a spot to hop a fence to my left but the trees were too tall and fence itself barbed. Finally, a gap! I hopped over and into a marshy flooded field. Nothing to it but get wet and dirty running a circle around the middle of it for the eyeball I caught myself on the fence wire hopping back out onto the road and almost face planted onto the tarmac
A short run to to the exit by a roundabout on the main Ennis Road. How to turn this into a beak? I knew if I stayed on the path it would round the front of the head like the first picture above. Hmmm...
Right, lets give it a go. Instead of staying on the path, I crossed straight across the busy road to the point of the beak. Problem was, a roundabout stood between me an the path. Cars flew by beeping at me in my short shorts. A gap in the traffic and I sprinted across to the unkept roundabout, shredding my shins on razor sharp long grass. Now I was some dude in short shorts on a roundabout on the main Ennis to Limerick commuter belt. I had to keep my line though. I trudged over the long grass and waited for a chance to sprint across the road to the safety of the path. Hopefully the danger was worth the small detail!
The route back into town via the "neck" and "belly" of the Condell Road brought me back to the initial bridge connection point. I jogged down to the next turn and ran a parallel road back up town for the other leg. I had put on Garmin LiveTrack for Mommy and the kids to follow along. My daughter met me at the door with a big grin to show me I did it, eyeball and all
A very enjoyable, satisfying long run with a difference
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Hannibal_Smith wrote: »:pac: love it
Imagine some one saw some of the stranger loops/manoeuvres and asked were you OK... How could you answer, yes I'm just drawing a harp/shot gun/wheel/ET/ostrich's eyeball
Just beeps on the roundabout, nobody stopped Alas, the response was "I'm just looking for a large flightless bird" 0 -
OK, second attempt. For the times that are in it.
The 'suckers' (spikes) were the trickiest part, being very small oval shapes. Other than that, the route was made for it, given the geometry of the State's first local authority housing project, laid out nearly 100 years ago.
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The Elephant of Clontarf 11.05km 1.06.48.
That was one of the strangest runs I've done but also very enjoyable. I picked out the "elephant" on Google maps and drew it out on a piece of paper with the street names written down. I felt it would be easier to check than the phone. The paper drawing worked out well - I didn't make any wrong turns. The hardest part was estimating the height of the elephant's front legs ... and my carefully drawn tail is barely visible (I actually researched elephant's tails to check whether I could use Mt Prospect Avenue for the tail).
It was a perfect morning for a run ... even accidentally switching off my watch after 1km and having to start again didn't take away from it! It was a great idea for a challenge - thanks to whoever thought of it.
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And I managed to squeeze one in, just before the end of the month. I'm keeping with the animal theme.
Ladies and gentlemen, I present to you: the Seahorse:
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My effort:
So frustrated.
https://www.strava.com/activities/5350380240
It's supposed to be a 5 pointed star. I sketched it out on a sheet of paper and calculated the angles. I finally got to use the compass I bought years ago. I needed a large, empty and preferably flat space. I recced the Phoenix Park, but the area in front of the cross is covered in tufty long grass, and the other side is too busy, so I hit on the idea of doing it at Sandymount at low tide!
It was so well planned I turned up the first day in my runners and socks. It was too wet so I took them off. :pac: The hard ridged sand was too painful to walk on so I hobbled back to the car and slunk off home with my tail between my legs.
Take 2: Sandals! Perfect for walking on the sand. The day I tried it was wild and windy, cold and wet. Off I went into the middle of the sand. I'm wondering what people were thinking? "Is he suicidal or what? Is he trying to drown himself at low tide?" :D
Hmm, I quickly realised, thanks to my clever and forward thinking plan, that I grossly underestimated the area I would need. The weather was too foul to restart. I was starting to get quite cold. Blast! Another DNF. :rolleyes::o
Take 3: Good weather, sandals, plenty of space allowed. My list of compass bearings at the ready. It wasn't quite low tide, but it was low enough. Mostly the water was barely over the sole of my sandal, but I had to wade through knee deep water for part of one leg. And as you can see, when I took my reading from the north-most apex it was off. Also, I had nothing to home in on for the finish. It's so flat and featureless out there.
Ah well...
Kudos to the owners of the virus and the ostrich. They worked out extremely well. I know Marino quite well, I used to live on Grace Park Terrace.0 -
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Hi All
Thank you again for participating. Time for everyone to select their top 3 for the monthly challenge. The poll is multiple choice so please select up to 3 that stood out for you in terms of visual, story, effort etc...
I'll let the poll run for a week or until the votes have dried up, and then update the overall points table. It will be the same as previous months 20, 19, 18 etc.. and because just 15 total participated, everyone will score at least 6 points
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Done - thanks for organising again!
I must admit to being confused by the "7" reference in my run title though. Maybe it's obvious but... #babybrain
Sorry it was a typo for "&". I lifted my finger off "shift" before I pressed "7" and didn't notice
P.S Any ideas for June Challenge or do we take a break and come back to it in July. I'm a bit squashed for time this month 0 -
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shotgunmcos wrote: »Sorry it was a typo for "&". I lifted my finger off "shift" before I pressed "7" and didn't notice
P.S Any ideas for June Challenge or do we take a break and come back to it in July. I'm a bit squashed for time this month
I'd suggested the 200m previously. But another idea I had was stopwatch bingo?
Haven't thought of a way to flesh out the details, or how it would work re verification, but the principle is that you try and finish on as many unique seconds times across the month. I need some time or other's inspiration on how to maybe distil the idea down so it transfers well without a world of paperwork.
e.g. I did a 41:59 today, and a 36:36 yesterday so my score is 2 (59 and 36) so far. It obviously gets incrementally harder!0 -
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