One of my friends recently completed running all of the streets of West Hartford - took her from Jan-Nov last year. She used a map+spreadsheet to track her work and plotted it out on a map of the city. Cool project.
Yesterday, during my run, I decided to run all of the streets of H’istan. So I found a good street map of the city, went to FedEx, and had them print it out poster size: https://themdc.org/app/uploads/2022/09/HartfordStreetMap2022.pdf
This morning, I began my challenge in SoWendHa (South West-End Hartford), and did 3.2 miles covering 5 complete streets and parts of 8 others. This neighborhood is predominantly Puerto Rican, Portuguese, and Brazilian. My finds included some historical curiosities, awesome road bling, and a Portuguese bakery with almond-crusted croissants.
In thinking about the overall task, I’m looking for completeness (every street, entire street) as well as efficiency (not covering the same stretch more than necessary), but I need to take into account that I can only do 3-5 miles each time out.
If the city streets were perfect squares, and tiled the plane perfectly, I could take inspiration from something like the Dragon Curve (which doesn’t cross it’s own path). Four of these, each rotated 90 degrees, completely tiles the plane. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dragon_curve
But a city is not a perfect plane - has dead ends, boulevards, greens, cul-de-sacs, islands, curves, roundabouts, etc. And I need to return to my car after each segment.
When I go to a museum, in order to see each piece of art, I follow a simple pattern of go to the left, until a room is completed, then take the next left turn, etc. This gives me completeness, but would not take into account segment lengths.
Any thot’s on how to approach this?
AI!
That map looks like what our local Chinese restaurant has on its wall to map out their delivery area.
Discovered City Strides and easily uploaded my recent Garmin stuff from RN HTFD (NBBW and I have gotten into dropping VWLZ). Just started exploring it's capabilities.
Shows a nice map of where I've been (and what's remaining). A good visual you don't get from Excel and the MDC map. Now I need to know if I can hack it for those times I forgot to turn my Garmin on (or off).
I've gotten into a nice groove of early morning runs (really early, no cars out, just garbage trucks and empty city buses, and the bad guys are still sleeping), with a scrawled street map of my run-plan.
I've concluded several runs with a stop at the local neighborhood bakeries for some awesome ethnic pastries (Portuguese, P.R./D.R., Jamaican, Argentinian, Cuban, European), guilt-free as I just ran 3-4 miles.
3/13 Update: at 33.8% complete (211 streets completed, 328 streets "touched"). I am uploading to
CityStrides, ignore the stuff outside of H-istan.
Anyone on Strava looking for followers? I am on Strava and I load my workouts everyday. You can find me at my real name there.
Saturday, September I am running my 50th parkrun at Kingston Park in Cottage Grove.
Stick - got your real name from Ben, but didn't find you on Strava - figured I'd need linkage from Strava-to-Facebook, many options there, so I picked the one I thot was you - lawyer, NDSU, etc.