I ran the Sunfeast 10K Bangalore Marathon yesterday. Looks like this is a
good practice to continue if I want to visit Dayton someday :)
--
73 de Prasad VU2PTT, W2PTT
On Mon, May 19, 2008 at 8:12 PM, Julius Fazekas <phriendly1@yahoo.com>
wrote:
> Doug,
>
> Did you calculate how many miles walking the inside
> vendors added to the total?
>
> We did at least one loop inside and 2+ outside on
> Friday. One of my ankles complained, but my feet were
> relatively happy ;o)
>
> thanks for the outside estimate!
>
> 73,
> Julius
>
> --- doug smith <dougw9wi@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > A number of people (probably most vocally myself)
> > have been
> > complaining of sore feet after walking the Dayton
> > flea market.
> >
> > Wishing to quantify this, I made a rough estimate of
> > the distance one
> > must walk to visit every outside space.
> >
> > I paced off the width of a space. (arrived at 8
> > feet, about 2.4m)
> > Used the map printed in the program to count the
> > spaces.
> >
> > Allowing for the aisles between the rows and
> > allowing 8 ft. to turn
> > around at the end of each row, I arrive at 3.81
> > miles (about 6km) as
> > the distance of one lap of the flea market.
> >
> > This does not count the walk from the bus to the
> > lot. Nor distance
> > spent backtracking to that thing you really needed
> > that sold before
> > you got there, nor going to the porta-potty & back,
> > nor hauling that
> > rotor or plate transformer to the UPS Store. (or to
> > the bus stop)
> >
> > Accurate? Who knows...
> >
> > ==
> > Doug Smith W9WI
> > Pleasant View, TN EM66
> > http://www.w9wi.com
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