Do many folk out there try this? I am trying this in my home town of Paisley in Scotland. I use though there are lots of apps and websites out there. I’ve managed 42% of my town though it is getting more difficult as the unexplored routes are further from home. There are 377 km of streets to be run in Paisley.I have found it a good way to get me out running in the winter nights and it is highly addictive. With citypainter it doesn’t differentiate between runners and cyclists.
Running Every Street in the town you live
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I would be lucky if the worst thing that happened to me was getting robbed
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#ctespnOG wrote:
I would be lucky if the worst thing that happened to me was getting robbed
Run faster
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My town has 2,500 miles of road, and I have no interest in running most of them. I’ll stick to the trails.
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no interest in that wrote:
My town has 2,500 miles of road, and I have no interest in running most of them. I’ll stick to the trails.
I don't know how many miles of road my town has... but if I ran down about five different residential streets, a couple of industrial ones, one or two commercial one, and the downtown street.... I've essentially run all of them.
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Look up Joabe Bayer Barbosa. Chicago.
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flowerofscotland wrote:
Do many folk out there try this? I am trying this in my home town of Paisley in Scotland. I use though there are lots of apps and websites out there. I’ve managed 42% of my town though it is getting more difficult as the unexplored routes are further from home. There are 377 km of streets to be run in Paisley.I have found it a good way to get me out running in the winter nights and it is highly addictive. With citypainter it doesn’t differentiate between runners and cyclists.Citystrides only counts walking and running, no bikes.
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In the mid 2000s I printed a wall-sized map of my city and highlighted streets as I ran them. I misplaced that initial attempt and lost interest in the effort many many many years ago, but just reprinted the map and restarted the effort last month. So I was pleasantly surprised by the timing of your thread!
Heat maps generated by gps apps are cool but so I'm not a big gps user - regardless I enjoy the idea of knowing I've seen every block of every street in my hometown. Google says I have 680 miles to cover.
Good luck to you!
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I did that when I was first starting to get fit again, walked every street for suburbs around me, working my way out further and further. I imagine it would be quite enjoyable to do it somewhere as scenic as Paisley? They have some gorgeous old churches there, eg Thomas Coats Memorial.
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I did that for several years back in the 1990s. I tried to design each day's run so that it used at least one street I'd never run before, using a paper map of the city. After a while I ran out of streets I could reach while doing runs of typical length from home, and I wasn't about to start driving to start my run from someplace else, so I dropped it. For a while it was an interesting way of mixing up my runs.
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I’ve tried something similar on a smaller scale, and I agree it’s surprisingly motivating. Turning runs into little exploration missions makes winter miles much easier to stick with, especially when familiar routes get boring. Tracking progress also adds a sense of purpose beyond pace or distance. After longer sessions like that, I usually unwind with something completely unrelated, whether that’s reading or checking out , before planning the next route.00
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A friend of a friend claims to have completed Seattle. Impressive if true, but it sounds very difficult.
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After he stopped running at age 82, New York City marathon legend Ted Corbitt set out to walk every street in Manhattan. He didn't make it before his death 6 years later, but supposedly came close, and kept meticulous records. (As he did about everything).
In Connecticut, there's a group that tries to run a race in each of the state's 169 towns. Quite a few runners have achieved this, sometimes having to organize races in towns that don't have a race.
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flowerofscotland wrote:
Do many folk out there try this? I am trying this in my home town of Paisley in Scotland. I use though there are lots of apps and websites out there. I’ve managed 42% of my town though it is getting more difficult as the unexplored routes are further from home. There are 377 km of streets to be run in Paisley.I have found it a good way to get me out running in the winter nights and it is highly addictive. With citypainter it doesn’t differentiate between runners and cyclists.Shouldn't be that hard. This has been done in Vancouver, which has over 5x as much mileage to cover...00 -
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flowerofscotland wrote:
Do many folk out there try this? I am trying this in my home town of Paisley in Scotland. I use though there are lots of apps and websites out there. I’ve managed 42% of my town though it is getting more difficult as the unexplored routes are further from home. There are 377 km of streets to be run in Paisley.I have found it a good way to get me out running in the winter nights and it is highly addictive. With citypainter it doesn’t differentiate between runners and cyclists.Shouldn't be that hard. This has been done in Vancouver, which has over 5x as much mileage to cover...And another...00
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