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Feb 2013
11:06am, 11 Feb 2013
3,284 posts
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Vancouver Jogger
I have a park that 'just happens' to be just outside my home circle - when I'm doing a lot of short intervals in daylight as opposed to long intervals in the dark, I can end up planting lots and lots of flowers within a few hundred metres of each other - over the course of several months.
If you're running with a garmin (or similar) then flowers get planted when you are in no one's area and your distance is 0.5, 1, 1.5 miles etc. Worth knowing where your home circle starts as when returning from a run it is sometimes worth doubling back a few hundred metres just to make sure that you get one final *.0 or *.5 in and therefore an extra flower.
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Feb 2013
11:45am, 11 Feb 2013
640 posts
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The Juicer
Races are a bit of a flowers-fest aren't they. At the Blackburn Winter Warmer 10k on Sunday, I picked Nerianne's flowers, planted a load of my own (due to my garmin going into power-save, and then not starting until after a minute, I think), and then UWE picked my flowers. Think my points jumped up about 40,000 
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Feb 2013
11:49am, 11 Feb 2013
15,144 posts
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Night-owl
They can be providing you are the first to upload your run better to do the planting unless you are quick off the mark
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Feb 2013
11:53am, 11 Feb 2013
738 posts
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Nelly
N-O - I don't think it makes a difference, as long as you are not last, unless there is already flowers on the route.
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Feb 2013
11:57am, 11 Feb 2013
641 posts
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The Juicer
I got points for picking, planting and being picked. So 3 lots of points. Is it possible to score more? Only been playing this month, so still trying to suss it out
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Feb 2013
12:03pm, 11 Feb 2013
18 posts
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rarog20
wow, this is getting interesting (my husband will disagree). Might have some confused dogs tonight when i start running round in circles lol!
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Feb 2013
12:09pm, 11 Feb 2013
10,900 posts
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Yorkshire Pie
Being first helps if someone's been watering a flower patch on the race route for weeks before race day as you get more for picking the original set of flowers than you would for picking the flowers of another racer who beat you to the upload. Also, if the route goes through someone's circle then there may also be some coins about which will get nabbed by the first uploader.
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Feb 2013
12:12pm, 11 Feb 2013
7,430 posts
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GimmeMedals
I got gazillions of points from a race yesterday by picking someone's flowers - I've never had as many fetch points as I've now got. Do you get points for planting flowers too?
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Feb 2013
12:17pm, 11 Feb 2013
11,259 posts
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Nick Cook
Races can give you lots of flower points, especially if you live/work near the route. Before yesterdays Wokingham half I cycled part of the route planting and watering flowers. These flowers were then picked giving me (and picker) loads of points. I then uploaded my run and got points for picking flowers and planting my own, these were then picked givng me more points. There are also now flowers on the route which I will pick later this week.
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Feb 2013
12:25pm, 11 Feb 2013
15,146 posts
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Night-owl
Nelly true but if someone has watered the flowers continually for months the first person will get the big points max 5000 a flowr whereas those who flower will just get 1000 pts every half mile
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