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May 2013
4:43pm, 21 May 2013
4 posts
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Rich_k
Yes you would plant a new one for every half mile you ran outside your area, plus water any you passed by. You could vary it running it backwards, or putting slight variations in although you are right, it can get boring if you do this all the time. Which is why i only do my planting and watering on some of my runs not all.
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May 2013
4:47pm, 21 May 2013
15,612 posts
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Night-owl
Welcome Rich
I love the watering of flowers have 2 different patches so not doing the same route all the time and cos one of them isn't very exciting a choice running past HGV's or horses I know what I pick
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May 2013
5:22pm, 21 May 2013
63 posts
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Revbarbarag
I feel very blessed by the terrain I have available right on my doorstep. I've lived here for almost six years, but am now getting very excited about the running possibilities. I live in a former mining village surrounded by farmland... lots of tracks and trails, woodland, no need to run very far on pavements unless you want to. It's lovely!!!
And what's more, the landscape is best described as gently undulating. You never go very far without a hill - but they are mostly benign, and don't last for very long before you get some respite. So running round here, you are automatically getting an intervals workout, without trying, and without it being so tough as to make you want to vomit.
I think that stood me in good stead in my race on Saturday - there were only a couple of hills that I considered hard going, but I ran up them, while a lot of people were walking.
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May 2013
5:49pm, 21 May 2013
3,228 posts
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sallykate
100,000! I feel happy if I get a random 10,000!
I moved or squished 22 bugs today on a 6 mile walk. Most satisfying! And tomorrow morning I'll be visiting a few flowers on my bike commute.
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May 2013
5:56pm, 21 May 2013
64 posts
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Revbarbarag
22 bugs??? Wowser.
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May 2013
7:14pm, 21 May 2013
11,175 posts
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Yorkshire Pie
I passed another fetchie on my way home from work - I was on the bike and he was running so I reckon I got home first to upload the training 
(sorry fozzy!)
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May 2013
9:41pm, 21 May 2013
72 posts
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mick173
hi rich k. I'm afraid I must disagree about the roads being boring and dangerous I go down them at least once a day either running or cycling and have never found them boring and I'll take our lanes anytime to a town where you can't listen to the skylarks singing, see red kites, watch canadian geese shepherding their goslings across the fields, see hares scampering across the fields because you've disturbed them etc etc
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May 2013
10:30pm, 21 May 2013
13,228 posts
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Ultra Sparkly Bridget (USB)
It does depend on who you meet driving down the lanes though ............ and how bendy they are. I tend to avoid them on Grand Prix weekend
Barbara - you feel the same way about the bugs that I do. They are messy and need ditching! There is another registered player here (who doesn't log using routes) and there tends to be an accumulation of bugs outside my circle but inside his. I've been known to shift them out of the fields just so I can tidy them up.
My name is USB and I am a Fetchpoint addict
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May 2013
10:55pm, 21 May 2013
5 posts
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Rich_k
Apologies mick173, my post wasn't meant as a criticism of that particular area. More that playing this addictive game led me to running a route, that because I don't very often run more than 5 miles or so, had me running in a big square along roads with no paths which was what I found a bit boring (I might have exaggerated a bit looking at my original post). My choice of course, but it's unusual for me to run more than a mile in a straight line and I found myself doing that three times on that route. Which Is the point i was trying to make. in order to pick a bucket (ok several buckets) of flowers I was willing to run a route which apart from the nature doesn't have a lot going for it. As for the safety issue, I'm sure it's as safe as any country lanes (safer than most I guess as it's mainly straight), but I don't normally run on country lanes without paths. nearly all my running is done on paths so for me more dangerous than any of my normal runs. Anyway sorry if I offended you in any way.
Going back to those bucket loads of flowers, just how many were there down those lanes, had to be at least 3-400!!! I was expecting a good haul, it was about 3 quarter million points last time I ran down there, but wasn't expecting 1.6 million points. kudos on the flower planting (and watering).
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May 2013
10:59pm, 21 May 2013
65 posts
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Revbarbarag
There's something I'm not understanding here.... how could there be 300-400 flowers down a three mile stretch of lane? You plant one every half a mile, so one person would plant 6.... But if someone different ran there, they would pick them. Now if the same person ran there every day for 6 weeks, and no-one else did they would plant 6x42 =252 before they harvested the first ones.... If a different person was lucky enough to run there the day before harvest day, that would be a LOT of flowers..... Is that what happened?
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