Monday, July 29, 2013
3.14
By now everybody who is anybody knows that the Brickyarders have no fewer than two as Sri would say Lady Legends, Lani Ralston and Tracy Vroeginday. The distances they covered: 140+ and 89+. The loop Tracy ran multiple times was, are you ready for this, 3.14 miles long. If this course were a perfect circle (which I expect it wasn't) how far away from the center of the circle was Tracy during the event?
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I hate to be a stickler, Lee. I know your fascination with numbers. The actual loop around the lake is 3.17 miles.
ReplyDeleteOK. But in a recent email to Sri et al you had 3.14. Now that we know it's 3.17, your distance run (88+) works (28 x 3.17). If the distance around *were* 3.14, what would the distance to the center be?
ReplyDeleteYeah, I was a bit sleep deprived when I sent the email and then realized it was 3.17.
ReplyDeleteWhy in the world would you have been sleep deprive?
ReplyDeletePS Sorry about the error in the total distance. 89.6.
Yet another observation (which links our two Lady Legends): Lani's bib number was 89.6, Tray's distance was 89.6.
ReplyDeleteOkay, that is freaky!
ReplyDeleteFreaky but off by a perfect 10 in Lani's case. Her bib was 896.
ReplyDeletePS This is what Tracy looked like as she crossed.
Tray!
Well nobody got it. The distance around a circle is always about 3. 14 * the distance across a circle (circumference equals pi times diameter) so if she ran 3. 14 miles around it must've been 1 mile across so it must have been 1 half mile to the center.
ReplyDeletePS
3.17 x 28 = 88.76
3.2 x 28 = 89.6
Maybe the course is 3.2?
Oh no, Lee, hopefully you weren't up all night trying to make the numbers work. I neglected to mention the short out and back at the start of the race that everyone did to accommodate those running the marathon distance. It was .9 so:
ReplyDelete3.17 x 28 = 88.76 + .9 = 89.66.
You should've heard me at the end. I was like, "Are you kidding me? It couldn't be 90 miles?" LOL