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I'm new here so maybe this has been done, but is there a way to challenge route with jump points? For the TdF, for example, the team would go through each of the stages, automatically jumping from the end of one stage to the beginning of the next?
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This is one for Holly. I tried it last year for Giro d'Italia but had to link the stages together with a route.
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Bump...Holly? Whoever you are? :)
I have a bunch of friends who would come here if we could get this capability, and probably stay here.
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Oooh I missed this entirely! Sorry! I've been busy :o- I'm not sure about the stages - would you really want it in the much detail? Drawing out the courses like that takes a lot of time (ask Hammerite!) Are you all cycling? Or running? How many to a team? How long do you reckon it will take you? When are you starting? It's a long way around the tdf!
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Hollywoof wrote:Oooh I missed this entirely! Sorry! I've been busy :o-
I'm not sure about the stages - would you really want it in the much detail? Drawing out the courses like that takes a lot of time (ask Hammerite!)
Are you all cycling? Or running? How many to a team? How long do you reckon it will take you? When are you starting? It's a long way around the tdf! Yes it does take a long time. I'm considering the Giro next, but that was a PITA last year compared to the classics I've just done. The inner geek in me likes to think that the stages can be plotted separately, and then totalled together. But I'm guessing it's not a really high priority.
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What would happen if a challenge was made up of x stages of the same sport? Would the 'progress' bar move along each route concurrently or sequentially?
The path of least resistance is the path of the loser. - H. G. Wells
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BeerMatt wrote:What would happen if a challenge was made up of x stages of the same sport? Would the 'progress' bar move along each route concurrently or sequentially? I was thinking sequentially, so as a team, you move virtually through the TdF.
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Just so I understand... You'd really rather see the current position as a "zoomed in" position on a single stage rather than "zoomed out". Way back when we did the original tour de oz challenges - http://www.runsaturday.com/Race/Challenges/Challenge/1 - then this would have meant that at any one time you'd just have just seen a little map of Wallaballo (or wherever) instead of seeing a line moving across Oz:   Just trying to understand
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I think they're trying to replicate the TdF as closely as possible.
A single "bike route" following the tour route would involve lots of transition from "endofstage1" to "startofstage2" (etc.), adding to the total mileage of the virtual "tour".
One suggestion would be a challenge featuring 21 separate bike "routes" (one route per TdF stage). My question is: would RunSat allocate mileage to each the stages consecutively (finish stage one, then start stage two), or would it just allocate the same bike mileage to every stage?
It's not the thumbnail that's the issue, but more the jumps from endofstage1 to startofstage2 (etc.) for the same sport in a single challenge. Otherwise, the challenge will be many, many more miles than the actual TdF!
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