[SPOILERS] Watch pindicator get distracted by shiny bonuses

[NobleHelium]

Oh so the van (and presumably the relay) stops? I thought you just kept on going and ate/slept in shifts.

[pindicator]

Oh so the van (and presumably the relay) stops? I thought you just kept on going and ate/slept in shifts.

I wasn't quite sure how it worked until I saw it in action myself.

Each team has two vans of six people. The van will drop off the runner at an exchange point and then drive ahead to the next exchange point while the runner is running his or her leg. Then at the next exchange we get the next runner up to the hand off point, and once the exchange happens get the runner who just finished into the van and drive off again to the next exchange.

The break happens once we cycle through our sixth person - we go to the first person in the next van and then they get to go through all their runners. Which means we have however long it takes them to go through all their runners to get some food, shower (if possible), and try to get an hour or two of sleep before they finish their legs and we are up again.

The first rest was the best one: we finished in downtown Portland and one of our van lived just a mile from there. Ordered pasta takeout, crashed at his place for a couple hours of sleep, and then drove on to St Helens for the second legs. That's when it got a bit crazy. First there was a fire in St Helens that closed the highway and diverted the course (someone in the first van had to run an extra two miles) and caused a ton of congestion. Second, once we left the main highway and onto the back roads there was constant congestion. There would be a line of vans waiting to get into the exchange point and usually we'd have to send the runner on ahead once we stopped to make sure he got to the relay by the time the previous runner made it. On most occasions we pulled it off, but not getting to stop and stretch your legs or make a sandwich / change out of sweaty clothes was a big loss.

Total time for our team was a little over 27 hours. I was happy with how I ran my legs of the race. I ran one of the hardest ones in the race at St Helens in the middle of the night - lots of steep hills but I kept a 8 min/mile pace and passed lots of people. My last leg was short and mostly downhill, so I went as hard as I could and did those 4 miles in under a 7/min mile pace. Haven't run that fast in a while, so it was nice to accomplish. After that it was cheering on the team, and when we got to the beach we got some beers, found a brew pub and had burgers, then slept all of the 2 hour drive home.

I am exhausted So I'll play my turn tomorrow

[CFCJesterFool]

Congratulations are in order. Sounds like you had fun.

[pindicator]

Oh yeah, it was a blast.

Seven, when do you want to declare victory? Probably after you crush a neighbor...

[scooter]

In non-civ notes, thanks for the write-up on your run. That looks really cool .

Did you ever consider rushing for stone before Pyramids or did you think there was no way it would last that long? Also, what kind of break-even beakers were you getting when we ended? I could never quite gauge how close you and I were in terms of position. It seemed pretty close, but my cottages were really starting to take off so I wasn't sure if I was pulling in techs quicker than you or not.

[pindicator]

Yeah, it was a fun weekend. It also shows how checked out I became that i put more time to write about the run than I did about updates to the game

The last save I was at breakeven at about 45%. 40% was 183bpt was +12gpt and 50% was 215bpt with -11gpt. Haven't got to your thread yet.

I was also in the middle of a massive settling spree, figuring that was the way I was going to claim 2nd place. I was also 4 turns from UoS and 6 turns from AP, and building religious buildings everywhere I could. I had 11 buildings and probably would have been at 15 by the time UoS finished.

Never mind that Seven's cuir could have taken out my southern cities by itself... :D

Pics!