An oulipian procedure involves picking two points, A and B, and attempting to walk a straight line between the two points. It is always impossible, but the point is to come as close to a straight line as possible using whatever means at your disposal, including compass, GPS, and dead reckoning.
Today's map is a blank because it is a rest day (my first break from running in 13 days), and so I thought Lewis Carroll's "Ocean Chart" a map of a featureless portion of ocean, to be appropriate.
I am planning a run for tomorrow: day 8 will feature my own attempt to run a straight line. I have the line programmed into my Garmin, so it won't be hard, and I'm following the full oulipian programme, which means that once I've done my line, I have to rejoin the two ends again. Here's the route:
It's a nice one because it's long, and it has lots of elevation. I will run it in road shoes despite the majority of it being in forest.
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