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Running at Parc Montsouris

July 24th, 2008

A gang of us have been running at Parc Montsouris on the weekend, which is in the south of Paris (nicely between all of us). It takes me about 25 minutes on public transport to get there, thanks to the nifty new green tramway.

But I can never accurately calculate the distance we run there. Last Sunday, we did six loops, which felt like about 10km. Armed with Google Earth, Google Maps, the path tool and a vector drawing program (the excellent Inkscape), I made a little map that shows the loop, and the possible shortcuts we can take off of it.

From Google Earth, I know that one loop around Montsouris, taking the outside path wherever possible, is 1.56km (or just about a mile). By shaving off the major corners, it’s 1.23km.

Therefore, last Sunday, we ran about 9.36km total.

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