Paul Tierney Wainwrights Record Attempt

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I don't do any fell running myself, but this looks absolutely savage

http://live.opentracking.co.uk/pault19/?fbclid=IwAR2ZQQ1X_3KTCu9fCuRGzjLKuM...

 Michael Hood 17 Jun 2019
In reply to Glenn Sutcliffe:

Is still on course to beat the record?

Steve Birkenshaw just under 7 days ?

 elliptic 17 Jun 2019
In reply to Michael Hood:

Steve's record is 6:13:01, Paul's an hour or so ahead at the moment but long way to go yet.

 Simon Caldwell 17 Jun 2019
In reply to elliptic:

Yes, he's ahead, but has slept a lot less so plenty of potential for the wheels to fall off...

In reply to Simon Caldwell:

> Yes, he's ahead, but has slept a lot less so plenty of potential for the wheels to fall off...


It would appear his wheels are well and truely attached and working extremely well

 Tom the tall 20 Jun 2019
In reply to Glenn Sutcliffe:

On the home straight, good weather and tracker is at Newlands Pass- just the newlands horseshoe fells to do and in to Keswick for a staggering record, fingers crossed!

Post edited at 10:32
Deadeye 20 Jun 2019
In reply to Tom the tall:

Amazing.  Should we be worried that he's stuck between Knott Rigg and Robinson for the last 50'?

For interest, how is the route optimised?  Do folk just pore over maps or is there a machine algorithm that does it?  An optimsed route would make for quite a difference.

Post edited at 10:50
In reply to Deadeye:

Bit of info here, https://www.inov-8.com/blog/paultierneywainwright/

Looks like old school methods

 Phil1919 20 Jun 2019
In reply to Glenn Sutcliffe:

Wow, just checked route out......... 

 Dark-Cloud 20 Jun 2019
In reply to Deadeye:

He has used the Steve Birkinshaw route pretty much, it looks heavily optimised if you look at it closely, some of the lines don't look like you would expect them to be, Great End and Allen crags for juts one example.

 steveriley 20 Jun 2019
In reply to Glenn Sutcliffe:

Just the mighty Catbells to go!

In reply to steveriley:

Off catbells and on the way toward Keswick.... the dot seems to be moving well.

I cant even comprehend... i really cant

In reply to Glenn Sutcliffe:

2KM to go.
 

Deadeye 20 Jun 2019
In reply to Ghastly Rubberfeet:

looks like he's done it - 6 days, 6 hours and 4 minutes

Post edited at 14:07
In reply to Deadeye:

Just watched him arrive at moot hall on fb live. Sun and crowd in decent attendance

Deadeye 20 Jun 2019
In reply to Glenn Sutcliffe:

> Looks like old school methods


Wow. 50 miles and 5750m ascent every day.  I couldn't do that once

 r0b 20 Jun 2019
In reply to idiotproof (Buxton MC):

Video of Paul finishing at the Moot Hall: https://twitter.com/inov_8/status/1141696190288977920?s=20

In reply to r0b:

That was a better angle than the fb live.

I've chucked a few quid at his just giving page https://www.justgiving.com/fundraising/paul-tierneywainwrights214

 ablackett 21 Jun 2019
In reply to Deadeye:

I don't think it would be easy to do it with a "machine algorithm".  I'm not saying it would be impossible, but it certainly isn't an easy problem to minimise a function of distance and ascent with 214 nodes.  It is like a two dimensional version of the travelling salesman problem, more details here.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Travelling_salesman_problem

I'm intrigued by this quote from Wikipedia "It has been observed that humans are able to produce near-optimal solutions[to the travelling salesman problem] quickly, in a close-to-linear fashion, with performance that ranges from 1% less efficient for graphs with 10-20 nodes, and 11% more efficient for graphs with 120 nodes"  Surely it's not saying that humans can produce near optimal solutions 11% quicker than computers?

 DaveHK 21 Jun 2019
In reply to ablackett:

> I don't think it would be easy to do it with a "machine algorithm".  

I heard he used slime mould:

https://www.theguardian.com/cities/2014/feb/18/slime-mould-rail-road-transp...

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 Southvillain 21 Jun 2019
In reply to Glenn Sutcliffe:

Can anyone tell me which is the ridge they're on in the little videoclip embedded in the story? Thanks.

 Dark-Cloud 21 Jun 2019
In reply to Southvillain:

Which video, the one in the first link to the Invo8 blog ? I cant see a ridge in it, the running all looks like its filmed around Coniston mines.

 Southvillain 21 Jun 2019
In reply to Dark-Cloud:

> Which video, the one in the first link to the Invo8 blog ? I cant see a ridge in it, the running all looks like its filmed around Coniston mines.


I was about to say `it's the one in the news piece, that's apparently on FB', but when I clicked on the FB logo it took me to the page at which it says "summiting Ards Crags"...so I've answered my own question! But thanks for trying to help.

iusedtoclimb 02 Jul 2019
In reply to Southvillain:

Great podcast with Paul talking about the run- check out British Ultra Running podcast 

paul is my running coach, knew he was a good runner but now feels like I know a celebrity! He is an awesome coach for big mountain races- check out missing link coaching 

 Gone 02 Jul 2019
In reply to ablackett:

> I'm intrigued by this quote from Wikipedia "It has been observed that humans are able to produce near-optimal solutions[to the travelling salesman problem] quickly, in a close-to-linear fashion, with performance that ranges from 1% less efficient for graphs with 10-20 nodes, and 11% more efficient for graphs with 120 nodes"  Surely it's not saying that humans can produce near optimal solutions 11% quicker than computers?

I can’t read the paper in the reference, but my reading of that is if you allow a computer and a human each enough time to get a comparably decent solution of a problem with 60 nodes, and then ask them to solve a 120 node problem in twice the time they took before, and a 20 node problem in a third of the time, the computer  will do slightly better at the small problems and the human will do better at the large ones.

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 goose299 03 Jul 2019
In reply to iusedtoclimb:

Have you got a time stamp for when the interview with Paul starts? Don’t want to listen to the whole hour and 20 minute podcast

In reply to Glenn Sutcliffe:

What an achievement! We've published an interview with him this week: https://www.ukhillwalking.com/articles/features/paul_tierney_on_his_wainwri...

iusedtoclimb 05 Jul 2019
In reply to goose299:

Sorry I don’t remember, the first 10 mins or so are the two hosts talking about their running.


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