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How should my runners run??

lorrainbow

My next element14 presents video uses an arduino to move runners along a track, according to their strava data. The first runner to reach 100km wins!

There's a short video on my twitter: 

The questions I have for my lovely element14 community is how should I move the runners?

At the moment they're running all of their kilometres at once, one at a time. e.g. runner1 runs their total 50km, runner2 runs their total 75km, etc.

We could make them all run at once. 

We could make them run each run at a time, e.g. runner1 runs their first run 5km, runner2 runs their first run 10km and so on and then loop back to runner1 and their 2nd run. OR finally all runners run run1, then all runners run run2, etc. 

EDIT: To clarify, it's not a live track. There's a button and when it's pressed all the runners reverse to the start line then start running. Otherwise I'd miss my runner moving!

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  • If you want to get really fancy, you could equate the time your avatar runners take to run the course (running continuously) to the total time the total race period is expected to take and have each avatar start each leg at a time proportionately equivalent to the time they actually reported running the leg. For example if the race period is 10 days and the avatars can run their course in 10 seconds; then each day or runner time corresponds to 1 second of avatar time. If a runner starts their first leg half a day after the race starts, then their avatar would start its first leg a half second after the avatar race start. If their second run starts 2 days into the race period, then the avatar's second leg would start 2 seconds into the avatar race. You might want to scale it so there is a minimum of 1 second between legs, because real runners will also have that 1 day gap. 

  • in reply to dougw

    If you are only running an hour a day that would mean the avatar would cover their distance for the day in 1/24 second. Although given that no-one is likely to be running >12h in one day, you could perhaps safely add 1/2 second to the avatar motion. 

    Apparently real runners use cars these days Slight smile

    https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-65322631

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