Thursday, December 05, 2024

Man Ran 700 Miles to Make 'insanely impressive' Art on GPS Fitness App

The video is only 27 seconds long, but it took Duncan McCabe 10 months -- and about 700 miles -- to make it.

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Toronto man ran 700 miles to make 'insanely impressive' art on GPS fitness app Strava. It took Duncan McCabe 10 months to make a 27-second digital art video that has gone viral. www.washingtonpost.com/lifestyle/20 ... via @washingtonpost #running

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-- André Picard @picardonhealth (@picardonhealth.bsky.social) December 2, 2024 at 9:21 PM

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... McCabe, an avid runner and animation enthusiast, set out on a journey in January to create a now-viral TikTok of a dancing stick figure. He made it using the popular GPS-tracking app Strava, which connects runners, cyclists, hikers and walkers and allows them to record their routes.

Using Strava's map function, McCabe recorded 120 runs -- and when he strung each of the maps together, it revealed a hat-wearing stick figure dancing to the song "Purple Hat" across the streets of Toronto.

While the dancing man might look bare bones, creating it was complex -- and physically demanding. Many of his 120 runs were roughly 6 miles, but some were longer or shorter. ...



#1 | Posted by LampLighter at 2024-12-05 12:18 AM

Some people have just way too much time on their hands ;-)

OCU

#2 | Posted by OCUser at 2024-12-05 03:30 PM

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