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​The Premise

Inspired by something I recently heard about (the 4x4x40 challenge), I decided to create my own challenge, as a way to mark this birthday milestone in a pandemically personal - and memorable - way.  And so, the ​3 x <21 x 71 x 50​ challenge was born:
​Every 3 hours, I run 71 yards in under 21 seconds, for 50 hours.

The Details

Since 50 is not divisible by 3, there was a 2-hour warm-up period (stretching, checking the "course," mental preparation, etc.) The warm-up started at 4 PM, Friday the 19th and the first run kicked off at 6 PM.  The final run was at 6 PM, Sunday. Progress was continually recorded (final tally below), and I rigged a live webstream of the site. The camera module has a (so-so) night-vision mode, so night owls could follow along at 3 AM!

The LiveStream Montage

Boiled down 50 hours of video to 7 minutes.  As always, the soundtrack makes the video.  Drew on some old-school tracks for this compilation (track list is at the end of the video).
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Notable segments:
1:15    First run was highly theatrical (a la the Jerry Seinfeld running style)
2:45    Translation of gestures: [sleep], [un poquito], [all good]
3:23    Note the windmilling on the turn
3:40    Had some fellas over to celebrate - beers were involved (see segment at 4:38 for ramifications ...)
4:08    KChan shakes head ("this guy ain't right")
4:38    Challenge is taking its toll
5:45    Final run; for no good reason, I decided a sub-12 time was necessary, and the old man still has some wheels

The heart and paw symbol on the hour board ... ask me about that if you're curious.

Final Tally

Map

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DIY  Video Rig

Geek Links

Hardware:
Raspberry Pi 3 Model B+
Arducam Automatic Day/Night Camera Module
Outdoor mount setup for the camera

Code / Cloud:
Raspberry Pi IP Cam AWS and HLS Streaming
Using the C++ Producer SDK on Raspberry Pi
Amazon Kinesis Video Streams Media Viewer
GStreamer
Amazon Kinesis Video Streams
Amazon Simple Storage Service (S3)

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