Georgia Tech posted the results of Saturday’s Pi Mile 5K and shows me with a 33:34, which is right about what I thought. Woohoo! I’m very happy with that result, a 10:49/mile pace on a thoroughly hilly course. For those that have avoided math since high school, I should probably explain. Remember that pi is a never-ending number that is generally rounded to 3.14. And that’s just a hair over the 5K distance of 3.1 miles. And Georgia Tech is a school full of engineering dorks like me. Hence the Pi Mile 5K. (Yes, it was actually a 5K, not 3.14 miles.)
I also forgot to mention that the race t-shirt was perhaps my favorite of all time:
What’s not to love about a t-shirt that features a large pi that is actually constructed out of the digits of pi itself?
I’m home sick again. But I’m feeling much better. I expect to be back at work tomorrow.
I like the shirt!
That reminds me of a high school teacher who made me calculate pi to 100 decimal places for being disruptive in class.
History of the pi mile at GT – when I ran it in 99, the race actually WAS 3.14 miles. They changed it a couple years after that to 3.1 miles, which I think was a good decision b/c nobody likes to have their times buffered by 30 seconds.
There’s a savant that can recite Pi out to the 20,000th number. Random info…
LOL, I guess my geekiness is coming out, because I love that shirt and the whole pi race concept. 🙂
Actually, you might be “excited” to know that most 5Ks are longer 3.1 miles.
According to the USATF website, when measuring a course for certification, they typically add 10 meters per 10K. Ergo, 10ks are measured out at 10,010 meters. The correction factor that is added to a 5km is 16.4 feet (5 meters). I’m no math whiz, but a conversion site says 5 Meters = 0.0031068559611866697 Miles
So a 5K in miles is really 3.10310….not exact, but kinda reminds me of Pi, anyway.
Please excuse my complete dorkiness.