so I walk a few miles every morning looked for an app help me be more intentional about taking streets I've never taken before and was susprised when https://citystrides.com/ pulled in... every walk I've ever recorded in strava.
it's neat seeing the stark difference between tight squiggles of political lit drops up and down steps from years ago (usually hanging door cards on every house doorknob on a turf of a few blocks) next to meanderings of normal walks on sidewalks
Well this got out of hand, as usual with me.
I wanted to make a goal for myself, so I started adjusting where I went so that I can have walked every street b/w 20th, valencia, 30th, and market (but not market).
The last few walks have been weirdo routes to tag dead end streets and main drags.
I had intended to finish tonight but I was too hungry for the last few blocks of Noe.
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kindof a typical weekday: walk the kid to Flynn, continue on to try to hit blocks I've never logged walking, do about 5 miles, be back by 9-ish. But, today, I finally logged the last few blocks of Noe in the somewhat arbitrary bounds I established for myself to completion.
New bounds: from Caesar Chavez to 101 to 280 to San Jose Ave.
🏁 what I'm considering Mission Dolores, Castro, and Eureka Valley, bound by Market, Valencia, and 20th.
Glen Park next for real this time, I think. Or Potrero Hill. Maybe both.
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🏁 what I'm considering Glen Park and Diamond Heights, bound by Portola, Diamond Heights Blvd, San Jose, Bosworth, and O'Shaughnessy Blvd
🏁 what I'm considering Potrero Hill, bound by Division, 280, Cesar Chavez, and 101
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🏁 what I'm considering "the rest of Eureka Valley", Clarendon Heights?, Upper Market, and Midtown Terrace. I'm gonna have to come back for the interior of Laguna Honda.
I've bee consistently pecking away since my last post in April, but for most of them I need to "get there" first which makes it harder to do in the morning. I’d rather bike when I have that much time. Then summer break started, vacations, etc.
Next idk, maybe Dogpatch and Mission Bay?
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🏁 what I'm considering Sunnyside (including City College like https://sunnysideassociation.org/the-neighborhood/ does seems greedy)
City College has so many damned pathways that it's going to take a bunch of tedious human pen-plotter meanders that I'm going to consider it its own thing, like I did w/ Laguna Honda which I already walked but Strava paused as I put my phone back in my pocket from the top of the trailhead so I gotta go do again at some point.
Bonus, I can start from Balboa Park BART for a while now.
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🏁 what I'm considering Mission Bay and Dogpatch.
Being from Maryland, I wondered where Maryland Street, once I found, many years ago, that most of the state-named streets, are along the eastern side of the city here. Maryland St. specifically is right on the waterfront. But you can only get to a few blocks at a time between all the industry.
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🏁 what I'm considering The Excelsior.
Lovely neighborhood of sidewalk gardens and views. Dipping into McLaren Park for the final few east side walks was a nice bonus. Getting there on the 14 or 49 or BART was convenient but the time it took limited how often I could get any miles in on weekday mornings. Luckily the buses stop a block from my house and are running by 6AM those mornings.
Next: Outer Mission, or Portola?
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🏁 what I'm considering SOMA, Rincon Hill, and South Beach loosely and not accurately bound by 16th Street, Market Street the Embarcadero, and Mission Creek.
I don't get to SOMA very often, and when I do it's from Muni or a BART or whatever so it was mentally just a bunch of islands.
Lots and lots of half-block alleys to dead ends, and in fact I left the dead ends of Welsh St. from Fifth and Morris unwalked. Oh well.
Next: starting on the north side of market.
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🏁 what I'm considering Portola, bound by 280, San Bruno Ave (or 101 I guess?), Mansell St, McLaren Park, and uh, the Excelsior? The north ridge of Visitacion Knob?
Poor winter weather, always a two-bus transfer to get there and to get back, and strava glitching out by 101 more than once made this take a long time to complete.
I also started biking weekdays for cardio instead of walking, so I had to put off the far corner for weekends.
@scott I did and didn’t. Neat!
I passed it near the very end of today's walk and looked down a vantage point a lot like that by the Hillary Ronen sign, back to the coffee shop behind me, considered taking a break, then decided to head for the 9 Muni to make it to a birthday party we'd been invited to.
Definitely going to come back to check that out w/ the family some time soon.
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scott f