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'Oh no, I spelled it wrong': Nurse runs solo marathon in shape of 'Boston Strog'
- mgsouth 7y ago>It took Lindsay Devers months of training and meticulous planning to plot out her marathon-length run along the Boston riverside to spell out an inspirational message for her city. But in the end, she forgot one important thing — the letter N. QA failure :) She had multiple friends look over the plan, and everybody missed it.
- goldenkey 7y agoSounds like BS. Probably just a publicity stunt. I mean, if you draw out the route first, you clearly are gonna notice the N missing. Only way this is believable is if she didn't draw it out first. That seems a rather arcane way to plan something (as verbal directions -- turn here, turn there, etc..) I think any sane person would just draw it out like a maze.
- prawn 7y agoYou can see where she should’ve started the S but didn’t go far enough. Then must’ve seen the park and run the G as planned.
- goldenkey 7y ago?? The N is missing. Not the S
- prawn 7y agoI’m saying she planned to start the S one block further on to the left of the image but messed up at some point. She knew she needed to finish the G before the park. So she started the S in the wrong place, continued TRO and then thought she must’ve been up to the G given the park was in sight. If she started the S a block to the left, it would’ve been centred with BOSTON.
- brockwhittaker 7y ago"Boston strog" is how you would say "Boston Strong" if you had a cold, perhaps. Cute.
- cafard 7y agoPrecisely: my first thought was of Guys and Dolls, and "A Person Could Develop a Cold".
- bitwize 7y agoThat would be "Bostod Strog"
- arcticbull 7y agoSo it would be how you would sound out "Boston Strong" if you developed a cold half way through the marathon haha.
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- preinheimer 7y agoSee also: the Brookyln Bridge poster - https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/cameronmoll/the-brooklyn-bridge-in-letterpress-type/posts/704856 https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/cameronmoll/the-brookly...
- ipsum2 7y agoThat's pretty funny, I had to do a second take to notice the typo. I wonder if it's because there aren't any modern words that end in -lyn or are close to brooklyn.
- claar 7y agoYes! Discussed on HN: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6967978 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6967978
- laxatives 7y agoHappens all the time when you are type setting, like writing in LaTeX. Its not designed to be your word processor and its easy to think you making minor edits/fixes when you are really quietly destroying everything you had already revised dozens of times.
- gorgoiler 7y agoWhat’s a good alternative workflow? I’d be quite interested to know as what you said identifies with what I’ve experienced.
- laxatives 6y agoI think getting your source file into Github and having it go through peer-review is the best way to avoid these types of issues. Also changing the diff format from 'diff-by-line' to 'diff-by-word' improves readability a lot.
- mattlondon 7y agoIronically enough, they also spelt the title wrong too. I guess this is one of those en-US-vs-the-rest-of-the-english-speaking-world weirdnesses? I've never seen/heard "spelled" before in my native-English-speaking life as far I can remember.
- tropdrop 7y agoBritish is spelt. US is spelled. [1] [2] 1 - https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/spell https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/spell 2 - https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/spelt https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/spelt
- generatorguy 7y agoThe CBC should be using British spelling!!
- jkaplowitz 7y agoCanadian spelling is a hybrid of British and American. For example, centre not center, but aluminum not aluminum. For this particular word (spelled/spelt), British spelling allows both forms interchangeably, with spelled mildly preferred in Canada but both may be found: https://grammarist.com/spelling/spelled-spelt/ https://grammarist.com/spelling/spelled-spelt/
- mkl 7y ago> aluminum not aluminum Looks like you mean "aluminum not aluminium"?
- jkaplowitz 7y agoHah, yes. Thanks for the important correction!
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- cultus 7y agoIt least it wasn't Boston Strogg.
- solstice 7y agoSo we can rule out she's a Quake fan?
- yellow_lead 7y ago"Oops, look at me!"
- markstos 7y agoHats off to her. I ran a marathon-distance run each of the last four weekends and all I managed to spell was "O". Good way to escape the news cycle for a few hours!
- runnr_az 7y agoLots of good weirdness out there in the ultra running world. This dude ran 70k around his kitchen table! https://twitter.com/kilianj/status/1253576272707551232 https://twitter.com/kilianj/status/1253576272707551232
- schoen 7y agoWow, a considerably smaller radius than the race that runs around one city block over 5,000 times: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Self-Transcendence_3100_Mile_Race https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Self-Transcendence_3100_Mile_R...
- ck2 7y agoof course so much better than if she did it right, imagine the fun laughter someday if you wore this as a t-shirt at the race but seriously, wtf who registered the domain name?!
- brenden2 7y agoTangentially related: I rode cross country (on a bike) from SF to NYC, and on the last day when I arrived in Manhattan (around 3 or 4am, I think) I decided to write LOL in SoHo with the GPS. If you happen to have a Strava account (I don't use Strava anymore) you can see it here by zooming in on Manhattan: https://www.strava.com/activities/685757465 https://www.strava.com/activities/685757465 Edit: just realized it's also available from Garmin: https://connect.garmin.com/modern/activity/1316969958 https://connect.garmin.com/modern/activity/1316969958
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- hinkley 7y ago> All these times that we are currently having are so uncertain and I just wanted to, like, show that there's a little bit of normalcy still in life. What’s more normal than a very public typo?
- laurieg 7y agoMy favourite spelling mistake is from the Nottingham County Gaol and is all the worse for being set in stone: https://i.imgur.com/h6XiZE3.jpg https://i.imgur.com/h6XiZE3.jpg Take a close look at the word "gaol". Originally, the stone mason spelt it as goal and had to try to tidy it up as best he could.
- sharkweek 7y ago“That’s great! But who are the Chefs?” https://youtu.be/m9zQLSS9LHw https://youtu.be/m9zQLSS9LHw
- gorgoiler 7y agoOwning a mistake like that so openly is pretty inspiring, in an already upbeat story.
- boublepop 7y agoCall me a cynic but these days it just seems like “mistakes” like these and the many examples from commercials and games must be deliberate. I mean why try to aim for something flawless when intentional mistakes can help make your content go viral.
- rimutaka 7y agoIt's a painful "mistake". Running a marathon is painful. Your legs run out of glycogen after about 30km and all you can think of is "I want to stop". I'm surprised her mind was sharp enough to pick up the mistake. Time: 3h 46m, pace: 5:21. That's fast for what is more like a training run. She could probably do solid 5:00 pace in a real competition. https://www.strava.com/activities/3326004383 https://www.strava.com/activities/3326004383
- amelius 7y agoI think parent meant that it may have been planned before the actual running. Also, forgetting one letter is less painful than having surplus letters.
- amelius 7y agoBy the way, if you look at that map, the path would require more spacing between the O and the G, because the vertical pillars of N would otherwise overlap with the vertical lines in O and G. Compare with the spacing between O and N in "BOSTON".
- cowsandmilk 7y ago> 3h 46m, pace: 5:21 For the Americans like me who are briefly confused, that is per km pace. More like 8:37 per mile.
- fpoling 7y agoOne can train the body to burn some fat when running even when glycogen stores are full. That allows to push the depletion phase past the marathon distance. But according to my buddy who runs marathons such training is in itself is rather painful.
- ykevinator 7y agoIsn't it sort of a dick move to run that long in a lockdown? At least she got likes I guess.