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donheff 03-14-15 06:20 AM

Anyone taking a pi day pie ride?
 
It is raining and miserable here in DC so no ride for me. But some of you must be planning to stop for pie this morning at 9:26 (3.1415926.....) in honor of a once in a century PI day, right?

qcpmsame 03-14-15 06:57 AM

Definitely taking a Pi day ride, this afternoon. hopefully it won't be in the rain.

Bill

plumberroy 03-14-15 07:59 AM

This is my first week back riding in nearly a year my goal for this week is 20 miles (I know that isn't much but you have to start some where) I am at 19.2 so I will ride at least a mile some time today. That rain is just leaving southwest Ohio so later I should be able to take a some what dry ride
Roy

RonH 03-14-15 09:49 AM

I forget it was pi day and did my ride yesterday -- Friday the 13th. :eek: Fortunately no bad luck. Just great weather and a nice ride. :beer:

But to redeem myself I may take my bride out for some pie later today. :)

David Bierbaum 03-14-15 09:53 AM

This is a special Pi Day, with the extra two digits. 3-14-15. I may get out for a bit, if rain permits. I think I see the sun trying to peek out at this very moment...

fietsbob 03-14-15 10:05 AM

To a Bakery .. Rain is being permitted, it would rain even without a Permit issued .. It's doing that Now ..

John E 03-14-15 11:33 AM

Our engineering school held its 4th annual Pi run yesterday, because Pi Day falls on a weekend this year. My elder son, who is a PhD candidate in plasma physics, joined me. He decided to hang back with me for the first couple of miles, then took off for the finish.

I missed my goal of 30 minutes for the 3.14 miles, but at least beat 35 minutes with an official time of 34:57. The heart and lungs could very easily have handled a faster pace and/or another 5 kilometers, but 11-minute miles are about all my legs are good for without risk of damage. (Maybe this is why I prefer bicycling. :) )

To answer the key question for this group, yes they do serve pie at the end of the run. :) The run was for a very worthy cause, the San Diego Science Alliance, of which I am a member and mentor for aspiring STEM (I prefer STEAM, since my wife is an oil painter and I am a music lover and amateur pianist) students.

Pi-Mile Run/Walk at UCSD, March 13, 2015 | San Diego Science Alliance

LesterOfPuppets 03-14-15 11:38 AM

Rainy and blustery here, but braved the weather for the 5.5 miles to Freddy's and back to grab a blueberry pie for me and the missus and served it up by 9:26.

OldsCOOL 03-14-15 12:18 PM

At 3.14 a slice? That is a bargain.

Cougrrcj 03-14-15 12:25 PM

https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?f...1330139&type=1

Pizza counts, right??

LesterOfPuppets 03-14-15 12:25 PM


Originally Posted by OldsCOOL (Post 17630224)
At 3.14 a slice? That is a bargain.

$2.99 for the whole pie. I'm not made of money! :)

OldsCOOL 03-14-15 12:42 PM


Originally Posted by LesterOfPuppets (Post 17630241)
$2.99 for the whole pie. I'm not made of money! :)

I'll take the whole pie, regardless. :)

LesterOfPuppets 03-14-15 12:45 PM


Originally Posted by OldsCOOL (Post 17630278)
I'll take the whole pie, regardless. :)

If it was sunny out today, I'd be:

http://orhistory.com/wordpress/wp-co...03/KAOH9.4.jpg

John E 03-14-15 04:09 PM

Speaking of Pi (count the number of letters per word)

Poe, E.
Near a Raven

Midnights so dreary, tired and weary.
Silently pondering volumes extolling all by-now obsolete lore.
During my rather long nap - the weirdest tap!
An ominous vibrating sound disturbing my chamber's antedoor.
"This", I whispered quietly, "I ignore".

tarwheel 03-14-15 04:26 PM

Yes, the rain finally quit here about 3:14 pm and I rode about 31.4 miles give or take a few. Now we are going to get some pie, pizza pie that is. Would it be too much to ask them to arrange the pepperonis in the shape of pi?

Bikey Mikey 03-14-15 04:36 PM

Raining all day today. I did eat pie today, MIL's Bday, and will do a belated π day.

StanSeven 03-14-15 04:46 PM


Originally Posted by David Bierbaum (Post 17629853)
This is a special Pi Day, with the extra two digits. 3-14-15. I may get out for a bit, if rain permits. I think I see the sun trying to peek out at this very moment...

Except I think the real value is 3.1416

LesterOfPuppets 03-14-15 04:49 PM


Originally Posted by StanSeven (Post 17630816)
Except I think the real value is 3.1416

That's why you celebrate at 9:26 (I forget the seconds to get the next two digits.)

Next year we'll omit the time of day and just round it off to 4 decimal places.

irwin7638 03-14-15 05:17 PM

The only excuse I need to eat is an appetite. The only excuse I need to ride is to go somewhere.

Marc

David Bierbaum 03-14-15 05:57 PM

Curse you, round off error! :) Well, I went out almost to the Old Chain of Rocks Bridge, but turned around early, because I didn't want to ride across the mushy mud that crossed the levi access road at one spot. So I only got in 20 miles, but I finished it off with some hot apple pie, and a scoop of Ben and Jerry's Vanilla icecream. I give it a 22, on a scale from 1 to 7! :D

Cougrrcj 03-14-15 06:16 PM


Originally Posted by StanSeven (Post 17630816)
Except I think the real value is 3.1416

The first 50 decimal digits are 3.14159265358979323846264338327950288419716939937510

qcpmsame 03-14-15 07:01 PM

I'm an engineer, Monica was a mathematics major/teacher, of course I got in the ride on Pi day! No pie to eat, can't eat any of them with the CKD and I just don't care for sweets.

Pizza, of course, counts!

Bill

Dan Burkhart 03-14-15 07:58 PM

Yup, pi ride done. Didn't have a lot of time because we had to get to our destination to check in, but we managed to get in a 10 mile ride on the Withlacoochee between Ocala and Tampa.

http://i61.tinypic.com/fkun9k.jpg

The pie came later for dessert after supper. Chocolate cream.

http://i59.tinypic.com/ri84ro.jpg

StanSeven 03-14-15 08:34 PM


Originally Posted by Cougrrcj (Post 17631011)
The first 50 decimal digits are 3.14159265358979323846264338327950288419716939937510

Thanks. I will save this. I might need it someday��

donheff 03-15-15 07:13 AM


Originally Posted by StanSeven (Post 17630816)
Except I think the real value is 3.1416

We can use your version next year for a Rounded Pi Day. Maybe it will be nice in DC.


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