Originally Posted by
Just Bill
Open up Matt's magical map. This is the first run of this... but might change the way we not only watch, but potentially verify these hikes.
The 'pin' just refers to the way the map displays Joey's location. Matt has access to Joey's live track from his Spot Feed... then he uses witchcraft and secret sauce to then covert those pings into a delayed track that only shares his progress relative to day zero (his start). So Joey's exact start date is unknown, his current location is unknown... but you can see his progress in FKT time so his live location is irrelevant.
In addition- you can see him "racing" against the Self-Supported FKT times; Matt (current men's) and Anish (Current overall) .
I won't share the exact delay used- but Joey is virtually live if that makes sense. Every time his spot pings it updates the map.
As far as "watching along" instead of linear pace, this is directly relevant to where everyone is both geographically and in the context of their hike. Matt and Heather's time is fixed as it's completed, but Joey is running right beside them.
If you click on each pin near Killington for example you can see Joey (Green) 12d:8h:34, Anderson (yellow) 13d:6h,53m and Kirk (red)13d:14h:18m
These points are not extrapolated, they are real GPS pings- not social media or other updates. I used the last two green pins (pings) to run the Karl, Jen, Joey numbers.
If Jen's was on here you'd see his pin about 9 miles behind Jen at the "moment".
I think it's pretty amazing as a fan, even better as far as documentation.
'Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence.' and this is an extraordinary tool.