The third virtual run I completed for my Fun Walking Not Running Around the World (Virtual Tour) was the Tahiti run. As mentioned in a previous blog post, I decided to do a virtual international Fun Walking Not Running Tour as the COVID-19 pandemic put a stop to my plans to start a “real world” international tour. Virtual Run Events
Read moreThe second virtual run I completed for my Fun Walking Not Running Around the World (Virtual Tour) was the Canada run. As mentioned in a previous blog post, I decided to do a virtual international Fun Walking Not Running Tour as the COVID-19 pandemic put a stop to my plans to start a “real world” international tour. Virtual Run Events
Read moreShortly after publishing my first blog post on my Fun Walking Not Running Around the World (Virtual Tour), I decided to sign up to every world race on offer by Virtual Run Events. I will be completing the world races I’ve signed up for in the following order: USA Canada Tahiti Tonga Thailand Qatar Lebanon England Switzerland Monaco Spain Portugal
Read moreI talked about my decision to try a new type of virtual run/challenge, the Conqueror Events in a previous blog post. The first Conqueror Virtual Challenge I decided to try was the English Channel. The English Channel challenge is the shortest Conqueror challenge at 21 miles/34 km and virtually takes participants across the width of the English Channel between England
Read moreI’ve decided to give a different type of virtual run/challenge a try, the Conqueror Virtual Challenges. The Conqueror Virtual Challenges provide participants a variety of challenges/virtual missions with various distances that are the equivalent of travelling to, from, through or around various global landmarks. The current Conqueror Virtual Challenges are: The English Channel (21 miles/34 km) The Inca Trail (26.2
Read moreAssignment 3 of the Year 11 Mathematics Standard (Pathway 2) Course that I’m doing at TAFE consisted of questions from chapters 7-9 of the textbook: Linear Functions, Interest and Depreciation, and Owning A Car. I submitted Assignment 3 to my teacher on 8 October 2020 and received my marks and feedback from my teacher on 22 October 2020. I got
Read moreAssignment 2 of the Year 11 Mathematics Standard (Pathway 2) Course that I’m doing at TAFE consisted of questions from chapters 4-6 of the textbook: Probability, Measurement, and Managing A Home. I submitted Assignment 2 to my teacher on 4 August 2020 and received my marks and feedback from my teacher on 19 August 2020. I got 35 out of
Read moreFollowing on from my previous post about my love of formulas, I came across more of them in chapter 5, when I reached the exercises that focus on area, volume and surface area. As mentioned in a previous post, I’ve always loved formulas as I believe having a formula to follow is the easiest way to solve a mathematical problem
Read moreAnother topic in Chapter 5 of the textbook that interested me was error in measurement. The textbook stated that no measurement is ever exact and that when we use a device to take a measurement, there is always some error which can be caused by a fault in the measuring device, an inappropriate measuring device, and human error. Exercise 5.02
Read moreChapter 5 of my textbook (the longest chapter) is all about measurement. Exercise 5.01 focused on metric units and converting between metric units (i.e. converting cm to mm, g to kg, kg to t, and so on). Although there weren’t any questions on converting metric units to imperial units or vice versa, this exercise made me think about metrication in
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