Bonehead INGRESS play today

So today was Bozeman's first Saturday event for Ingress. We also started doing the fitness awards today which involves basically distance traveled via running, walking, biking that kind of thing.

 So the first bonehead thing I did was forget that this event was happening today and I showed up with zero gear, but when I heard about the fitness thing I was like sweet I'm probably going to be the only person on a bike.

So we get started and I am pumping like crazy all over town. Building a portals where I can and blowing up other ones as I collect enough gear to do so. Feeling really good about this and I'm sweating pretty hard. I stopped at one point at a bar to have a quick beer and fill my water bottle and I'm like yeah I can do this. 

Here's the bonehead part, I kept forgetting to leave the app open as I'm traveling around. So by the end of the day we get back and were inputting everything, my total traveled says 2 km. The guys who tied for the prize each came in with 5 km.

So I get home from the event knowing  I'm a bonehead now and I think '5 km is a lot that's pretty hardcore', then I remembered that my iPhone has this health app that says distance run or walked in the day. So I rock that puppy open and I look at it, grand total traveled over the day was 7.31 miles. I will grant that counts riding to the event and home from it, but I hadn't gone anywhere else at that point. Anyone who wants to do the conversion would have my gratitude if you posted it in the comments.

So that was my bonehead maneuver that cost me a win today. So if you're an Ingress player and you're going for this kind of thing it is important to remember to leave the app open. You all have a good day now and I hope it is as pretty where you are as it was here. 😃