# ESS-Related Rituals

**URL:** <https://community.citystrides.com/t/ess-related-rituals/27706>\
**Category:** General\
**Created:** [May 27, 2024, 1:41pm UTC](https://community.citystrides.com/t/ess-related-rituals/27706 "2024-05-27T13:41:04Z")\
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**Author:** ![kenjaylane](https://community.citystrides.com/user_avatar/community.citystrides.com/kenjaylane/32/3538_2.png) [@kenjaylane](https://community.citystrides.com/u/kenjaylane)\
**Post date:** [May 27, 2024, 1:41pm UTC](https://community.citystrides.com/t/ess-related-rituals/27706/1 "2024-05-27T13:41:04Z")

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I’ve found myself taking up a handful of rituals that help ensure that I’ve covered streets properly.

My main one had been, when coming to a dead-end road, contact has to be made beyond the road. If there’s a fence or a barrier, I have to physically touch it. I curb-stall on the terrain that is beyond the end of the road. Sometimes, it’s on a curb but sometimes its just grass or gravel. Much like an aggressive in-liner skater:

![curb-stall](https://d25dflut6m8e53.cloudfront.net/original/2X/f/ffe6a3e285489db14b153963497b48c6165bd260.jpeg)  
However, last week, I went to do this—meaning to do so quickly and keep going. I didn’t bring my foot up high enough and I kicked the curb. I run in sandals, so I skinned my pinkie toe and had to do a patch-job on the fly. 😆

There’s another CityStride in my town that I trade notes with. He said he does/did the same thing, until he slipped on some gravel and fell on his butt to a full audience of apartment dwellers on their way to work.

Will I keep curb-stalling? Of course. Will I be more careful? We’ll see. 😆

Do any of you have any weird ESS-rituals that help your efforts—or at least feel like they might?

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**Author:** ![svendo42](https://community.citystrides.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/s/edb3f5/32.png) [@svendo42](https://community.citystrides.com/u/svendo42)\
**Post date:** [May 30, 2024, 5:06am UTC](https://community.citystrides.com/t/ess-related-rituals/27706/2 "2024-05-30T05:06:06Z")

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I often extend my watch wearing arm at the end of a street just to give GPS a little extra time to register - curb-stalling on the move… Hope the pinkie is better.  
I’ll be more mindful to think of other things I do without realising.

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**Author:** ![svendo42](https://community.citystrides.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/s/edb3f5/32.png) [@svendo42](https://community.citystrides.com/u/svendo42)\
**Post date:** [May 30, 2024, 12:41pm UTC](https://community.citystrides.com/t/ess-related-rituals/27706/3 "2024-05-30T12:41:33Z")

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Whilst on a run this morning I realised that when I have the option of running on pavements/sidewalks either side of a road, I choose the one that has my watch wearing wrist closest to the centre of the road, thereby increasing the chances of each GPS point being close enough to the nodes - so for me, that’s the right hand side pavement/sidewalk.

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**Author:** ![kenjaylane](https://community.citystrides.com/user_avatar/community.citystrides.com/kenjaylane/32/3538_2.png) [@kenjaylane](https://community.citystrides.com/u/kenjaylane)\
**Post date:** [May 30, 2024, 1:40pm UTC](https://community.citystrides.com/t/ess-related-rituals/27706/4 "2024-05-30T13:40:56Z")

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I’ve also noticed that I tend to hit any short dead-ends in sight, even if I’ve already accounted for them in my GPX route. This messed up my nav yesterday, as it thought I had decided to forgo a certain section and set me off toward my end section. I need to start trusting my own routes! 😆