Well, I managed to improve my EFC time by 15 minutes, to 27 hours 21 minutes. As seems to be the case with most improvements, it happened with a paradigm shift – where instead of making minor improvements to an existing route, I just tried something new. And as also seems to usually be the case, the improvement happened pretty much by accident. I was browsing through an older route that I had created and noticed that one of the lines I had written 54 miles when really it was only 8 miles, which dropped the time from somewhere in the mid 28s to 27:48.<\/p>\n
So I took that and used some of the things I’ve learned about routes, and was able to whittle the time down to 27:21. I varied it again and came up with a 27:32 route. The basic gist of this new route is instead of taking the Turnpike<\/a> from OH 6<\/a>6<\/a> across the top of Ohio, I get off at OH 4 <\/a>and take that down to the middle-western counties (Wyandot, Crawford, Hancock, Hardin, etc). A variation of this route I think was originally proposed by Jim<\/a>, back in the day.<\/p>\n ETA I shaved another 15 minutes off of it by taking Hancock and Hardin from the west instead of the east. 27:06!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Well, I managed to improve my EFC time by 15 minutes, to 27 hours 21 minutes. As seems to be the case with most improvements, it happened with a paradigm shift – where instead of making minor improvements to an existing route, I just tried something new. And as also seems to usually be the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.regoarrarr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.regoarrarr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.regoarrarr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.regoarrarr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.regoarrarr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=27"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.regoarrarr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.regoarrarr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=27"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.regoarrarr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=27"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.regoarrarr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=27"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}