Discussion: Pythagoras

Do the math — even on crazy steep hills, the extra distance doesn't add up to much. 10% climb adds less than 1/2 percent to the distance.

Well, that's a pretty unsatisfying result.

Makes me wonder what Phil would say. I bet he'd claim the hill made the course feel like 3.2 or 3.3 miles and that's what he'd go with, Pythagoras be damned

Pythagoras failed to account for the curvature of space, which, as everyone knows, is affected by the presence of massive bodies. And there is just such a massive body in Sunderland: one ice-cream inhaling sextagenarian.