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.
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 from OH 66 across the top of Ohio, I get off at OH 4 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, back in the day.
ETA I shaved another 15 minutes off of it by taking Hancock and Hardin from the west instead of the east. 27:06!
3 responses to “EFC Improvements”
you always have to have something to make a statistic with. do you watch NUMB3RS on friday nights??
can you please fix it so your comments don’t show up as white on white?? very difficult to read
They show up as blue on white for me.