Links to Motionbased.com:
Day 1 (GPS on bike, Forerunner)
Day 2 (GPS on bike, Forerunner)
The GPS unit on my bike is a Garmin eTrex Vista which also detects altitude. I have it on my handlebars and use it as a bike computer to tell me speed, avg. pace, elevation, time until sunset, and things like that while I'm riding.
The ForeRunner 305 is a wrist-unit which can also grab my heartrate (except I forgot my HR chest strap at home for MS150) and cadence (except the sensor was bumped on the second day and didn't work) wirelessly from those sensors. The watch can only be recharged from a USB-type connector, so it crapped out in the middle of the second day. I sicne bought this thing at Best Buy that takes 2 AA batteries and powers a small USB plug. Good for cell phones and units like this on the road.
Count the one on my phone which I used to find out where I was in relation to roads and that was 3 GPS units total on one bike last weekend!
-CG
18 April 2008
13 April 2008
Done with 2008 MS150
Hell, yeah! Stick a fork in me, I'm done.
Location: Austin, leaving on a bus full of rather quiet riders. Some smelly, some refreshed with a shower.
Condition: I'm smelly. Had a small minor pain in my right knee at the end, I am crusted with a non-iodized salt, and my abs ache like they really got a good workout (thanks K^2!). Lower back sucks, but it's all part of getting old. I'm working on beer number 3 which helps to ease all pain, except for the people reading this post.
Outlook: Get back to car, get home, shower, go to a meeting on Gen Y stuff, work only a little tomorrow, pay more attention to home life, relax more, and probably skip the ride next year unless I have a change of heart in the next 6 months. Not that it isn't a great ride with an even better purpose and the best people, but at some point I need to get a little less goal-centric in my hobbies. Maybe after our hockey team wins its first championship game I'll do that. Hmmm... Aachen in late June, anyone? No goals there except roaming around three countries on a bike.
So before I nap, thanks for following along, and stay tuned for the tracks on motionbased!
-Gerty
Location: Austin, leaving on a bus full of rather quiet riders. Some smelly, some refreshed with a shower.
Condition: I'm smelly. Had a small minor pain in my right knee at the end, I am crusted with a non-iodized salt, and my abs ache like they really got a good workout (thanks K^2!). Lower back sucks, but it's all part of getting old. I'm working on beer number 3 which helps to ease all pain, except for the people reading this post.
Outlook: Get back to car, get home, shower, go to a meeting on Gen Y stuff, work only a little tomorrow, pay more attention to home life, relax more, and probably skip the ride next year unless I have a change of heart in the next 6 months. Not that it isn't a great ride with an even better purpose and the best people, but at some point I need to get a little less goal-centric in my hobbies. Maybe after our hockey team wins its first championship game I'll do that. Hmmm... Aachen in late June, anyone? No goals there except roaming around three countries on a bike.
So before I nap, thanks for following along, and stay tuned for the tracks on motionbased!
-Gerty
12 April 2008
in the park
Not sure if this will go through but I'll give it a shot.
I got to La Grange ("a-haw-how-how") at around 4:30pm after going against a nice dry head and side wind most of the way past lunch. Dry weather has been great!
Checked no bags and carrying all on bike. Cold tomorrow mornin so I think I"m sleeping in and taking one of the shorter routes.
Before you call me a woos i'll mention that I rode 100 miles today. 50 to go? Not quite.
I got to La Grange ("a-haw-how-how") at around 4:30pm after going against a nice dry head and side wind most of the way past lunch. Dry weather has been great!
Checked no bags and carrying all on bike. Cold tomorrow mornin so I think I"m sleeping in and taking one of the shorter routes.
Before you call me a woos i'll mention that I rode 100 miles today. 50 to go? Not quite.
11 April 2008
Changing Gears
I'm going to expand the Germany blog to track progress on the MS150 I'm doing tomorrow. The plan is to leave from Tully Stadium in West Houston at ~8am, and be in La Grange by 2 or so. If you're interested, there are a couple of ways to track my progress during the ride.
The first one is this chip they gave us to attach to our shoe and send e-mail and text message alerts to people who sign up for the service. It's pretty much to save people a phone call or text to say "I'm at the Lunch Stop" so they can meet up. Go to http://www.racedayalert.com/BPMS150/Default.aspx and enter rider 1198. It will show up as Mike Kane (my nom de plume for the MS150 this year). There's also a way to get e-mail updates, but you need to sign up for an account for that.
The second way is for me to just to post updates here at this blog page from my cell phone. I'm going to try to get some GPS tracks uploaded to motionbased.com, but that might be a little more tricky fom the road. If I do, I'll post the links here. They'll be up when it's over for sure...
That's all for now - I'd better get some sleep!
-CG
The first one is this chip they gave us to attach to our shoe and send e-mail and text message alerts to people who sign up for the service. It's pretty much to save people a phone call or text to say "I'm at the Lunch Stop" so they can meet up. Go to http://www.racedayalert.com/BPMS150/Default.aspx and enter rider 1198. It will show up as Mike Kane (my nom de plume for the MS150 this year). There's also a way to get e-mail updates, but you need to sign up for an account for that.
The second way is for me to just to post updates here at this blog page from my cell phone. I'm going to try to get some GPS tracks uploaded to motionbased.com, but that might be a little more tricky fom the road. If I do, I'll post the links here. They'll be up when it's over for sure...
That's all for now - I'd better get some sleep!
-CG
15 January 2008
Triptracker Updates
I'm growing fonder of a travel journal website called TripTracker.net. Be patient when loading up the trips, but it's pretty impressive how it integrates the data, photos and journal entries.
This link should take you directly to the 2007 trip:
http://triptracker.net/trip/2755/
This link should take you directly to the 2007 trip:
http://triptracker.net/trip/2755/
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