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Sunrise Beach, TX Training Ride July 20, 2008Leave a comment Ever have one of those days where you just want to hop on the bike and go as far and as fast as your legs can carry you? This was one of those days by a factor of 10!! I needed an attitude adjustment bad and riding the bike hard works like a champ! My dad owns a small plane and we were going to take it flying from Sunrise Beach to Llano, TX so the natural thing for me to do was pedal over, fly and pedal back. Nice solid ride out HWY 71, just south of Marble Falls, up to Sunrise Beach, back to Marble Falls through Horseshoe Bay. Some hills to be had and I was cranking along like I haven't in a long time. At one point I hit 39 mph just as my dad passed me on his motorcycle. Great workout through I wasn't on my touring bike. Light weight and fast! HWY 71 has a great shoulder beginning just past the turn off to Marble Falls on HWY 281. It was a bit more challenging on FM 2147 through Horseshoe Bay. No shoulder and lots of traffic headed to Marble Falls. I took a short break at the Starbucks overlooking the lake and then the back road on FM 2147 to CR 404. Very pleasant ride, non-existent traffic and SHADE!! It was a bit of a scorcher that day. I think the temperature peaked out near 100 degrees. Hydrate, hydrate, hydrate... On a separate note, I thought I would give an explanation of how I will be loading the GPS data on the website so that folks can track my journey across the US. In order for me to test the blog capability of this website, I have added a couple of training rides that I captured using my Garmin Edge 705. The two that I have added to the site were conducted in July, a couple of weeks after I purchased the GPS. The Edge has the capability of capturing the route, in addition to data on heart rate, elevation, distance, cadence, etc... I transfer this data to my IBM laptop using a USB connection and upload it to a program called Garmin Training Center. The data is saved as a *.tcx file. The file is usually around 20-30MB. In order to display my route on Google Earth, I have to convert the file to a *.kml file. This file is then up-linked to the server that supports my website. You must have Google Earth installed on your computer (link is on the website) so that you can open this *.kml file and it will overlay on the map. Starting on Wednesday the 13th, I will start uploading my route each day and number them Day 1, Day 2, Day 3, etc... This way anyone that cares to track me on the site, will have a excellent plot of my route for that day. In addition, I plan on having either a video, audio, or text blog to coincide with the route. As with all things, there will be bugs and problems to overcome, but isn't that what testing is all about? Flight test or otherwise, you have to try the system in it's intended environment! Please email me if you have any comments or questions. Thanks, John 0 Comments Add a comment: |
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