Do I need to bring my GPS?
How else are you going to Strava it? ;-)
Looks like a belting weekend for it. Enjoy the ride!
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Riding to St. Abbs this weekend
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Posted 12 years ago #
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Thanks PS - sorry you can't come.
Re GPS - I meant my Garmin Legend - which is great for navigation but no so good for measuring performance. I'd probably bring the phone anyway for backup navigation but won't keep the GPS on (the battery will go flat!!).
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@Uberuce - just take along a bungee cord and if the legs start to go subtly attach yourself to someone's seatpost.
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Thanks Amir
Don't worry about me - I'll be parking my bike outside various Lake District beer gardens this weekend. Perhaps not as athletic as cycling to St Abbs, but hopefully equally relaxing.
Posted 12 years ago # -
This is good too -
http://www.everytrail.com/mobile - iPhone + Android
Records and can take photos in app.
Posted 12 years ago # -
I'm doing a brewing course!
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Darkerside: "@Uberuce - just take along a bungee cord and if the legs start to go subtly attach yourself to someone's seatpost."
I'm sure that happens to me on hills but when I look there's never anyone there.
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@Tom @Amir, great glad you can both make it. We'll see you at Fisherrow about 20-30 past.
With Amir's GPS and Tom's CPS (Chimney Positioning System) we should be in no danger of getting lost on the backroads of darkest East Lothian.
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Well my Garmin 705 GPS is gubbed and due for a return to Garmin HQ for a bit fo TLC. I have a Garmin eTrek which doesn't have maps but does give me speed etc. I'll see about bringing my old paper map.
Kapers, is it just us two meeting at PY? Would it be easier for me to pop by your flat instead?
For those smartphone owners with limited batt life, there is this:
There appear to be lots of iPhone hard cases but not many for Samsung phones. :o(
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"I'm doing a brewing course!"
How to make friends and influence people.
Posted 12 years ago # -
@DaveC, I'll PM you. You may also inspect my non-i-phone phone case I use when cycling, it may be something that would work for you.
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Think I'm going to throw wind to the caution and sit this one out. Looks Kap's set a luvverly run, though, so if it turns out someone's left their socks at the lighthouse and I've bridged the gap before then, I'll come out to chum you retrieving it.
I'll do Porto-Velo's run on Sunday instead; they seem to centre around the mid-50's for distance, so the HP/Porty run adds an easy dozen.
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Next time Uberuce.
Garmin loaded with route (just in case - and extra weight to give me an excuse on the hills). Took long enough - Etrex are pants for downloading tracks - limit of 20 tracks of 500 - the original route has 17000 points - so required so filtering and splitting. #notuserfriendly
Posted 12 years ago # -
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Probably for the benefit of Marathon Runners!
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Yes, It's going to be hot. I think I'll wear arm warmers or a long sleeve top. Really looking forward to this. Of course if one of our number takes a dizzy turn there's a station in Dunbar :)
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"It's going to be hot. I think I'll wear arm warmers or a long sleeve top."
Or a woolly jumper?
It should be great. I have mixed views as to whether a bit of haar would be good, at least to start with. It was a nice tempearture this am for riding but it wasn't particularly pleasant - no view and rather clammy and moist.
Posted 12 years ago # -
Might actually be very pleasant -
Posted 12 years ago # -
Really fancy this ride. Maybe something to do with turning 50 yesterday. Did 45 miles on the new Cross bike yesterday so 105 on the road bike should be do-able (I hope!). I can meet somewhere in Musselburgh as I will be coming from Gorebridge. What time and where in Musselburgh?
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Numptie, I've been reconsidering my considered response and I have a plan: if we agree to chum each other home* if either gets bonked and has to drop out then we tick all three boxes of Not Stranded, Not Holding Up The Pros** and Secretly Being Glad Of The Break.
I'm game if you're game?
*I'm in Edinburgh and you're Gorebridge, but given the context of the ride, the last wee solo bit is pretty trivial
**Who are lovely and would gladly be held up rather than see us drop, but that doesn't mean I want them to have to.
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Sounds like a plan. Got the bike and some essentials ready this afternoon so I am ready to go once I have have had breakfast. A large bowl of porridge should provide fuel for the first couple of hours at least. So what time and where to meet?
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Numptie I am aiming to be at Fisherrow harbour at about 8.20am
Posted 12 years ago # -
Great, see you all at around 8:20 in the harbour car park.
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I'll be meeting at 8am beside either Pete's or Kap's...which one, chaps?
Posted 12 years ago # -
@Uberuce I've tweeted you my flat address and general description of which buzzer to press.
Remember the fluids folks!
And of course there are train stations at Dunbar and North Berwick if it's all too much for the return leg
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Might well see you guys - may be at the fishmonger about 8.30 ish.
Posted 12 years ago # -
Were it not for the burning sun, I would envy you all.
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Well, can't make it, but have a lovely ride. I may join the Portoveloans tomorrow...
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That was a bleedin' stoopid thing for me to have attempted. Things were going okay until mile 90, at which point the singlespeedness of wee blue floofy caught up with me and I started running out of juice. Ten miles later and I had to throw myself at the mercy of the pros, who luckily for me have lots of mercy, so the pace from then on was slower than I think they'd have liked, but was something I could handle.
Sorry/thank you, guys.
Rolled into my street with 120.73 miles on the clock.
Got my new distance record, first metric century, first Cycling Of The Beast and first imperial century.
The scenery and wee towns we rolled through were, in cahoots with the weather, ridiculously pretty. Arthur's Seat even had the decency to put on a Jean-Michelle Jarre styled smoke and light beams effect, as the sun picked out a shaft of haar nestling in a crook of the peak.
But I've finished eating sausages now, so photos and further write-up's just gunna have to wait. Shower and crash, oh yes.
Okay one photo, because I think it's ace and I didn't even twig to how apt it was to fit:
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