Sir Ridesalot wrote:
On Thursday, August 15, 2019 at 12:40:56 AM UTC-4, news18 wrote:
On Wed, 14 Aug 2019 21:25:03 -0700, Sir Ridesalot wrote:

On Wednesday, August 14, 2019 at 11:58:23 PM UTC-4, Joy Beeson wrote:
On Wed, 14 Aug 2019 05:34:51 +0700, John B.
wrote:

A power meter is a vital accessory for the elderly bicycle enthusiast
as how else can he brag about his accomplishments - "I averaged 12
mph for two hours last Sunday".

Write down starting time in notebook. Write down finishing time in
notebook. Go to Google Maps, ask for directions along your chosen
route. Write down distance.

Apply third-grade math.

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Joy Beeson joy beeson at comcast dot net http://wlweather.net/PAGEJOY/

Asking for BICYCLING directions on Google Maps can often have you riding
WAY out of your way if you follow them.

Gogle mpas are so car orientated. There is always a (or more)better
bicycle route.

When I use Google Maps to
calculate the distance on a planned ride I right click on the map at
where I'm starting from and then add markers at various points alone the
route I plan to ride.

Otherwise I find that Google Maps will often
deviate from the shortest route to take a route that uses a rail-trail
or other off-road facility and those deviations can add many miles to a
route.

Over here, it frequently will have you travelling 1,000 miles on sealed
roads as opposed to 10miles on a gravel road.

When I look a Google Maps for routes I'm going to bicycle on I click the
bicycle icon on the menu. That icon then gives a suggested route but as I
said before those routes often require quite a deviation from the
shortest route because Google Maps would have you ride every trail nearby
or on the route even if the trail is miles out of your way. I've had many
instances where Google Maps would have me ride miles up to a trail that
the required me ride miles back down to the road I was riding on in the
first place. That is the road I was on ran nearly straight but the route
to the trail, the trail and the route back to the road I was on would be
a huge flattened inverted "U". That's why I started to plot my own route
on the Google Map I used for planning. I find that the distances given on
my plots on Google Maps are pretty accurate.

Cheers


Try RideWithGPS. Better than google map for plotting bike rides. You can
choose to stick to the road or a bike path. If you have a smart phone you
can also download the ride to your phone so no data costs if you want to
follow it. Our club uses it to host our rides and we’ve had good results.


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duane