|
|
Thread Tools | Display Modes |
#1
|
|||
|
|||
Anybody ride the Nashoba Valley Fall Century today?
I was hoping to ride the full 100 to Hollis NH today. Thought I was
following all the cue arrows correctly, and did so at least up to Wayside Inn. Somehow, I wound up on a freshly-NVP-arrowed route that took me into Concord - not right! I realized the mistake and boogied back along 117 to pick up the road to Harvard, but the damage was done, and I got there later than I had expected. So I wound up riding the 75 instead. GARRR! I'm thinking maybe I got myself on the 25 mile route, but I didn't see a split indicator (the 75 vs. 100 split, by contrast, was very well signed). The sheet says "Left on Sudbury Rd (25 goes straight)". Did I miss that? I wound up riding 111 miles total, because my house is some distance from the starting point, but still I had wanted to do the Hollis route. Beautiful day for it in any case. Finally starting to come down from all the GU gels I had in Dunstable hours ago. I hate arrowed routes - I'd rather look at the scenery than look for arrows. Oh well, there's always next year. GARRR!! Dave |
Ads |
#2
|
|||
|
|||
Anybody ride the Nashoba Valley Fall Century today?
On Sat, 09 Sep 2006 21:12:05 -0400, Dave Stallard
wrote: I was hoping to ride the full 100 to Hollis NH today. Thought I was following all the cue arrows correctly, and did so at least up to Wayside Inn. Somehow, I wound up on a freshly-NVP-arrowed route that took me into Concord - not right! I realized the mistake and boogied back along 117 to pick up the road to Harvard, but the damage was done, and I got there later than I had expected. So I wound up riding the 75 instead. GARRR! I'm thinking maybe I got myself on the 25 mile route, but I didn't see a split indicator (the 75 vs. 100 split, by contrast, was very well signed). The sheet says "Left on Sudbury Rd (25 goes straight)". Did I miss that? I wound up riding 111 miles total, because my house is some distance from the starting point, but still I had wanted to do the Hollis route. Beautiful day for it in any case. Finally starting to come down from all the GU gels I had in Dunstable hours ago. I hate arrowed routes - I'd rather look at the scenery than look for arrows. Oh well, there's always next year. GARRR!! Dave I purchased a GPS and put in all the data for the routes I've done. This makes it much easier. (Although I did make one mistake one time and everyone went one way while my GPS told me to go another way.) -- Bob in CT |
#3
|
|||
|
|||
Anybody ride the Nashoba Valley Fall Century today?
Bob in CT wrote:
On Sat, 09 Sep 2006 21:12:05 -0400, Dave Stallard wrote: I was hoping to ride the full 100 to Hollis NH today. Thought I was following all the cue arrows correctly, and did so at least up to Wayside Inn. Somehow, I wound up on a freshly-NVP-arrowed route that took me into Concord - not right! I realized the mistake and boogied back along 117 to pick up the road to Harvard, but the damage was done, and I got there later than I had expected. So I wound up riding the 75 instead. GARRR! I'm thinking maybe I got myself on the 25 mile route, but I didn't see a split indicator (the 75 vs. 100 split, by contrast, was very well signed). The sheet says "Left on Sudbury Rd (25 goes straight)". Did I miss that? I wound up riding 111 miles total, because my house is some distance from the starting point, but still I had wanted to do the Hollis route. Beautiful day for it in any case. Finally starting to come down from all the GU gels I had in Dunstable hours ago. I hate arrowed routes - I'd rather look at the scenery than look for arrows. Oh well, there's always next year. GARRR!! Dave I purchased a GPS and put in all the data for the routes I've done. This makes it much easier. (Although I did make one mistake one time and everyone went one way while my GPS told me to go another way.) I've thought about that, but we're talking ~100s of waypoints to enter. That's a lot. Is there a way to enter them as street intersections: "X street and Y street in so-and-so"? Dave |
#4
|
|||
|
|||
Anybody ride the Nashoba Valley Fall Century today?
Dave Stallard wrote:
I purchased a GPS and put in all the data for the routes I've done. This makes it much easier. (Although I did make one mistake one time and everyone went one way while my GPS told me to go another way.) I've thought about that, but we're talking ~100s of waypoints to enter. That's a lot. Is there a way to enter them as street intersections: "X street and Y street in so-and-so"? You could since there are programs that will convert intersections to lat/long coordinates. But it sounds like much more work than just using mouse clicks on a map. Does your century ride really have hundreds of intersections where you need to turn? I just checked our club's three century routes and they have 32, 40, and 75 turns respectively. Once you've done a ride once you can store the tracklog on your PC and load it back into the GPS later. |
#5
|
|||
|
|||
Anybody ride the Nashoba Valley Fall Century today?
On Tue, 12 Sep 2006 00:02:40 -0400, Dave Stallard wrote:
Bob in CT wrote: On Sat, 09 Sep 2006 21:12:05 -0400, Dave Stallard wrote: [...got misdirected on a century ride, and ended up only riding 75...] [...try a GPS...] I've thought about that, but we're talking ~100s of waypoints to enter. That's a lot. Is there a way to enter them as street intersections: "X street and Y street in so-and-so"? You can lay out the route on gmaps-pedometer and download it as a set of waypoints. You might also be able to do that on routeslip. I'm not completely sure--I don't own a GPS, so I haven't paid much attention. gmaps lists the feature prominently, which is the only reason I know that it exists. -- Chris BeHanna ----== Posted via Newsfeeds.Com - Unlimited-Unrestricted-Secure Usenet News==---- http://www.newsfeeds.com The #1 Newsgroup Service in the World! 120,000+ Newsgroups ----= East and West-Coast Server Farms - Total Privacy via Encryption =---- |
Thread Tools | |
Display Modes | |
|
|
Similar Threads | ||||
Thread | Thread Starter | Forum | Replies | Last Post |
Anybody ride the Nashoba Valley Fall Century today? | Dave Stallard | Racing | 1 | September 10th 06 06:25 PM |
Coker Challenge - Durango Colorado - Never Been Done | trailguy | Unicycling | 53 | June 14th 05 05:33 PM |
Cool "Goal Setting" Idea | tylercox | Unicycling | 12 | January 2nd 05 07:27 PM |
22nd Annual Shenandoah Valley Century (Virginia) - corrected website | Shenandoah Valley Century | Rides | 0 | September 2nd 04 02:11 AM |
lacking in leg strength and stamina exercises? | Yuri Budilov | General | 18 | March 23rd 04 02:42 PM |