100 Miles Completed (Proper)
Well I’ve only gone and bloody done it, 100 leisure miles completed. “Aboot time!” I hear some of you say and yeah you’re right. At the rate I’ve gone this weekend I could have been done ages ago. It was just finding the time that did for me.
Today I decided to start off with the cycle route I did with Bev yesterday but carry on instead of turning around and coming home the same way. 33.12 miles today at an average of 12.x mph, which I’m impressed with considering some of the bits along the coast are tracks across fields or gravel/stone pathways and the tourer wasn’t built to handle those at speed so it was slowly slowly over those. Beginning to wonder why I’ve not been that way before, it’s such a lovely place to cycle, even allowing for the shitty tracks (literally shitty when the cows have been past).
The iPhone lasted the full journey this time, the solar charger not doing a job at all, dodgy connection to the phone. However I arrived home to find my new waste of money, sorry solar charger/batter pack had been delivered. This one fits into the bottom of the iPhone and is shaped to look like an extension to the phone. One downfall is the solar panel being on the back, great I suppose for charging while you’re making a call but means the iPhone will be face down if I need the solar capability on the bike. I’m hoping the power in the battery pack will be enough to keep the phone going through any journey though providing I remember to charge before going out. :-)
Solar Charger
Anyway off to sleep, early start tomorrow, will update with pics and anything I’ve forgotten after work :-)
June 28th, 2010 at 23:12
Well done on completing the 100…you going to do the 150 next month? ;-)
June 29th, 2010 at 08:44
Brilliant work!
I’m going to have a similar issue on Sunday with the Mcr-Blackpool, my phone battery won’t hack it all the way. Looking for a (super fast delivery) battery boost/charger as I can’t unplug the battery without having to concatenate 2 tracks into MapMyRide, which as far as I can tell is impossible.
I thought it was just a bike ride, but it’s a technical challenge too!
But – back to the point – well done, so chuffed so many have completed the #June100 :)
June 29th, 2010 at 08:57
I have a cheapo back up battery and that and the Iphone on full charge will last well over 70 miles.
June 29th, 2010 at 14:41
Well I just plugged in the new solar charger/battery backup and it charged my phone from 80% to full in 15mins or so. Been playing with some of the apps and it’s still at 100% so that’s a good start. First solar charger cost me £9 inc postage, thought I better splash out a little more on the next one so spent £10.23 this time :) Will edit and stick a pic in of how neatly it fits on the iPhone, even though it’s a bit larger than I thought :)
Andrew: Yup, going for the 150 next month :)
Phill: sure is a technical challenge, hope you get sorted
Carrie: that’s a decent amount of time for it to last