Bang!
Well after my last post on the July150 things started with a bang on Tuesday when along with Carrie “NotTheWowy” I racked up 53.3 miles. Wow, a third of the way there in one ride. We left Ashington at lunchtime and I let Carrie take the lead and show me some of the roads she rides on her club rides, great roads they are too, although some have far too many ‘ups’ to be nice.
We stopped for refreshments in Ponteland before heading off again at which point Carrie found a lone cyclist and picked him up, we tagged alongside for a good few miles chatting and finally parted ways with an invitation from Carrie for him to look out for their club rides. He seemed to enjoy our company so he may take her up on that.
Carrie kept saying “should I show you this road” and I’d say “yes” only to find a bloody hill in the middle of it, you’d think I’d have learnt after the first couple of times but nope, says she hates hills but finds them easy enough!!
Was an excellent day and one I’d do again.
I did find out how much better the iPhone 3GS battery is compared to my 3G, I went through phone battery, backup battery and Carrie’s backup battery on the journey whole Carrie was still only half way through her phone battery, so still back to the drawing board for a power supply to last a full journey, however if I’d been out on my own I wouldn’t have gone as far so it would have lasted.
Cycle: 53.3 miles, Time: 4:15:08, Avg Speed: 12.5 mph, Max Speed: 29.1 mph, Min Altitude: 0 ft, Max Altitude: 678 ft
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Added a screenshot of the route but have no idea how it will look on here :-)
July 14th, 2010 at 23:22
Well done you! Was wondering when a blog would be posted about it…I guess your fingers were too tired yesterday…I seem to remember than my fingers are always tired after cycling due to hanging onto the handlebars for dear life! :) The screenshot worked…made me feel tired again as it looks a LONG way…lucky really as I’m going to sleep. Night!
July 15th, 2010 at 12:04
Nice ride. I found a solar phone backup battery thingy on http://www.dealextreme.com – the idea is that it plugs into the phone, so you don’t actually have to turn the phone off and lose any GPS tracks. They’re sent from the land of the rising sun at knock-off prices. Sh*te quality but very cheap, I’ve ordered one for my phone so I’ll let you know how it is if it ever arrives!
July 15th, 2010 at 15:17
Went to post at the nighttime Andrew but iPhone wouldn’t connect to blog for some reason.
yeah Phill, this is the one I have http://tinyurl.com/2fqxed6 fits nicely on the iPhone, just the solar panel is on the back, which is weird, will have to make sure phone is upside down next time :D