Speedy Ride for food-Olympic RoadRace Route-Sat 10th Sept

[Sapper]

Go to this link (link). That will show you how to get free (and perfectly legal) maps onto your Garmin.

As to the route, if you go to the link Ian provided, it will take you to Ride With GPS. Create an account on there (again free). Choose the option to copy to your account (or profile it may be called). View it in your profile (under profile>routes) and you'll see on the left hand side about half way up a tab marked export.

This is where it gets a bit tricky. You can choose a track which will just draw a line on the map on your Garmin for you to follow or a route which will actually beep at you and give instructions of when to turn etc. A route on a Garmin (certainly the 605) can only have 50 waypoints and if you start stripping them out, you can be left with some iffy maps.

I'd recommend the track option for now. You'll only need it if you lose the group and that shouldn't happen unless you intend being miles off the front.

Thanks Martin

Will have a play tomorrow if time allows

Adrian

 

[topcat1]

I'd recommend the track option for now. You'll only need it if you lose the group and that shouldn't happen unless you'r having a long whizzzzzz due to extended drinking of rum the nite before and your gps has fogged up coz of the heavy morning rain.

ftfy

 

[martint235]

ftfy

Ah yes, I'd forgotten you are the owner of the world's only non-waterproof GPS system!!!

 

[HaloJ]

Ah yes, I'd forgotten you are the owner of the world's only non-waterproof GPS system!!!

Still I was impressed that he beat us to Cambridge albeit by using one of the ugliest routes he could dream of.

 

[martint235]

Still I was impressed that he beat us to Cambridge albeit by using one of the ugliest routes he could dream of.

The A10 is very direct though! Not pleasant, not pretty, but very direct!

 

[Ess]

Hi there
How speedy do you need to be to do this ride?
Cheers
Ess

Once again we are doing the Olympic Road Race route. So successfully run by HaloJ in April.


Near flat as a pancake apart from a bit of a drag up Shere Road (but rewarded with a cracking long speedy descent to the lunch stop) & Box Hill, and we only do that once. (And it's really not that bad.)


It's a nice and speedy ride.

Starting & returning to/from Wellington Arch Hyde Park Corner. Leaving promptly at 8.30am. The route is 80 miles
Pub stop is the excellent Compasses in Gomshall, Surrey which has a cracking menu. Ask StuAff he will confirm.

Route here

Ianrauk
HaloJ
rb58
Martint235
StuAff
CrockOfGold (Richmond Park)
Fly
Telesonic99 (maybe)
Sittingduck (meet at Richmond Park)
Becs (Richmond Park)
Martok
Sapper
Mista Preston
Rich P
Redjedi (Richmond Park)
Topcat1

 

[ianrauk]

Hi there
How speedy do you need to be to do this ride?
Cheers
Ess

I would think minimum over the whole ride would be about 15mph avg with a rolling speed of about +/-20mph on the flats.

 

[Becs]

I would think minimum over the whole ride would be about 15mph avg with a rolling speed of about +/-20mph on the flats.

Er, I'm not sure I can manage that for 100 miles on the tourer. Does this mean I can't come?

 

[ianrauk]

Er, I'm not sure I can manage that for 100 miles on the tourer. Does this mean I can't come?

Stop talking nonsense. You will be fine, stop trying to talk yourself out of it.
It's a very flat route with a couple of hills.

 

[Sittingduck]

Stop talking nonsense. You will be fine, stop trying to talk yourself out of it.
It's a very flat route with a couple of hills.

Hmmm....

 

[Sapper]

Er, I'm not sure I can manage that for 100 miles on the tourer. Does this mean I can't come?

Becs, we can stay together.......

See you Saturday, i have never done a 100 before most is around 78 though at my own pace with a few breaks....

 

[ianrauk]

Welcomes along another new joinee to the ride. TrickyDicky

 

[Becs]

Stop talking nonsense. You will be fine, stop trying to talk yourself out of it.
It's a very flat route with a couple of hills.

I was just trying to make the point that the prescribed "speediness" can be off putting to people, myself included. What happened to the nice, inclusive, no one gets left behind ethos?

Realistically any ride I have done over 50 miles has been at around a 13mph average and I have done one 100 miler in my life; so you can see why this ride is somewhat daunting!

 

[martint235]

I was just trying to make the point that the prescribed "speediness" can be off putting to people, myself included. What happened to the nice, inclusive, no one gets left behind ethos?

Realistically any ride I have done over 50 miles has been at around a 13mph average and I have done one 100 miler in my life; so you can see why this ride is somewhat daunting!

We won't be leaving anyone behind. I'm bringing a newbie along from work who has never done a hundred before so if he turns out to be not so quick I'll be waiting at the back anyway.

And any SMRbtH that you've been on with me has been done at over 15mph average, even the one back from Southend that Arallsopp still hasn't forgiven me for.......

 

[Becs]

It wasn't with you Martin, pretty sure we limped back!