Archive for March, 2007
Friday, March 30th, 2007
GPS Trace for Training Run
Here’s the GPS trace from last weekends run - I’ve not managed to get the data working on an embedded map yet, but I’m getting there so keep an eye open. Click on the image to see the large version.
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Wednesday, March 28th, 2007
To Dartmoor, and back
As I sit here in my plush M&S dressing gown, red wine in one hand, laptop in the other and Northanger Abbey on the TV, I’m hardly the picture of a motorbike adventurer; facing the world with only 600cc and a toothbrush.
Friday night saw me gripping the sides of my toilet in horror as my […]
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Monday, March 26th, 2007
Dartmoor or bust
As dawn spread over the Little Chef on the A3 Southbound just beyond the M25 three bikes were parked. Laden down with kit to make Charlie and Ewan gulp… Well that was the plan. However in reality I’m amazed we THE JTR team made the trip at all.
Firstly a sudden stomach bug laid Matthew […]
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Wednesday, March 21st, 2007
Ready for the weekend
The lists are made, we’ve agreed who’s carrying what, and we’ve looked at the weather forecast. We’re ready for the weekend. We’ve deliberatly chosen to do this long run on a weekend when we have to finish work on the Friday, leave for the weekend and then go back to work on the Monday - […]
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Sunday, March 11th, 2007
Tracking the route
I’ve been playing with a few methods of tracking our route and displaying it on the site whilst we’re on our trip.
Couple of reasons for doing this, but mainly it’s there to show our progress, and if anything goes wrong, where we were at the last upload.
I’m working on a way of pulling out the […]
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Thursday, March 8th, 2007
First Training Run
It’s coming up fast - our first training run. We’re heading down to Dartmoor to try our hand at ‘long distance‘ riding with rough camping.
The aim this time is to see what the dynamic between the three of us is like. We’ve ridden with each other before but not actually all three of us together, […]
