AAAAAAAAAND THEY’RE OFF!!!

July 9th, 2011 by GearMan No comments »

We’ve got a great group of riders tearing their way along the highways and byways of the Massachusetts and New Hampshire seacoasts on their way to Wynwood Hotel and Suites located right at the traffic circle in Portsmouth, almost within sight of the Maine border. I’m obviously already here, because if texting while driving is wrong, then updating a website while driving would be even worse, so I wouldn’t do it.  Safety first! I’ll be adding more details later in the day, so check back  often.

In the meantime, I have a truck full o’ stuff that needs to find it’s way outdoors before the riders all arrive.
GearMan

And so it begins

July 9th, 2011 by admin No comments »

It’s 6:00 am. The weather is beautiful.

It’s on!

Thank all of you for your support. We are underway.

Maps

July 6th, 2011 by admin No comments »

All the maps are finished and are ready for downloading.

This year, I used RideWithGPS which is built using Google Maps. I tried to be as careful as possible, but there are undoubtedly errors. Road markings and nightly updates take priority over any of these maps. From the RideWithGPS site, you can download various files in formats that can be imported into GPS and Google Earth devices and applications as well as cue sheets and profile elevations.

From these maps, a couple of statistics:

2-day distance: 132.7 miles
2-day elevation gain: 4139 feet
Longest day: Day 1 @ 70.8 miles

7-day distance: 533.5 miles
7-day elevation gain: 24,384 feet
Longest day: Day 4 @ 97.8 miles

To see the maps at any time, click the “2011” link at the upper left.

Let me know if there is any other useful information you’d like to have.

Maps : Day 7

July 6th, 2011 by admin No comments »

Day 7 : Friday July 15, 2011

The Day 7 map is ready for download. All maps are available at the ”
“2001″ link on the upper left.

Maps : Day 6

July 6th, 2011 by admin No comments »

Day 6 : Thursday July 14, 2011

The Day 6 map is ready for download. All maps are available at the ”
“2001″ link on the upper left.

Maps : Day 5

July 6th, 2011 by admin No comments »

Day 5 : Wednesday July 13, 2011

The Day 5 map is ready for download. All maps are available at the ”
“2001″ link on the upper left.

Maps : Day 4

July 6th, 2011 by admin No comments »

Day 4 : Tuesday July 12, 2011

The Day 4 map. This is complete and correct. Feel free to download. As always, all maps are available from the “2011″ link at the upper left.

Maps : Day 3

July 6th, 2011 by admin No comments »

Day 3 : Monday July 11, 2011

The Day 3 map. This is complete and correct. Feel free to download whatever data you need.

As always, the maps are available by clicking the “2011″ link at the upper left.

Maps : Day 2

July 6th, 2011 by admin No comments »

Day 2 : Sunday July 10, 2011

The Day 2 map.

The map is complete and ready for use.

Maps : Day 1

July 6th, 2011 by admin 1 comment »

UPDATE: I repositioned this is the article list so that the maps would appear together. This is the same as the June post.

Day 1 : Saturday July 9, 2011

The Day 1 map.

At long last, I’m starting to get the maps in order. Look at the upper left corner of the site, and you’ll see a tab that says “2011′. Click that and you will have access to the maps.

I’m trying to provide a bunch of different ways of providing them to you. One interesting new site is called Ride With GPS, built with the Google mapping API. Pretty slick. So I’ll provide that along with the regular DeLorme Topo USA maps. Let me know which are most useful.

So here most of the map for Day 1 using Ride with GPS. The route is final and ready for use.