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Egham and Windsor Great Park training ride
I just did a training ride in Windsor Great park. I reckon I did the most hill climbing you can do in 1 hour in this area without backtracking/covering the same ground twice. 11.5 miles in total – not bad for a work night with the light rapidly fading.
Since (and this isn’t always the case using the GPS) the recordings of total ascent and descent came out almost the same on this trip I think the gradient graph is broadly right – 1568ft of climbing in total. Here is the graph from Everytrail showing speed and gradient. A few blips – for example, I don’t think I got up to 50mph..
And here is the route:
View larger version at EveryTrail
Hayling Island to Petersfield bike ride and first try of EveryTrail
I’ve just completed my first training ride in preparation for my Atlas trip. With the help of my iPhone I found a rather nice route from Hayling Island to Petersfield and back. You can’t easily avoid the busy main road off Hayling or the centre of Havant but once I’d escaped Havant it was a lovely ride – undulating but with only one really tough climb – crossing the South Downs near South Harting on the way back.
I used the ride to try out a couple of route mapping apps on my iPhone. First up Trails Lite – this was working fine – but the free version stops after 5 minutes. So on to Everytrail for the rest of the route. It worked really well – I used it both to map my route and also to frequently stop and plan my next step as I was making it up as I went along. It’s easy to use – with all the features I needed easy to find.
The only major issue was with battery life (not the fault of EveryTrail!) – my phone died 2/3 of the way through – I’d expected this issue with iPhone trip mapping – as it stands it’ll be great for mapping training rides, but isn’t going to be up to anything longer. There are possible solutions to this (there are external extra battery devices, or upgrade to iPhone 4!) but that’s for another day.
Anyway – the EveryTrail route is below. I edited it on the web after to add the missing data. As you can see I totaled 42 miles – a good start to my training…
Hayling Island to Petersfield loop
Note that you can click on the red dots to see photos I took at those points. Or go to the EveryTrail site to see a larger/interactive version.
