The Wiggle No Excuses Sportive

I survived. Next time I intend to thrive..

All done on my Genesis Skyline fixer

The London To Cambridge Bike Route

The Breakthrough Breast Cancer London to Cambridge bike ride runs annually. This year it's the 24 July.




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and the profile is

Routes are a pain

I went out on Saturday with a preprogrammed course and GOT HORRIBLY LOST! In a good way, but not.

The problem, it seems, is that gmaptogpx draws too straight a line between points. This can be seen by

1. Draw a route on Google Maps
2. Create a GPX using GMapToGPX
3. Upload the GPX to maptogps

It can be seen here that the route is "off"....

 To fix this

1. Draw a route in Google Maps
2. Create a GPX using gpsvisualizer (copying the URL of the google maps from the "link" window into the box
3. Remember to select "Add DEM Elevation Data"

The equvalent map now looks like this: 

This is a much better fit.

Now use gpsies to convert to a .crs and import to the Garmin.