Wednesday night run around St Ives trying out the new Holux GPSport 245 bike computer, decided to upgrade the old logger as that’s all it does, this one does the same, but also logs the altitude and is also a bike computer (speed, distance, altitude etc). It’s battery also lasts a lot longer. Downloading is also simple, only downside I’ve found so far is that the charts can’t be copied, otherwise a real gem
Had a great ride 5 riders altogther, My (Matthew), Antony, John Andy and Mark. Extended the routes by coming back out of Austwick and up the twin track by the bridge then down and through the stream before the initial climb were we normally start, the new video is of the stream taken at the end of the ride.
The details of the route can be found here
Videos here
Tried this ride for the first time today (Matthew, Antony and Mark (his first outing)) completed the red run mostly twin track with a few short single tracks, this is really a beginners track but is good for first timers. The single tracks had a good mix of fast down hills with short technical and muddy sections.
Sorry no GPS, forgot to charge it.
What a weekend!! 2 days biking in the Lakes absolutly shattered but brilliant, the map below is of the Saturday run GPS battery ran flat so couldn’t record the second day but that was over 14 miles
18.52 mi (7.87 mi uphill, 8.41 mi downhill, 2.12 mi flat)
3248 ft total ascent (3245 ft descent) – 9.2 % uphill grade, 8.6 % downhill grade
5:31:41 total time (4:14:07 moving, 1:17:34 stopped)
0:13:42 pace (4.4 mph average speed, 24.9 mph max speed)
18.201 difficulty, 57.674 effort
6.80 mi (2.72 mi uphill, 2.69 mi downhill, 1.37 mi flat)
787 ft total ascent (787 ft descent) – 5.8 % uphill grade, 5.7 % downhill grade
1:38:01 total time (1:22:52 moving, 0:15:09 stopped)
0:12:10 pace (4.9 mph average speed, 27.3 mph max speed)
3.491 difficulty, 10.719 effort
Went on a little 20 mile ride with Andy, quite challeging for me but just a warm up for Andy, enjoyed it though especially as I was on my new bike (gone full suspension) and boy does it make a difference feeling more relaxed on the down hills
22.48 mi (10.09 mi uphill, 9.99 mi downhill, 2.40 mi flat)
3012 ft total ascent (3003 ft descent) – 6.0 % uphill grade, 5.8 % downhill grade
4:17:00 total time (4:13:40 moving, 0:03:20 stopped)
0:11:15 pace (5.3 mph average speed, 29.5 mph max speed)
13.605 difficulty, 44.336 effort
30.37 mi (11.68 mi uphill, 13.67 mi downhill, 4.39 mi flat)
4068 ft total ascent (4268 ft descent) – 7.7 % uphill grade, 6.3 % downhill grade
7:31:40 total time (5:21:41 moving, 2:09:59 stopped)
0:10:34 pace (5.7 mph average speed, 43.6 mph max speed)
22.160 difficulty, 64.462 effort
Julie John and myself decided to do a local run, set of from Thornton at 9:30 using the back roads towards Cullingworth using the Great Northern trail, than to Harden to St Ives and back.
Weather was brilliant can beleive it’s mid October
Anyway, here’s the map and stats
Matthew
26.39 mi (9.84 mi uphill, 10.55 mi downhill, 5.61 mi flat)
2598 ft total ascent (2605 ft descent) – 6.1 % uphill grade, 5.2 % downhill grade
4:45:57 total time (4:07:39 moving, 0:38:18 stopped)
0:09:21 pace (6.4 mph average speed, 27.1 mph max speed)
12.412 difficulty, 38.307 effort
It was wet it was muddy but we still went out and as promised here is the map
7.22 mi (2.83 mi uphill, 2.82 mi downhill, 1.56 mi flat)
862 ft total ascent (864 ft descent) – 6.6 % uphill grade, 6.6 % downhill grade
1:40:35 total time (1:27:29 moving, 0:13:06 stopped)
0:12:05 pace (5.0 mph average speed, 21.1 mph max speed)
4.060 difficulty, 12.344 effort