2012-06-30 Sat/Sun - Dunwich Dynamo DD20

Try the Ordance Survey and use Chap Nav.

Loved the Chap Nav.

Last slightly longer than the battery life of a typical Garmin.

GPS is not an alternative to planning but it is useful when you haven't had time to plan. There really is no substitute to knowing where you're going, and a sense of direction is not really a sense, it's something that is acquired by paying attention to where you are and what's around.

There's a link to the 2011 route on the Southwark Cyclist's Dun Run page. It links here

https://dl.dropbox.com/u/2096259/Rides/Dunwich%20Dynamo%202011.gpx

Here is a gpx file http://sdrv.ms/LhTYQX

Same as 2011 then? Yep, obv. Sible Hedingham was an oasis of light and soup.

51.5 miles in for those with simple computers. Felt sorry for the bloke last year who asked when the feed stop was coming up.. 10 miles past it.

Felt sorry for the bloke last year who asked when the feed stop was coming up.. 10 miles past it.

This made me chuckle. Chap Nav took me way past the feed stop where I was supposed to meet my brother. Fortunately I had food with me so waited for him further up the line and even had time for a snooze :-).

paying attention to where you are and what's around.

whistles

Please can everyone stop talking about gpx/garmin. It's fucking boring. There is a route sheet available for £1, which probably goes towards some relatively good cause. It includes relevant details, such as the route, and the location of the feed stop.

Perhaps it's escaped the attention of some, but DD is a mass ride, so you probably won't even need to look at the route sheet, or a garmin, because there will most likely be a steady stream of hi-viz and lycra ahead of you following some smart alec that knows the route. If you are by yourself at some point, you can consider yourself lucky.

If you do get lost, you should panic for at least 10 minutes, bang on the door of the nearest house and ask what county you are in and where you need to go. I'm sure they'll understand.

Ha. But how will you log your Strava time without a Garmin???

i/android phone?

How does one ride a bike without knowing ones own heart rate?

Right, at least this way I can maintain a constant pace rather than stopping every 10 minutes to check my pulse. FFS, why do people not understand.

I can't work their route sheet and I only ever use route directions.

I've failed to do my own in any kind of timely fashion again though

list of items people that need to htfu use:

1. hr monitors
   
2. food in gel form
   3.
   

You know what, spybot, you're just a navigationist. You disgust me.

list of the most essential items in the world:

1. hr monitors
   
2. food in gel form
   3.leg shaving equipment
   
   

ftfy

haha!

1. beard comb?
   

People who have never raced:

1. Apolloxl
   
   
   

:p

Mmm beard combs. The gods themselves designed such an item and modelled it on their own lives.

I trimmed it for the interview yesterday, but not before having a 20 minute session combing the shit out of it.

It felt like borderline masturbation

Ha. But how will you log your Strava time without a Garmin???

This is keeping me up at night currently. If it ain't on Strava, it didn't happen...

This is almost literally true for me as I have a memory of around five minutes. By the time I've got home and had a shower I'll forget I ever did the Dynamo.

There is no point on the entire route where you won't see other people knowing where they're going. Wouldn't bother with a route sheet even.

Save the quid for an extra Mars bar at the cafe

This is keeping me up at night currently. If it ain't on Strava, it didn't happen...

This is almost literally true for me as I have a memory of around five minutes. By the time I've got home and had a shower I'll forget I ever did the Dynamo.

I ate a whole pizza when I got in last year - can't even remember doing that.

Same as 2011 then? Yep, obv. Sible Hedingham was an oasis of light and soup.

51.5 miles in for those with simple computers. Felt sorry for the bloke last year who asked when the feed stop was coming up.. 10 miles past it.

That might have been me! We were stopped by the roadside and asked some passing riders. It was no problem though as we had a stove and food with us, so stopped in one of those amazing bus shelters, set up and had a good brew going on as the sun rose.

I asked when the food stop was coming up, only I had a Garmin not a simple computer ha ha!