I received the handlebar mount for my GPS yesterday and today got to test it out. It turns out my daily route is 10.1 miles. After a quick look around the web I found the site Everytrail.com that lets you upload your trip’s GPX file gives you some snazzy info about the speed and elevation changes over the journey all on top of a google map. I can even embed it here:
Week Day Cycle
Widget powered by EveryTrail: GPS Geotagging
Just slide the arrow along the bar and you can see me speeding down Mousehole Lane and grinding slowly up Burgess Road 
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DOH! Does’t work in Livejournal, click through to my wordpress site to see it in action
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Ha ha, that’s ace that is.
I like that one
So cycling through Southampton Common is a downhill affair, but I’m guessing it was a route full of obstacles out walking their dogs so you couldn’t maintain a constant speed?
Must take GPS on holiday to Chamonix and produce some track logs…
Oh yeah, your link to Everytrail.com is wrong…
Cheer’s man, all fixed
Given the route is a loop the vertical up / down figures should be the same. I think they’re different because the GPS samples every 10 seconds or so and the difference is a side effect of that
Well, you’ve inspired me Gaz, so I’ve just signed myself up for a bike and accessories on the ‘Cycle to work’ scheme at work. Don’t think I’ll be joining the ‘100 klicks a day in snug shorts’ brigade any time soon, but it’s a start.
that is utterly bizarre.
geekprops
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