Backroads does an amazing job, organizing the trips and bringing terrific hosts together with great hotels and restaurants. The van that's available during the passes you occasionally, checking in to see if you need help. I think for the first time in my entire life, I did not take advantage of any special assistance at all in an athletic endeavor. (In high school, I would have been the first person in the van).*
Throughout the week, I used my iPhone to keep track of my location. I got an app called Gaia GPS (also available on Android) that let's you track your activity on terrain maps. And so each day, I was able log our rides. Gaia GPS keeps track of all the data - location, climb and speed, as well as generating GPX trails.
The GPS trail for one of our rides looked like this:
The GPS files for our rides are all here. You can actually load them into Google Earth and then follow your own rides around, if you want. Just click on the link to download the file:
Title: Day 2
Date: 10/4/10 0:33:35 PDT
Distance: 65.61 km
Time: 04:36:31
Average Speed: 14.2 km/h
Max Speed: 69.5 km/h
Ascent: 835.02 m
Min/Max Altitude: 26.12 m, 312.90 m
Started: 10/4/10 0:33:39 PDT - (40.92389, 17.27645)
Ended: 10/4/10 6:30:03 PDT - (40.92425, 17.27672)
Title: Day 3 AM
Date: 10/4/10 8:47:51 PDT
Distance: 36.02 km
Time: 02:44:46
Average Speed: 13.1 km/h
Max Speed: 52.3 km/h
Ascent: 576.66 m
Min/Max Altitude: 69.70 m, 412.38 m
Started: 10/5/10 0:23:36 PDT - (40.92388, 17.27658)
Ended: 10/5/10 3:08:22 PDT - (40.76838, 17.36097)
Title: Day 3 Afternoon
Date: 10/5/10 5:33:49 PDT
Distance: 29.12 km
Time: 02:23:26
Average Speed: 12.2 km/h
Max Speed: 48.9 km/h
Ascent: 376.62 m
Min/Max Altitude: 363.11 m, 454.53 m
Started: 10/5/10 5:34:02 PDT - (40.76839, 17.36098)
Ended: 10/5/10 7:57:28 PDT - (40.67610, 17.33039)
Title: Day 4 Morning
Date: 10/6/10 0:42:43 PDT
Distance: 18.19 km
Time: 00:59:07
Average Speed: 18.5 km/h
Max Speed: 47.4 km/h
Ascent: 132.76 m
Min/Max Altitude: 364.97 m, 456.72 m
Started: 10/6/10 0:42:54 PDT - (40.68567, 17.30907)
Ended: 10/6/10 1:42:01 PDT - (40.78269, 17.23893)
Title: Day 4 Afternoon
Date: 10/6/10 3:03:44 PDT
Distance: 40.18 km
Time: 02:25:19
Average Speed: 16.6 km/h
Max Speed: 54.6 km/h
Ascent: 263.53 m
Min/Max Altitude: 0.19 m, 419.32 m
Started: 10/6/10 4:22:29 PDT - (40.78274, 17.23894)
Ended: 10/6/10 6:47:48 PDT - (40.85170, 17.42715)
Title: Day 5 Morning
Date: 10/6/10 23:58:22 PDT
Distance: 40.39 km
Time: 02:56:59
Average Speed: 13.7 km/h
Max Speed: 56.8 km/h
Ascent: 657.28 m
Min/Max Altitude: 3.02 m, 401.66 m
Started: 10/6/10 23:58:29 PDT - (40.85098, 17.42543)
Ended: 10/7/10 2:55:28 PDT - (40.73247, 17.57422)
Title: Day 5 Afternoon
Date: 10/7/10 2:56:02 PDT
Distance: 23.64 km
Time: 01:18:48
Average Speed: 18.0 km/h
Max Speed: 38.8 km/h
Ascent: 82.01 m
Min/Max Altitude: 15.51 m, 213.50 m
Started: 10/7/10 4:46:20 PDT - (40.73258, 17.57411)
Ended: 10/7/10 6:05:08 PDT - (40.85120, 17.42541)
Title: Day 6 Coastal Loop
Date: 10/7/10 22:55:14 PDT
Distance: 25.19 km
Time: 01:28:19
Average Speed: 17.1 km/h
Max Speed: 32.6 km/h
Ascent: 159.16 m
Min/Max Altitude: 2.97 m, 57.11 m
Started: 10/7/10 23:01:33 PDT - (40.85102, 17.42533)
Ended: 10/8/10 0:29:52 PDT - (40.85128, 17.42691)
Overall, the trip was one of the best I've been on - good riding, great food, great guides and hotels. The other folks on the trip were also terrific an impressive group of very accomplished people. We'll definitely be taking another Backroads trip in the future.
*Quitting your job that involves flying 500,000 miles a year and starting to bike to all your meetings instead really helps. As I live in Silicon Valley, everything is just a few miles apart. I get about 12-15 hours of biking in every week now - just going to meetings.
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