I've just found this on the 'About' page of FreeRoute:
This site fits satellite tracker derived positions onto roads to give a better estimate of the route actually taken and it is primarily designed for cycling events where participants are free to plan their own itinerary. The route shown and used for calculations is just an estimate based on the most likely route between each pair of tracking points, and might not correspond to the real world route taken.
I'm not much the wiser, apart from realising my earlier assumption was totally wrong. The best way would seem to compare his arrival time at the checkpoints with the scheduled time - he was 9 minutes late at CP45 but at least he is going downhill now. But the rain won't clear for ages, and with the twists and turns of the route he won't always have a favourable wind.
The next checkpoint is CP46 19:00 so that could be a moment of truth.
When the pestilence strikes from the East, go far and breathe the cold air deeply. Ignore the sage, stay not indoors. Ho Ri Zon 12th Century Chinese philosopher
LollyKat wrote: ... I'm not much the wiser, apart from realising my earlier assumption was totally wrong. The best way would seem to compare his arrival time at the checkpoints with the scheduled time - he was 9 minutes late at CP45 but at least he is going downhill now. But the rain won't clear for ages, and with the twists and turns of the route he won't always have a favourable wind.
It seems significant to me that not only was he some nine minutes down, but he'd also lost the twelve minutes he was up at the previous checkpoint. There others using twitter who are more in touch. Something like this is never going to be easy; it wouldn't be worth trying if it was easy. At our own more modest levels, most of us have experienced bad patches and I'm hoping he deals with this one.
Well he's passed CP46 19:00 on time so he's made up time and he's still on schedule.
When the pestilence strikes from the East, go far and breathe the cold air deeply. Ignore the sage, stay not indoors. Ho Ri Zon 12th Century Chinese philosopher
Astonishingly, it seems he passed CP46 at 1864, 6 minutes up on shcedule. The rain should ease off a bit but he's losing the wind assistance. A lot depends on whether they can do something about the neck problem - you have to admire his courage.
horizon wrote:Well he's passed CP46 19:00 on time so he's made up time and he's still on schedule.
If I'm reading it right, he's six minutes up on schedule at that CP and he's recovered the nine minutes he was down at CP45. Still a long way to go but he's got most of it behind him.
Lollycat beat me to it. You have to admire everything about it, including all the work put in by the support team.
"He’s made it from Cornwall to the Highlands but he has a neck issue and needs a neck brace to continue. Can anyone lend one for 24 hours? We are on the A9. Thanks!"
I don't think he going to break the record from here, perhaps he's just going for personal reasons. Other tweet looks like he's got a medic going out to see him.
It's taken me a long time to work this out, but if you click the box in the top right hand corner of the Free Route track, chose the fourth option - Open Street Map, then zoom right in, it gives all sorts of info including current road speed. You can also link to streetview for a view of the terrain with a scale.
1982john wrote:I don't think he going to break the record from here,
He's got 45 mins to cover the last 15 miles to make it to Inverness on schedule. He's not finished yet unless he's finished.
When the pestilence strikes from the East, go far and breathe the cold air deeply. Ignore the sage, stay not indoors. Ho Ri Zon 12th Century Chinese philosopher
thirdcrank wrote:It's taken me a long time to work this out, but if you click the box in the top right hand corner of the Free Route track, chose the fourth option - Open Street Map, then zoom right in, it gives all sorts of info including current road speed. You can also link to streetview for a view of the terrain with a scale.
I think you'll find that the same info comes up by clicking on the little purple reporting points in all the maps.
When the pestilence strikes from the East, go far and breathe the cold air deeply. Ignore the sage, stay not indoors. Ho Ri Zon 12th Century Chinese philosopher
