Nordschleife Hill GPX File (Indoor Training) Merry Xmas

[Manc33]

Driving around this racetrack on Need For Speed (for many years) I realized actually riding along it was a far tougher ride than I anticipated!

It's a bit of a Christmas present... but why?

Because it takes a bit of messing around to plot this as a route - because it's a racetrack and thus, it's not a road you can just go plot a route around on sites like cycle.travel, in fact the road doesn't even exist on there as a place you can put a route. It's there but there's no way to plot a route along it. Bicycles aren't allowed on it and it's just not a road, but it certainly is hilly if you pick the correct section to cycle along.

This starts off with a hilly part and flattens out, but has other hills thrown in after that. The start elevates 900ft in 3 miles. I'll be riding this on my indoor trainer on Christmas day in the evening, to try to burn off some calories from my Christmas dinner, at least that's the plan. Those goose fat roast potatoes are the biggest offender.

Here's the elevation profile:



Here's the GPX file, it's about 8 miles, which isn't far, but this is not an easy ride. Based on my last (and only) ride along here I burned 603 calories, so it's going to be about the same for anyone else doing it.

https://pastebin.com/raw/FSdgcCZJ

Just copy all of the the above text from the link and paste into a Notepad txt file, then rename it as a ".gpx" file and put it in your Garmin "Newfiles" folder. I don't know how that might work on a Wahoo but if you're into this you'll work it out... and Merry Christmas.

[EdT]

Here is the longer "Rad am Ring" route:
https://www.bergfex.de/sommer/rheinland ... d-am-ring/

[Manc33]

Here is the longer "Rad am Ring" route:
https://www.bergfex.de/sommer/rheinland ... d-am-ring/

I did start off with the full circuit, going clockwise starting where the race cars start (50.33845, 6.94954) but realized it's downhill for the first ~4.9 miles. I want to be continually burning calories and knew the 2nd half was tough, so I separated it off to just the hill part.

The full circuit is like this:

[EdT]

The 24 hour Rad am Ring race must be incredibly hard with that 17% gradient every circuit.

[Paulatic]

Because it takes a bit of messing around to plot this as a route - because it's a racetrack and thus, it's not a road you can just go plot a route around on sites like cycle.travel, in fact the road doesn't even exist on there as a place you can put a route. It's there but there's no way to plot a route along it.

Not entirely true especially if you have MapOut on IOS.
Example a gpx route of Cheltenham racecourse in less than a minute

[Manc33]

I did it and thrashed my last time

Not sure why 603 cals were burned for the October ride and only 577 cals tonight. Maybe because I was on the bike for over 16 mins more the first ride? Tonight the "CBPH" (Calories Burned Per Hour) was way more.

I didn't think time mattered and physics is physics? I mean I thought if a ride took 1 hour or 2 hours, it takes the same energy for the same ride?

It's there but there's no way to plot a route along it.

Not entirely true especially if you have MapOut on IOS.

It's times like this I won't call you guys Apple fanboys

When I plotted Nürburgring Nordschleife I did it in Google Earth as a path, saved as a KML, then used this to convert that to GPX: https://starpath.com/gpx/

It's a good job that exists because I don't know of any offline software that can convert from KML to GPX. I only have to do this once in a blue moon but it would be nice to have something offline that can do it with a batch file.

EDIT: Doh! GPSbabel can do it... with this batch file...

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@echo off

:: Convert all KML files to GPX files...
for %%f in (*.kml) do (
    gpsbabel -i kml -f "%%f" -o gpx -F "%CD%\%%~nf.gpx"
)

:: Remove elevation tags from all GPX files...
start /wait /min Powershell.exe -NoProfile -ExecutionPolicy Bypass -Command "gci *.gpx | foreach { (cat $_.FullName | ? { $_ -notlike '*<ele>*</ele>*' }) | set-content $_.FullName -Force }"

GPS babel puts elevations in as zero and without that Powershell command it would come out as a flat road on the Garmin, hence the removal of the "<ele>" tags with Powershell. This works now. When the GPX file is put on the Garmin (in NewFiles) it properly adds the elevations, although now the only copy of the route with elevations is a "FIT" file on the Garmin.

If you wanted the GPX file to have elevations, you'd have to copy the FIT file from Garmin\Courses and...

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FOR /F "tokens=*" %%G IN ('dir /b "*.fit"') DO gpsbabel -i garmin_fit -f "%%G" -o gpx -F "%%~nG.gpx"

Bearing in mind I've had a few drinks and it's Christmas day, but that should be right.