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Follow Team HTC-Columbia on Tour de France (link)
0July 4, 2010
My last post highlighted that you’d be able to follow team HTC-Columbia using Google’s services, but no address was yet available. Also, I learned that the HTC Legend is the phone model being used by the entire team to gather data for this project.
Here is Google’s live link: http://www.google.com/mytrackstour
…one for HighRoad Sports live data: http://highroadsports.com/velostream
…and SRM’s TdF live page: http://www.srmlive.de/Data/Telemetry.html
Google’s MyTracks app to Provide Real-Time Tour de France Data
13July 2, 2010
I’ll get to the headline news in just a moment, but first an announcement on Google’s MyTracks Android app:
Very soon, Google’s MyTracks sports tracking application will be updated to support both ANT+ and Bluetooth devices, making MyTracks one of the most versatile apps in its category.
Back to the headline… Exciting news surrounding Tour de France coverage! Google and High Road Sports have entered a collaboration, together with partnerships from HTC and SRM, to bring spectators of the Tour de France closer than ever seen before.
High Road Sports announces a new technology and marketing collaboration with Google Inc., supported by partners HTC and SRM, that brings a worldwide audience further inside the experience of racing in the Tour de France.
Fans and viewers will be able to follow Team HTC-Columbia riders in real time with speed, heart rate, power output and other data provided by SRM, More >
TjurRuset: Muddy Hell, But Fun.
4October 19, 2009
I ran the 2009 TjurRuset terrain race on Saturday and although my intention was to just have fun with the event, I wound up learning more about myself as a runner than I had in many years. 10 truly grueling kilometers of the annual run called “Tjur Ruset”, which literally translates into “The Bull Rush”. Essentially, the one-off design of the route through forrest, marsh and boulders reduced most of us to appear as if we were indeed, a stampede of nervous bulls who were escaping from a slaughterhouse.
This year’s course was the toughest one in memory for anybody I interviewed. The event location doesn’t change, but the routes and *edit- changes every year, but kept secret until weeks before each start.-edit end* Additional obstacles are brilliantly arranged to be about as difficult to run as possible. Mother Nature decided to kick it all up a More >
Lidingöloppet: My Performance Assessment
0September 28, 2009
Two days after Lidingöloppet and my body is giving me all the signs needed to finish writing my race-day assessment of my 2:44:02, 2009 performance:
Distance Training- 8/10. Following a three month training gap, I began preparing for this event in August. I jumped right into the last nine weeks of my 20-week marathon schedule. 635km in 9 full weeks for an average of 70km/week; 10km/day. This may have been too sudden but the distance workouts all went well, including a slow-dry run on the actual course three weeks ago (30km/2:52:00). When I say slow, I kept an even 5:25/km pace and a heart rate under 140 bpm to preserve my legs, while adding More >
Ready for Lidingöloppet!
0September 24, 2009
I suppose it’s a little bit funny that I’m so excited for this event after reading my “Urban or Suburban” post, but I am. The Lidingöloppet’s main race on Saturday is a 30km cross-country run on the picturesque island of Lidingö, a Northern suburb of Stockholm, Sweden. I lived here back in 2001 and I’ve missed it ever since I moved.
Lidingö has an area about 25% the size of Manhattan, but with only 30,000 inhabitants, leaving a lot of room for outdoor recreation. You’ll also find Sweden’s best sports training facility here, Bonsön, nestled on the island’s North side in the midst of Lidingö’s vast network of well-maintained trails. Many of these trails see race activity year-round; X-country skiing, running and triathlon.
I’ve been looking forward to this event for More >