Friday, July 01, 2005
Day 8 postscript, aka: Technology, oh how it failed them, part II
Friday afternoon and evening was pretty low key. After I drove the guys back to the hotel, they showered. I wound up finding the location of the local outdoor public pool and left them in the room for a bit. When I got to the main road, I looked to the right before making my left. There I saw the Dopelgangers, cranking up the hill to the right, going along the Oregon Coast Bike route southbound. We must have passed them at some point. I wished Keith and Ruben could have seen it.
Marc had troubles with his bike most of the trip, but both Keith and Ruben had trouble with their bike technology. Keith suspects that his bicycle computer shorted out during that long wet day when we went through Lincoln City. It reset that day and a few other times since then. Then to top it off - the last two days of riding he had tracked their average speed down the coast and it was 14.9 mph. When he walked his bike back to the OR/CA border, it was just enough, just slow enough that their average speed went down to 14.8 mph.
Ruben, on the other hand, had this great bike mounted GPS unit given to him. That's how we've been getting those sweet pictures of where they biked and the elevation maps. Well, somewhere around Langlois the GPS unit stopped collecting data. He's still uncertain as to why, but all that data was lost. He spent much of Friday night trying to see if he could recover the data, but to no avail. We tracked the trip going back from Brookings to Portland via Reedsport - so he'll be able to rebuild the profile. Still that was a dissapointment.
After my swim and shower, we all went to dinner at a Chinese restaurant. No one said this was the "best Chinese food ever." It just wasn't. It was edible and no one got sick. That's always a plus.
We got to see a beautiful sunset from our room. This was the first one we had seen all trip because of the foul weather and clouds in the evening! After it got dark, Elias and I went to the beach and lit off a couple of small boxes of sparklers. He had so much fun with them. Why are they illegal in Seattle? Sigh.
Friday afternoon and evening was pretty low key. After I drove the guys back to the hotel, they showered. I wound up finding the location of the local outdoor public pool and left them in the room for a bit. When I got to the main road, I looked to the right before making my left. There I saw the Dopelgangers, cranking up the hill to the right, going along the Oregon Coast Bike route southbound. We must have passed them at some point. I wished Keith and Ruben could have seen it.
Marc had troubles with his bike most of the trip, but both Keith and Ruben had trouble with their bike technology. Keith suspects that his bicycle computer shorted out during that long wet day when we went through Lincoln City. It reset that day and a few other times since then. Then to top it off - the last two days of riding he had tracked their average speed down the coast and it was 14.9 mph. When he walked his bike back to the OR/CA border, it was just enough, just slow enough that their average speed went down to 14.8 mph.
Ruben, on the other hand, had this great bike mounted GPS unit given to him. That's how we've been getting those sweet pictures of where they biked and the elevation maps. Well, somewhere around Langlois the GPS unit stopped collecting data. He's still uncertain as to why, but all that data was lost. He spent much of Friday night trying to see if he could recover the data, but to no avail. We tracked the trip going back from Brookings to Portland via Reedsport - so he'll be able to rebuild the profile. Still that was a dissapointment.
After my swim and shower, we all went to dinner at a Chinese restaurant. No one said this was the "best Chinese food ever." It just wasn't. It was edible and no one got sick. That's always a plus.
We got to see a beautiful sunset from our room. This was the first one we had seen all trip because of the foul weather and clouds in the evening! After it got dark, Elias and I went to the beach and lit off a couple of small boxes of sparklers. He had so much fun with them. Why are they illegal in Seattle? Sigh.# posted by Lauren @ 11:33 PM 
