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24-NOV-2006

Bike Riding.

Bike Riding.
Okay, so this isn't your typical picture, but I thought it was worthy of making the POD album. Most people here in lab are very fit, and enjoy spending their free time running, biking, hiking, skiing... I was invited by two people that work here on my floor, Benoit and Markus (who, by the way, are avid bikers and are in superb shape) for a bike ride last Sunday. For them, a 1000 meter (3000 foot) high mountain bike-ride is as easy as riding your bike to the grocery store. I did my best, although they were kind enough to constantly wait for me as I did my best to catch up. The weather was pretty lousy, rain and wind, but the ride was great - and the view from the top, even better. There are so many twists and turns in the road, I can't wait to get my motorcycle up there.
So, Benoit has a tiny GPS that was able to record our ride; the time, speed, location, distance, altitude, etc. When we got back, he uploaded the information and then mapped it onto 3D satellite images using Goolge Earth. So, here's a screenshot from that program, where you can see our path highlighted in turquoise - the gray 'wall' above that line represents our speed (well, actually Benoit's speed), the higher the wall, the faster the speed. This is the view of the ascent.


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