2020 Wrightwood 50........Unoffical

Faust29 said:
I have the 11 Pro Max and wouldn't trust it to run tracking software for 11 hours. :eek: I used to get 5 or 6 hours out of the older phones at the most...
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Wait, are you saying I'm not going to have enough battery life on my phone for a Strava record of the ride? I didn't want to buy a bike computer but if that's the only way I can get my Strava for the ride then I guess I have to. Otherwise why even go?
 
UPSed said:
I don't think Strava works in airplane on iPhones. It does on Android. Sounds like you have a solution though.
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I just went and looked that up... It will track the GPS coordinates in airplane mode, but nothing else. No maps are downloaded, no live tracking, etc. is visible until it gets a connection.

But that doesn't work so well for navigation... Bug and Sara are going to be doing a lot of that. :p
 
buggravy said:
So you're telling me they didn't make you navigate, you know, as the new person? Must be that magic pink helmet :).
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I bring it up every time we get new people on this ride, but it always seems to fall through. This is the year! :p

The first year really was pretty special... It was 100% new dirt, we had no idea about the temperature swings, and we were 1 step away from being lost all day. We didn't even know that there was a single track left near the end of the route (Table Mountain). Being able to recreate part of that for the new guys would be kind of cool. Hard to do, though...
 
buggravy said:
So you're telling me they didn't make you navigate, you know, as the new person? Must be that magic pink helmet :).
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we had a friend join us a couple years ago for this ride. He asked if he’d be able to navigate without a device....I said not likely. He joined us for the ride. By mile 7 he would have missed a turn as the trail was not well marked. then it would have just gotten worse.

hell, ask @SS Barby how his WW50 went last year....or was it the WW60. :whistling:
 
Having a proper GPS is no sure thing either if you don't know how to use it or pay attention. Just ask @Sidewalk .

I was at the cooler when he climbed up the hill and turned the wrong direction down the road. I called him back and sent him the right way, but rather than turn onto Boy Scout he went around the corner and climbed the road for a while. :facepalm: I heard there were a few other wrong turns as well. Not sure if it was that same year or the following one but he was in a sprint finish with Carl and missed the turn to the Yodeller at the end. Carl backed off and let him go the wrong way, then took the right turn and the win. :Roflmao
 
evdog said:
Having a proper GPS is no sure thing either if you don't know how to use it or pay attention. Just ask @Sidewalk .

I was at the cooler when he climbed up the hill and turned the wrong direction down the road. I called him back and sent him the right way, but rather than turn onto Boy Scout he went around the corner and climbed the road for a while. :facepalm: I heard there were a few other wrong turns as well. Not sure if it was that same year or the following one but he was in a sprint finish with Carl and missed the turn to the Yodeller at the end. Carl backed off and let him go the wrong way, then took the right turn and the win. :Roflmao
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That’s hilarious! (If you’re not Sidewalk). I can’t say I blame this Carl guy in the heat of the race, But I do know that sidewalk came back the next year for a proper shellacking.
 
Faust29 said:
I have the 11 Pro Max and wouldn't trust it to run tracking software for 11 hours. :eek: I used to get 5 or 6 hours out of the older phones at the most...
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I phone 11 ? My old Iphone 7 worked fine all day in Kokopelli with nightly charging. In Prescott this last year even with 3-4 bars my phone died in 2 hours. After that I put it in energy saver mode on all rides and my old phone did fine on 4 hours rides. I may have to bring along a jumper battery pack for extended rides with this new phone.
 
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