Tomorrow is a 70-mile ride with RCCS out of Orleans, IN. I’m doing an experiment. I’ll have my Android phone with me, and I’m going to set it up to live track the ride. If this works, you will be able to track our progress in real time, as we ride.

The ride starts at 9am eastern. If y0u want to follow along, visit my account on MapMyTracks. If it’s working properly, you’ll see a new entry at the top. Click on it and with any luck, it should show our route so far, some stats, and our current location. The map will then actually continue drawing as we ride.

I’ve done a few tests, and this does seem to work. However, I’m not sure what cell coverage will be like along the route, or if my battery will last all day. It’s a fun experiment, regardless.

I have a lot of non-bike-related things I’ve been thinking about writing about. I’m trying to decide whether to post everything here, or create a secondary, “everything-but-biking” blog. Sometimes I hesitate to post things here that aren’t “on-topic,” but of course the topic can be whatever I want it to be.

So, I ask you … what would YOU prefer? Would you be interested in posts on other topics? They could range from photography to GIS to movies, music, beer, school projects … basically anything. I can obviously post things on this blog very easily. I could also provide a cycling RSS feed, if you wanted to just read about cycling. It would also be easy for me to setup a secondary blog would allow this blog to remain cycling-focused, and still give me an outlet to write about other topics.

What do you think?

It was a beautiful weekend — highs in the upper 30s, even over 40 on Sunday, and roads clear enough that I could have taken the Bianchi out for a nice long ride. Which is exactly what I intended to do. Instead, I spent basically the entire weekend in bed, sick.  Blah.

I’m still sick, but less so. I moved my blog over to my “new” host. Let me know if you notice any issues. I already have some other projects hosted on this server, and it’s been very reliable, so this should be a vast improvement. For the curious, it’s a managed Linux VPS. The hosting company keeps things up-to-date, does backups, and does some basic maintenance. I still have a VPS with root access. I find it to be the sweet spot of not having to worry about it constantly, but still having complete control over the system.