I am soo excited - I think we are fit enough (we are certainly fitter than last year), although I havent hacked out in a couple of weeks as he has been schooling and going out to dressage etc
Does anyone have any tips for making sure we are within time? I havent managed to get a GPS watch as havent had the £££, but I have Endomondo on my phone which I can use.
Last year I rode wuth someone that knew what they were doing but this year i'm with 2 friends who have never done it before so it's down to me to make sure we got home in time.
If you see us, please say hi! I will be on Shesky - the White one in my sig x
Hi I wil be there with Laddie. Haven't got a GPS so I just work out the mimimum and maximum times to get to the different checkpoints (distance to each in kilometeres are on your talkaround) I just use a stop watch. You can always set you ordinary watch to 12 o 'clock and count the time from then if you haven't a stop watch. Good Luck Sandy East Sussex
We are taking three. We do have a GPS but we also work out times for each checkpoint (this time at 12 k.p.h. as we have an Open, a Novice and a NCR) with fastest and slowest times that we can finish in.
I will miss it as I am offshore again but my Mum will be on Checkpoint 3 with a large white poodle - have a great time everyone
Pasha I have a GPS watch and have yet to get round without it turning off at some point (v. frustrating!), have had much more success with the writing the min and max times I need to do to each checkpoint on the talk round and using a cheapo traiathlon watch which has a stop watch which I start off at the start. My sister just sets her watch to midday when she starts, and she's open level - you don't need all this technology really!
Zahkira (GR Amaretto x Taffetta) Linda East Sussex
Thanks Linda - I am going to write my checkpoint times on my talkround, start my watch at 12 and set Endomondo to track us - hopefully we will get home with that lot
Careful re GPS as the official distances are not always spot on or if you take a wrong turn and have to correct you would need to be going faster than your average speed on GPS to make up.
What I do is take the map - if they give distances to check points work out min/max want to be at each check point, then I end up at finish line in time with out catch up/ slow down needed at end.
If no distances - measure course with bit of string on their map and divide in to quarters and calculate time for each quarter.
All of this info I scribble on my map.
Careful re relying on iPhone apps - at Tilford this year had Mapmyride running and the baterries died at some point between 33 and 66k!
Have fun
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That's what I did and set my watch to 12 (I did also put on my Endomundo which was very accurate)... Finished with an average of 9.58 km/ hr. I was aiming for 10 and was on target until my friend and her horse parted company before CP4 and we lost a bit of time trying to catch her! Monkey :)
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Posted - 01 Aug 2012 : 1:50:44 PM
but my Mum will be on Checkpoint 3 with a large white poodle - have a great time everyone 
Zahkira (GR Amaretto x Taffetta)
