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Drum roll ... WRT GR.

Posted: Sat Apr 01, 2017 9:57 am
by Bearbonesnorm
This years WRT GR have left the building. If you entered, they should be landing in your inbox sometime today, however if they don't ......

1/ Think long and hard about whether you actually entered or just meant to.

2/ Go and have a look in your spam folder.

3/ Go and have a look in the spam folders of all your email accounts including those you never use and the one that's set up to paypal.

4/ Did someone else enter on your behalf or did you use a paypal account belonging to someone else?

If there's still nothing after following the above steps, email me and I'll forward them to you.

Happy Mapping :-bd

Re: Drum roll ... WRT GR.

Posted: Sat Apr 01, 2017 10:20 am
by benp1
Exciting!

Got the email, but haven't got the maps out yet. Which rough area are they heading in?

Re: Drum roll ... WRT GR.

Posted: Sat Apr 01, 2017 10:28 am
by Bearbonesnorm
Which rough area are they heading in?
Kind of south.

This year's about options and choice, so there's quite a number covering a pretty big area.

Re: Drum roll ... WRT GR.

Posted: Sat Apr 01, 2017 10:32 am
by Richard G
So which one will you have put in the sea this time? :lol:

Re: Drum roll ... WRT GR.

Posted: Sat Apr 01, 2017 10:40 am
by Bearbonesnorm
So which one will you have put in the sea this time? :lol:
Oi, what does it say on the email about that.

Re: Drum roll ... WRT GR.

Posted: Sat Apr 01, 2017 11:01 am
by Richard G
Oh sure... I obviously mean "intentionally put in the sea". :lol:

Re: Drum roll ... WRT GR.

Posted: Sat Apr 01, 2017 11:44 am
by Roobell7
So my 2010 practice route earlier this month wasn't a waste :grin: Hopefully i can still recall the best, or worse tracks of my ride

Re: Drum roll ... WRT GR.

Posted: Sat Apr 01, 2017 11:49 am
by frogatthefarriers
This means that Wheres the Path will be showing "Daily usage exceeded" again

Re: Drum roll ... WRT GR.

Posted: Sat Apr 01, 2017 12:05 pm
by Bearbonesnorm
So my 2010 practice route earlier this month wasn't a waste :grin: Hopefully i can still recall the best, or worse tracks of my ride
I didn't like to say owt at the time :wink:

Re: Drum roll ... WRT GR.

Posted: Sat Apr 01, 2017 1:53 pm
by Sarah
Woohoo. Library had all the maps in. Looking forward to pondering best tea shops en route. :-bd

Re: Drum roll ... WRT GR.

Posted: Sat Apr 01, 2017 2:14 pm
by Blair512
Sarah wrote:Woohoo. Library had all the maps in. Looking forward to pondering best tea shops en route. :-bd
Can you borrow OS maps from the library?

Re: Drum roll ... WRT GR.

Posted: Sat Apr 01, 2017 2:48 pm
by Sarah
Yep. Full set at mine.

Might accidentally drop them on photocopier at school on Monday.

Great for stuff and places I don't go to regularly.

Re: Drum roll ... WRT GR.

Posted: Sat Apr 01, 2017 2:54 pm
by Roobell7
Bearbonesnorm wrote:
So my 2010 practice route earlier this month wasn't a waste :grin: Hopefully i can still recall the best, or worse tracks of my ride
I didn't like to say owt at the time :wink:
:-bd

Re: Drum roll ... WRT GR.

Posted: Sat Apr 01, 2017 3:24 pm
by Bearbonesnorm
Might accidentally drop them on photocopier at school on Monday.
How old are you? Do your parents know you're coming?

Re: Drum roll ... WRT GR.

Posted: Sat Apr 01, 2017 5:19 pm
by Asposium
go onto streetmap.co.uk and change to lat/long. :P

Re: Drum roll ... WRT GR.

Posted: Sat Apr 01, 2017 8:17 pm
by Sarah
Bearbonesnorm wrote: How old are you? Do your parents know you're coming?
Old enough to know better. :lol: Waiting to figure out what I want to do when I leave school, till then [teaching] :ugeek:

Re: Drum roll ... WRT GR.

Posted: Sat Apr 01, 2017 10:30 pm
by Zippy
Good spread of points Stu - lots of route options to go over. Just trying to generate a printable map now...

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Re: Drum roll ... WRT GR.

Posted: Sat Apr 01, 2017 11:17 pm
by RIP
840516..... arg..nooooo.. nearly my last resting place.

Loving all the different options and possibilities, thank you for your efforts with it all. Glad to see some good downhills, cafes, pubs, red kites, butterflies, and yes even a cooling paddle with an ice-cream can be shoehorned into it. If you're happy for me to open an LHC thread, will do so shortly but will PM you first to check a few things if I may please.

Re: Drum roll ... WRT GR.

Posted: Sat Apr 01, 2017 11:18 pm
by techno
Zippy wrote:Good spread of points Stu - lots of route options to go over. Just trying to generate a printable map now...
what will you be using to do that, is it online or software?

Re: Drum roll ... WRT GR.

Posted: Sat Apr 01, 2017 11:50 pm
by Richard G
I put all of the GRs into this and then export to GPSies (Edit - Hmm... that hasn't worked well this time. I'm sure it used to add them as waypoints).

http://gridreferencefinder.com/

I think I'll be filling out some of my missing squares (Veloviewer explorer), even if it means going up stupid hills only to cycle back down them again. :lol:

Re: Drum roll ... WRT GR.

Posted: Sun Apr 02, 2017 8:29 am
by Bearbonesnorm
If you're happy for me to open an LHC thread, will do so shortly but will PM you first to check a few things if I may please.
Fire away Reg.

Re: Drum roll ... WRT GR.

Posted: Sun Apr 02, 2017 8:37 am
by Zippy
techno mail wrote:
Zippy wrote:Good spread of points Stu - lots of route options to go over. Just trying to generate a printable map now...
what will you be using to do that, is it online or software?
qGIS.

Re: Drum roll ... WRT GR.

Posted: Sun Apr 02, 2017 12:43 pm
by BigdummySteve
WRT points as a GPX file if thay are any help
https://www.dropbox.com/s/sgef75hdturch ... S.gpx?dl=0

now i just need to figure out how to use basecamp :sad:

Re: Drum roll ... WRT GR.

Posted: Mon Apr 03, 2017 8:01 am
by Asposium
BigdummySteve wrote:WRT points as a GPX file if thay are any help
https://www.dropbox.com/s/sgef75hdturch ... S.gpx?dl=0

now i just need to figure out how to use basecamp :sad:
Thanks :-bd

Saves me a job. :lol:

Re: Drum roll ... WRT GR.

Posted: Mon Apr 03, 2017 9:42 am
by Bearbonesnorm
A full 48 hours and no one's posted to say - "I've worked my route out, it takes in all the GR, is 170km long and contains 4322m of ascent". Standards appear to be slipping :wink: I also think we may have also managed to avoid any GR in the Irish sea this year :-bd