The Road to PBP (and other stuff)

PBP 2011!

It’s PBP time again!  And this year we’re making it easier than ever to follow Justin online. I’ll be tweeting updates to the PBP progress plot which looks like this: http://twitter.com/#!/peko23/status/103921306822639616/photo/1 . And to add to the excitement, Dave is going to ride with Justin in spirit on his newly built pump track! Dave will ride one lap for every mile that Justin rides. Dave’s progress will be marked by the red square at the right, Justin’s by the red circle at the left. Other things to know about the plot:

1. Grey lines and symbols indicate Justin’s planned times and speeds.  These are probably a reasonably good estimate up to Brest at mile 600 — after that they represent more of a hope than a plan and all bets are off!
2. The shaded blue areas indicate night time (where Justin will be riding in the dark).
3. The solid line on the right indicates average cumulative speed (i.e. total distance traveled divided by total time including stops and check points).
4. The dotted line on the right indicates average rolling speed between check points including stopping time.  (You can tell from the pattern that they are planning longer stops at every other check point).
5. Since Dave still has to go to work on Monday and Tuesday, the plan is for him to build a cushion on Sunday so look for him to pull ahead!

Justin plans to ride with Melinda for as long as he can keep up;  all of them kick off at 10am this Sunday.  I’ll be updating Dave’s progress throughout the day; I anticipate Justin’s first update at Villain which is approximately 8 hours into the ride.  Stay tuned and follow the tweets for more info!