miércoles, 18 de agosto de 2021
Day 4: good day
martes, 17 de agosto de 2021
Day 3: Oh brother where art thou
Day 2: it's just three brothers (on the way to Montpellier)
Day two started relatively early, although not as early as our campground neighbors (also biking) who leave camp as it is barely light out. Of course, they probably didn't bike 160 km the day before, but I digress...
The morning starts a bit slow. I (Alfonso) am still quite tired and the heat never really went away fully. As I hope you'll discover by reading this (and me constantly complaining about it) the heat is and will remain the main challenge.
Sergio brought something important besides himself: we know have some sort of hydration mixing powder that will remain key in the coming days. These are the boring parts (the heat and the constant looking for water) but I guess it's what you think of the most when your head is being broiled by the southern France heat.
The way starts relatively cool, something like 28°C, which allows us to make a relatively good distance early. However, we soon start to wonder about where are we going and how to get there. The general consensus is East, of course but recent experiences with the French cycling infrastructure and Google maps apparent disregard for our lives force us to be more strategic. We finally settle on a target: the area around Marseillan, a small town on the coast and the route: follow medium and small departmental roads.
viernes, 13 de agosto de 2021
Day 1: hot hot heat
I'm on a tent. It's 23:16. It's hot, there is a concert we miracously do not hear. It's 00:00. I open my tent and let air in.
Today we had a great day. That's what we'd have said if we were in the beach. The 34 C in the afternoon almost took down Alfonso during a climb in the last 800m before the camping. Wait, what do you mean the camping is full? We need another 15km back from where we came from?? Ok. They were super nice in what later became the camping were we did not stay: they gave us water and a table to eat and rest. But nice as they were, they were unable warn us we would pierce a tire in the last-last part of our trip.
The morning was actually the best part of the day. We woke up at 5 am, left my house at 7 am. We wish we had left earlier : the alarm of a nearby house rang from 10 PM to 7 am (we suspect it still goes on until now). Also, there was 30 C INSIDE my house regardless of the time of day. Kind of like inside the tent, actually.
I was saying, the morning was the best part of the day. We did 100km to Carcassonne before noon. Which is very impressive I think. We were confident. Too confident we later learned.
We drank water like... Horses? And still the heat was very extreme. We need to stop riding in the afternoon we decide. Specially the next days that we will have fewer kilometers The end of the was celebrated drinking sprinkle water in the bar at the definitive camping. The main event was the arrival of the third brother who came riding from the Narbonne train station.
Now the team is complete, nothing should ever go wrong. We go to sleep late and very tired.
jueves, 12 de agosto de 2021
Brothers with bicycles 2021
Many things have passed since the last post almost 4 years ago. So many, that I'm not going to attempt to describe them. Instead, I announce that we're making another trip. Now. But this trip is now in English (by popular demand). This time the trip starts in France and ends in Italy (one country is never long enough for the fierce Brothers).
With that. Let the stories begin.
sábado, 4 de noviembre de 2017
Estadísticas post viaje 2
jueves, 2 de noviembre de 2017
Estadísticas post viaje 1
python
en vez de en R
: se acumulan los retos.pandas
de python y a la implementación que tienen de ggplot
: todo parece "casi igual" a R excepto en millones de casos. Y eso me ha hecho tener 30 pestañas abiertas para poder entender cómo demonios se convierte de formato una columna en una tabla. En serio. Lo único bueno fue encontrar un tema de xkcd.date | uphill (m) | time (s) | distance (km) | time (h) | dist_cum (m) |
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2017-08-30 | 504.4 | 36807 | 96.04 | 10.22 | 96.04 |
2017-08-31 | 315.4 | 23253 | 54.40 | 6.46 | 150.45 |
2017-09-01 | 419.1 | 17574 | 71.91 | 4.88 | 222.36 |
2017-09-02 | 1211.0 | 36973 | 112.35 | 10.27 | 334.72 |
2017-09-03 | 1128.9 | 32662 | 99.72 | 9.07 | 434.44 |
2017-09-04 | 407.6 | 15984 | 63.37 | 4.44 | 497.82 |
2017-09-05 | 328.6 | 16764 | 58.82 | 4.66 | 556.64 |
2017-09-06 | 508.7 | 34107 | 87.56 | 9.47 | 644.21 |
2017-09-07 | 451.2 | 10182 | 49.11 | 2.83 | 693.33 |
2017-09-09 | 1017.2 | 32074 | 130.59 | 8.91 | 823.92 |
2017-09-10 | 824.3 | 29768 | 111.79 | 8.27 | 935.72 |
2017-09-11 | 1156.7 | 31356 | 110.67 | 8.71 | 1046.39 |
2017-09-12 | 348.8 | 11670 | 27.25 | 3.24 | 1073.65 |
2017-09-13 | 662.5 | 31994 | 110.99 | 8.89 | 1184.64 |
2017-09-14 | 657.8 | 36910 | 109.92 | 10.25 | 1294.56 |
2017-09-15 | 31.4 | 1124 | 2.70 | 0.31 | 1297.27 |