Nov 12 2008
Iceman ‘08
Last weekend was the 2008 Iceman Cometh race, near Traverse City, Michigan. 27 or so miles of single and double track fun. This year the weather threatened to be worthy of the race’s name, but during the race it was around 40 degrees (great racing weather) and the recent precipitation made the course firm and fast.
This is the fifth year in a row that I have raced the Iceman, but the first time on my new single speed. I ended up finishing with a personal best (2:09:14) for the course. Less gears = faster bike?
I recorded the course this year with a high frequency GPS data logger (1 record per second). The data is available here in KML. If you open up the file in Google Earth you can use the time slider to play through the race.
iceman08.kmz (right click to save)
I also loaded the route onto OpenStreetMap. The cycle specific rendering can be found here:
http://opencyclemap.org/?lat=44.73977&lon=-85.20621&zoom=14&layers=B000
Long live long rides…