{"id":150,"date":"2008-08-23T23:10:43","date_gmt":"2008-08-24T06:10:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lyspeth.com\/blog\/2008\/08\/23\/climbing-and-the-ethics-of-posting-ride-routes\/"},"modified":"2008-08-27T14:42:33","modified_gmt":"2008-08-27T21:42:33","slug":"climbing-and-the-ethics-of-posting-ride-routes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lyspeth.com\/blog\/2008\/08\/23\/climbing-and-the-ethics-of-posting-ride-routes\/","title":{"rendered":"Climbing and the ethics of posting ride routes"},"content":{"rendered":"

I entered the route for Tour de Menlo 2008<\/a> into my Bikely routes, but I haven’t published it as public because I’m not sure whether that’s polite. The route creators presumably put some work into creating the route (and they did a good job), and maybe don’t want other rides to borrow it wholesale. <\/p>\n

Update<\/b>: A few days later, it occurs to me that the ride route is given as a PDF on their site. That being the case, I think publishing it really can’t do any harm. It’s now linked above.<\/p>\n

On the other hand, I would like to be able to show it, because it’s an interesting route to look at and for other people to use individually, and I did a good amount of hard work just now creating the cue sheet correctly (which in Bikely means notating all the turns with the direction and street name) — which the Tour did not do.<\/p>\n

The total climb for that ride is about 3600 ft, so it’s roughly analogous to W2W Day 2, being only 7 miles shorter and having the same listed amount of climbing. That’s actually about the amount of climbing I estimated it had, because it felt like doing my hard 34-mile ride (1800 ft climbing) and then doing it again, which it pretty much is. I may do this route again (with a couple of modifications because I think some of their decisions were weird, and also I might rather reverse it and try to climb Montebello first, and then the rest of it — though I don’t know how that might work with the rest of the route) as a training ride, maybe on the last Saturday before W2W.<\/p>\n

Only three weeks til the ride! My goodness. I’m glad though, since I’m getting close to being ready to take a break from having cycling be the #3 thing in my life after work and functioning.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I entered the route for Tour de Menlo 2008 into my Bikely routes, but I haven’t published it as public because I’m not sure whether that’s polite. The route creators presumably put some work into creating the route (and they did a good job), and maybe don’t want other rides to borrow it wholesale. Update: […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[6,14],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lyspeth.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/150"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lyspeth.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lyspeth.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lyspeth.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lyspeth.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=150"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lyspeth.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/150\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lyspeth.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=150"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lyspeth.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=150"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lyspeth.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=150"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}