Distance: 92.41km Elevation: 1242m Duration: 4h08 Avg. Speed: 22.3km/h Details: gpsies, trainingstagebuch TCX file: TCX file (including elevation alerts)
It’s an idea I had since some quite a while and as Röbi did something similar on his last trip, I decided to plan a trip where I see as much castles around Zurich as possible.
I used the castle descriptions where you also have the gps coordinates (just click on the castle, then on the coordinates on the top right of the page. You can copy the coordinates from the url).
I then put all the selected castles as a waypoint on the map. Now I just had to find a decent way to combine them.
You won’t imagine it, but some castles are not really obvious to see, I even missed more than one. Some castles are hidden in the wood, which is not really suitable with a racing bike. And the big problem was, that I did not save the exact position on my Edge 705 but instead worked with waypoints. Waypoints do only match the nearest defined point on the track!
I missed: Ruine Alt-Wülflingen, Ruine Moosburg, Ruine Dübelstein
So be sure to upload the real positions as well!
Two more things: My Garmin Edge had a crash (Garmin please fix at least the history file so it’s usable after a crash). I saved a blindworm from its evident death on the street.
