Video: Watching the Sun Rise: Mont Ventoux

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   Eric on June 13, 2011 1:46 pm

   This must have been a great ride/expérience. Will, I wonder if this will be the start of a new type of cycling for you? Light on the head (good choice btw) and riding straight through the night…you are getting ready to join the ultra distance crowd I guess.

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   Will on June 13, 2011 8:02 pm

   Eric,

   Yep, this could be a fun new hobby

   Although since, I am afraid of the dark, you’ll have to join me. 🙂

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   Emyr Williams on June 15, 2011 9:51 am

   Very different! Must have been great to reach the summit! 🙂

   I have a technical question – how do you generate the gradient graphs that you use on your website, are they made from the GPS tracks you collect?

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   Will on June 15, 2011 11:08 am

   Hi Emyr,

   I get the data from various sources depending on the climb: internet, books, magazines; or for the less famous stuff off my raw GPS data. I then manually make the charts using this software:

   http://www.omnigroup.com/products/omnigraphsketcher/

   I prefer doing it myself versus copying other peoples graphs.

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   Emyr Williams on June 15, 2011 1:00 pm

   Hi Will,

   Thanks for the tip, really appreciate the heads-up. I guess, to create the graphs you have to manually harvest the elevation data from the “gpx” files?

   I and a friend have been scrabbling around on the web to find something that did it for us simply but as with most things there is no obvious solution. I’ll have a look at OmniGraphSketcher, I think it’s on the Mac AppStore.

   Thanks once again and bonne route!

   Emyr

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   fptruedas on June 16, 2011 8:10 am

   very pretty photos

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   Nicholas on June 20, 2011 2:43 pm

   Amazing, Will! I did climb Ventoux on my own (my family and I were in the region for a week of holidays), just one day before you. Started at 5:50 AM, so didn’t see the sunrise. But it was most beautiful (and very cold) nevertheless!
   Nicholas

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