Horsepower 100 Calendar Event 2024 [Enter this ride][enter]

This page is for downloading alternative versions of the GPS files for this, Tom Deakins' calendar event, starting from Churchend, Great Dunmow, on Saturday 9 March 2024 at 09.00.  There's a bit of chatter on yacf (and last year).

The GPS routes given on this page will hopefully be tested during February 2024.

Note: if you're after the Horsepower 50 GPS files or Horsepower 200 GPS files then try either of these pages.

This page updated 17 February 2024.

The Routesheet

You can download Tom's routesheet from here.

The GPS Files

IMPORTANT — make sure you understand which version of the following GPS files are most suitable for your device.

  • Garmin Edge devices — new 500, new 700, 800/810/820, 1000, 1030 — use TCX; 10,000 points should be okay
  • The RideWithGPS IQ App also allows direct download from the pinned track to the latest Garmin Edge units with mobile connection
  • Older Garmin Edge devices — you're in a murky area in that TCX should work, but you may get a more reliable result from GPX; 10,000 points should be okay
  • Wahoo devices — TCX 10k, or "pin" the RideWithGPS route
  • Older Garmin devices — GPX and either 250-point or 500-point depending on which device.

Make sure you test these files out on your device before you start!

The full-route files are provided as a single TCX or GPX each.  However, the rest of the GPS routes, where the route is split into multiple GPS files, are provided as a ZIP file for each format — you require all of the files in the ZIP file!

The routes are provided as follows:

  • a single route for the whole 106km — FULL;
  • a set of two routes, one per stage — STAGE.

Each part starts and ends at a control.

The routes will appear as HP100_… on your device.

Note — the main/classic/official route from the start to Newmarket follows the B184 to Thaxted and on to Saffron Walden.  Tom's routesheet gives a flatter, lanier alternative route via Little Easton to Thaxted; this is given as STAGE_1B or as the full route FULL_ZALT (the Z is to make sure the first route listed is always the classic route).  You've been told, now make sure you follow the one you'd prefer — the alternative versions are included in each of the ZIP files, below.

There are additional notes in the organiser's notes and routesheet, including cautions and alternative routes. It is your responsibility to familiarise yourself with the route and any reported hazards before you start, especially as none of this information is included in the GPS files!

This is now where it gets complicated — there are a LOT of options here, sorted by how split up the route is, how many points in each part, and whether it's TCX or GPX.

Don't forget to take a pencil with you to write the info answers.  And the routesheet, just in case!

 

If you're still having GPS problems or have a question about GPS then email Nick.

If you have a question for the event organiser, then email Tom Deakins.