Storming in the New Year

Last Friday (4 January 2008) the Bay Area was hit with one of the nastiest storms we've ever seen.  A strong steady wind (40+ MPH at times) was aided by wind gusts of 50+ MPH, and accompanied by a torrential downpour that made for one dark, stay-inside day that brought down fences (yes, mine - whimper), trees and power lines.  It also put a halt to the obsessive compulsive running, cycling, rowing, etc. for which our customers are known.  Well, most of you halted, retreating indoors for a ride on the trainer, a run on the treadmill or just curling up with a good book.  Yet, while most of us took cover inside, no fewer than nine of our Bay Area customers proved that they are slightly off kilter (my personal 348th reason to love the Bay Area).  In my quest to see just how many die hard outdoorsmen we have at MotionBased, I stumbled across this comment: "Very, very wet and windy.  Excellent!"  That was jmcauliffe's attitude about his 12.41 mile mountain bike ride.  Fortunately he was adventurous enough to go during what was probably his lunch break!  (For some reason the weather data for a few of the area's activities is not posting.  Check out the steady wind speeds on Intern-Devon's attempted drive to work.)  Check out jmcauliffe's ride out below.  And, if you're curious to see who else in the Bay Area suffers from OCD, take a stab at the search functions by choosing a Custom Date in Quick Filters, then running the Map Filter.  HAPPY NEW YEAR EVERYONE!

Comments

[Wes]

Speaking of Winter/stormy rides, any updates on being able to add non-gps activities to my Motionbased logs? Puh-leeze! Pretty please! The GPS abilities are awesome.. I love the site.. But the fact of the matter is that most of my proper training is done indoors on a trainer for about 1/4 of the year here in Toronto. That's a pretty big gap in my training log! I can use Training Center to track everything from my Edge 305 of course, but in all honesty I'd much prefer to use MB. Perhaps it's just the Mac version of Training Center (*nudge* Garmin, if you're reading this *nudge*), as I haven't tried the PC version.

Anyway, keep up the great work guys! But don't forget us ever-growing population of Mac switchers/users.

Cheers,
Wes

[Jay Parkhill]

I went out riding in that storm. I made it about 500 yards before a 60 ft tree came down across the road right in front of me. Decided I had better things to do than risk being squashed.