Kiwi Brevet 2012–Just my daily stats

I’ll get my photos and more short stories together over the week. But, here are GPS stats to start off with. Yes, I put in a huge push on day 7 to finish in under seven (elapsed) days – finished in 6d20h50m. Part of this was miscalculation, part was weather. Once it started raining heavy I decided to camp under the pines – always dry on pine needles. That way I would still be warm when I went to sleep.

It’s interesting how hard it can be to get statistics to add up correctly. As it was with my Kiwi Brevet. My Etrex30 is clearly showing 1100km travelled with a total ascent of 20004m – twenty kilometres. When riding it was roughly holding 2500m+ per day. However, when loading the data in Garmin connect the totals only come to around 16km ascended whether using raw, or “corrected” data. This indicates that more points are being summed up into the dashboard view, than are stored in the GPX files relating to this multiday bikepacking adventure. My data comparisons are showing the the raw data in the Etrex30 to be more accurate than the Garmin Connect corrected elevation data.

Note these distances include smidgens of extras for finding, food, campsites, accommodation and cue-sheet double-takes.

	Distance	Total Ascent (GC - Corrected)	Total Ascent (raw)
Day 1 - Blenheim to Molesworth Homestead	116.13km	2180m	2466m
Day 2 - Molesworth Homestead to Okuku Saddle	188.42km	1751m	2126m
Day 3 - Okuku Saddle to Lake Lyndon	104.2km	1578m	1704m
Day 4 - Lake Lyndon to Blackball	165.81km	1631m	1739m
Day 5 - Blackball to Springs Junction	128.4km	2396m	2089m
Day 6 - Springs Junction to Golden Downs	170.05km	2411m	2585m
Day 7 - Golden Downs to Blenheim	222.91km	4206m	3539m
	1095.92km	16153m	16248m