What? Why? How? (sticky)

Hello and welcome,

Thanks for dropping by. I set this site up to track my progress towards the completion of my 2012 challenge. I'm aiming to travel 2,012km in 20.12 (appx) weeks in the gym or on the road. You can sign up yourself (or find out more) at this website.

Early on in the process I realised that the distance I would be covering would get me from Bristol, UK - where I live - to the outskirts of Rome, Italy. So I've been tracking my route along the way following this map.


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I hope to raise a bit of money for Habitat for Humanity in the course of this - there's a justgiving page for that purpose. There is no obligation on anyone to donate - for me this is more about the process.

Thursday, January 19, 2012

test post..

One of the things I wanted to get out of this exercise was a chance to play with and look at how technologies can be used, linked, and played with to achieve different things on the interwebs.

So, after a bruising 20k on the bike this evening, I settled down to try & put my route on 'my maps' in Google. It was surprisingly made a little difficult by Google's removal of the 'export KML' button which apparently used to exist. Thanks though to Frank Taylor's Google Earth Blog I was able to find a work round.

And, fingers crossed... I should now be able to plot my virtual location on a virtual map. Starting steadily, I'll try a link.

So the route appears... but not the placemarker... will sleep on it. (Canterbury if you're wondering)
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