Te Araroa To Gisborne

Start: Te Araroa Holiday Park
End: Gisborne Hospital
Time: Too many hours 9:15 til crash
Ride Time: 6:11
Distance: 85.85km by bike ~100km by ambulance
Av Speed:13.8
Max Speed: 59.6
Max HR: 154
Total Ascent: 1049 m
Track Data:
Ride Description: Hard ride over 7 "hard" hills to Te Puia Springs, crashed on downhill out of Te Puia Springs, rode by ambulance from Te Puia Springs to Gisborne.

Waihau Bay to Te Araroa

Start:Waihau Bay Holiday park
End:Te Araroa Holiday Park
Time:5:20
Ride Time:3:03
Distance:47.38
Av Speed:15.4
Max Speed:57.1
Max HR: 167
Total Ascent:568m

Maraehako Bay To Waihau Bay

Start:Maraehako Bay Retreat
End:Waihau Bay Holiday Park
Time: 3:38
Ride Time:1:38
Distance:24.59
Av Speed:14.9
Max Speed:50.2
Max HR:160
Total Ascent: 229m
Ride Description: Several hills and directly along the coast to Waihau Bay.

Hawai To Maraehako Bay

Start:Hawai Bay Camping Ground
End:Maraehako Bay Retreat
Time:6:52
Ride Time: 4:00
Distance: 58.00
Av Speed: 14.4
Max Speed:54.9
Max HR: 156
Total Ascent: 605 m
Ride Description: Hilly ride from Hawai To Maraehako Bay, originally was going to stop at Te Kaha

Opotiki To Hawai

Start: Opotiki Holiday Park
End: Hawai Bay camp
Time: 2:27
Ride Time 1:41
Distance: 28.16km
Av Speed:16.6
Max Speed:55.8
Max HR:158
Total Ascent: 183
Ride Description:A short ride several "moderate"climbs. A little less than half the distance to Te Kaha.

Port Ohope to Opotiki

Start: Port Ohope Top 10 Holiday Park
End: Opotiki Holiday Park
Time: 3:45
Ride Time: 2:46
Distance: 42.23 km
Av Speed: 15.2
Max Speed: 56.5
Max HR: 157
Total Ascent: 228m
Track Data:
Ride Description: Port Ohope to Rt 35 to Rt 2 to Opotiki. A couple of largish hills, but mostly rolling until Rt 2, then relatively flat. Mostly to windward as it is still blowing hard from the SE.

Rotoma To Port Ohope

Start: Rotoma Holiday Park
End: Port Ohope Top 10 Holiday Park
Time: ~ 7 hrs
Ride Time: 4:30
Distance: 70.81
Av Speed: 15.7
Max Speed: 57.4
Max HR: 164
Total Ascent: 440
Track Data:
Ride Description: From Lake Rotoma to Port Ohope via Whakatane

Rotorua to Rotoma

Start: Rotorua (Starbucks Downtown)
End: Rotoma (Holiday Park)
Time: 3:03
Ride Time: 2:17
Distance: 36.71km
Av Speed: 16.0
Max Speed: 60.6
Max HR: 162
Total Ascent: 397m
Track Data:
Ride Description: Rode along Lake Rotorua to Rt 30 towards Whakatane. Only one sizable hill, but rolling much of the way.

Rotorua

Start: Rotorua (Thermal Holiday Park)
End: Rotorua (Thermal Holiday Park)
Time:
Ride Time: 1:30
Distance: 22.32
Av Speed: 14.7
Max Speed: 45.8
Max HR:
Total Ascent:
Track Data:
Ride Description:Ride around town

Okoroire to Rotorua

Start:Okoroire (Okoroire Hoel)
End: Rotorua (Thermal Holiday Park)
Time:7:25
Ride Time:
Distance: 60.52
Av Speed:
Max Speed:49.9
Max HR:
Total Ascent:528
Track Data:
Ride Description:

Matamata To Okoroire

Start: Matamat (Opal Hot Springs Holiday Park)
End: Okoroire (Okoroire Hotel and Campground)
Time: 5:15
Ride Time:1;45
Distance: 31.o4
Av Speed:17.7
Max Speed: 44.6
Max HR: 150
Total Ascent: 149 m
Track Data:
Ride Description: Mostly flat from Matamata to Hinuera then rolled to Okoroire

Te Aroha to Matamata

Start: Te Aroha (holiday park)
End: Matamata (Opal Hot Spings Holiday park)
Time: 3:47
Ride Time: 2:19
Distance: 39.96 km
Av Speed: 17.1 kph
Max Speed: 36.8 kph
Max HR: 150
Total Ascent: 65 m
Track Data:
Ride Description: Mostly flat roads through farm counrty. The last bit into Matamata on a main road--way too much traffic.

Miranda Hot Springs To Te Aroha

Start:Miranda Host Springs (Holiday Park)
End:Te Aroha (Holiday park)
Time: 6:58
Ride Time: 4:37
Distance: 81.39 km
Av Speed:17.6 kph
Max Speed: 38.5 kph
Max HR: 147
Total Ascent: 160 m
Track Data:
Ride Description: From Miranda to Te Aroha via very flat back roads of the Hauraki Plains

Cockle Bay to Orere Point

Start: Howick (Peter & Ann's House in Cockle Bay, Howick)
End: Orere Point (Top 10 Holiday Park)
Time:6:25
Ride Time: 4:02
Distance: 66.93 km
Av Speed: 16.5 kph
Max Speed: 54.7
Max HR: 168
Total Ascent: 708 m
Track Data:
Ride Description: Ride from Howick to Orere Point via Botany, Manruera, Ardmore, Clevdon and Kawakawa bay.

Rocky Bay to Cockle Bay

Start: Rocky Bay, Waiheke Island (Tom & Christiane)
End: Cockle Bay, Howick (Peter & Ann)
Time: 2:30
Ride Time:1:06
Distance: 15.07km
Av Speed: 13.6km
Max Speed:52.0kph
Max HR: 176
Total Ascent: 952m
Track Data:
Ride Description: Fiirst Day ride from Tom & Christiane's house in Rocky Bay to Peter & Ann's house in Cockle Bay via the ferry from Kennedy Point to Half Moon Bay. Urban Streets and hills.

Just The Facts

This part of the New Zealand 2008 Journal will contain the daily minutae of my travels.

This will be such things as:

Start: Where the travel started this day
End: Where the travel ended this day
Time: The overall time spent from Start to End
Ride Time: How much time was spent riding
Distance: The distance traveled
Av Speed: My vaerage speed
Max Speed: My maximum speed
Max HR: My maximum heart rate
Total Ascent: The uphill climing only
Track Data: The links to the GPX and KML files of the GPS track of the day's riding
Ride Description: A short description of the route taken