GPS Exchange Format

Um, it depends with who I go with.

Uh, if I'm going with a tour organizer, they have the preset routes and the staff and I rented their bikes and, uh, and, uh, we're doing, uh, what are you, uh, I used to go, or I've been many times with is the company that actually it's a motor ventures and they're incredible because they're only a people that actually give you your GPX files.

And this is how I actually, my love for the navigation and the STEM come from, from them.

Because first two times when I went with that, I was completely useless.

I mean, I couldn't even read the GPX file.

Yeah.

And all what you need to do was stay on a purple line.

Yeah.

If anyone's interested, I recommend Jupiter Hikes.

He has a really good webpage of all the information and a GPX file, waypoints.

He consolidated six different... six different trails into one and all this information and like just entry entry points for like some of these canyons that you easily miss right and like what to look out for like some of the down climbing is like there's options to like bypass it if you're not comfortable with it and yeah so that information made it so

much easier for us sure Because it's notoriously, yeah, logistically quite a challenging trail, technically quite a challenge.

Not many, like 30 or something.

Wow.

There's no official GPX file for that, the Grand Canyon Traverse.

And it's just all about waters.

Um, but yeah, we definitely wanted to, tear up the Logos single track as much as we could.

And then I believe somebody put out a GPX file for a route that was, quote, for the FDSR boys, which really piqued our interest.

We definitely wanted to hit Dango Death March, which we did on Friday.

And Drew got to play matchmaker in a way and get us hooked up with Eddie Brewer, who is a local, I think he said he lived about an hour away, and he wanted to hit all the hard stuff with the dumb guys.

And, um, Just tons of information on there.

I had all Drew's routes populated.

There's literally a little window and you have all your GPX routes with a little eyeball on it and a toggle switch.

I want to see all of them toggle them all on.

If you don't have one on your pack already, you can take one at check-in.

And then you have to have a GPX file of the course on either your phone or your watch.

We used to give out paper maps, and then, you know, paper deteriorates with sweat, and if it's raining, it's, it's, it's never really fun to do paper maps.

So a course map needs to be on your phone with the GPX file, and we have all that linked on our handbook and in the emails.

If you need help with that, reach out.

We do have a video that walks you through how to load a GPX file, but I'm happy to hop on a phone call or a video chat if you need some help, uh, beyond what the resources we've already provided.

For the 10K, a little less gear.

You still need to have a cell phone.

You must submit a GPS track showing your start and end times and locations.

You must submit a GPX or KML file.

Various dedicated GPS devices work best through some smartphones and apps like Footpath app or Strava, and can work on shorter trips.

If you use Strava, you will need to convert your track to a GPX format and email it.

Your track must show your location at least every ten minutes.

More often is better, especially for shorter routes.

We'll see when they actually give you guys some GPXs and stuff to work with.

um because that'll be cool i imagine toby you're the sort of person that once you get the gpx you're looking all over the map for seeing what the gradients are like and stuff or do you not do that

yeah exactly yeah yeah i'll be looking at the segments if there are any i'll get whatever information i can yeah

Yeah, good call, good call.

We love Strava for the segments.

Yeah, I find Strava often is the easiest one because you can pan the whole way along the GPX and get the gradient at any point, which is super useful.

But, yeah, we'll be keeping track.

It's probably the major thing we've got left for the rest of the year on the trail running side.

... now, right? [laughs] Like...

But now you're like, okay, it, our, a lot of watches will take a, a GPX route.

Like back then a, a Forerunner 220 had nothing, right? Like you, you didn't have that ability to, to put a map on a, on a watch that'll give you turn by turn.

You know, Strava has like event pages with the maps built in.

Mm-hmm.

So you can turn all of that- Uh, GPX data.

That's a, a file type, GPX.

That's like a, you know-

Okay

the GPS standard file extension.

Um, into other stuff.

So I've been importing GPX files into Blender, which is a free 3D mapping...