The Crema and learning the Wahoo

Amber and I rode The Crema today - we hadn't actually sat down to eat there for some time. As the Wahoo did not perform well on the Santa Barbara Easy 200k brevet last week, I decided to take today to play with it a bit.

The weather started out cold with a strong onshore flow. Heavy clouds came in from the North and it looked like it might rain later.

Today is Superbowl Sunday so Huntington Beach hosted their regular Superbowl full and half marathons. This is a bit of a pain because even though they close PCH for the runners, they're still clogging up the beach path so it can get a bit frustrating. We're only supposed to ride at 5mph when there are pedestrians around but, if we did, the pedestrians would be running faster than us!

Somehow while we were eating the clouds went away and the sun came out. It was gorgeous on the way back.

There's no-one around him so I assume that means he's out front!

It seems if you start the Wahoo at the start of the ride, it navigates quite well. It even managed to figure out where we were when we were forced off course for a while by the congested beach path. If you stay off course too long it eventually gets upset and starts sulking and won't recognize when you're back on course. Always take a paper backup!

I'm in the middle of writing a Xamarin app that connects to rwgps and follows the route giving you cues. I've not done any Xamarin programming for a while and it's quite a challenge. I spent at least 4 hours trying to figure out how to get GPS permissions. Right now I'm trying to remember my high school trig classes because all the conversion from degrees to radians to meters is hurting my head. When you have 4000 line segments and a random point, how do you determine which line segment the point is nearest to? Quite tricky. Plus you have to do it on a low-end processor without melting it.