If you have a smart phone (Android or iOS), you can ride Wigley Perms with an eBrevet. This saves you all the trouble of collecting receipts from shops, cafes, or petrol stations, or frees you of the worry of your Garmin batteries giving out.
for all the ride if you are worried about battery life; it only needs to be on (with location services turned on) at each control. You only need mobile data switched on to download the eBrevet before the ride and to upload your completed eBrevet after the ride.
There is also the facility to customise your Perm ride. You can often reverse the direction of the ride, start at a different control, or specify your own start place. Or indeed any combination of these.
Add 'Wigley' as the Organiser name in the search box, click SEARCH, then select the 'base' route that you want to customise.
Click on the
customise this ride
button at the bottom of the page.
To
reverse the direction
of the ride, change
Reverse Route
to YES
To
change the starting control
, set
First Control
to the desired Control Number
To
set up your own start/finish point
, change
Set Start Location
to YES. Establish your exact start point by double clicking on the map, and then add the distance to the first proper control (you can get this figure from the route sheet). The app will then calculate all the other control distances.
NB Your start should be somewhere along the route, as you won't be given extra time for any added kilometres!
You can have any combination of the above (provided the Perm allows it)
Don't forget to click the
Save Brevet
button. Your ride will be saved with a
ride code
(1)
in the format
MW99-nnnnn-yyyymmdd
For a list of your saved customised rides go to
eb.audax.uk
and click on
My Account/My Custom Routes
.
Pending
Registered
Control out of time
Skipped
Finished out of time
During the ride
Make sure you have completed your Entry Form, paid your Entry Fee, and informed me of your ride date by text or email.
When you are at the start and ready to go, press the first
control
(2)
, then
register
.
Ride and repeat at each subsequent
control
(2)
. Don't forget to register the final control!
After the ride
Click on the
Menu / Upload ride
- you will need your AUK password and your mobile data.
You still need to send your Brevet Card back to me with the ride date completed and your name and address on the back
For a list of your successfully uploaded E-Brevets go to
eb.audax.uk
and click on
My Account / My Completed Event
Ride Codes:
Format
MW99
, such as
MW25
for the Elementary 50 (see list on the left).
For a customised E-Brevet, the full ride code will have a format of
MW99-nnnnn-yyyymmdd
where
'nnnnn' is your Membership number and
'yyyymmdd' is the date you first created this customised version.
At the control:
It can sometimes take a few seconds for your phone to 'catch up' with your location, so if the phone says you are not yet at the control, just cancel and try again. If it still says you're not at the control after a couple of tries,
that's
when you should check that you are in the right place!
If you're not at the control yet, continue until you are.
If you've missed the control you can SKIP it and try to convince the Organiser that your ride should still be validated.
Pending
Registered
Control out of time
Skipped
Finished out of time