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day 8 programming notes

weather seems unstable again this morning, and given the lack of waterproofing on my streaming gear I’m going to be pretty quick to call it. yesterday I shut down the stream entirely when it got heavy - today I’ll put it in BRB unless I’m reasonably confident it won’t fine up enough to get the gear out again.

should be live at about 10am (1pm NZT).

day 1 aftermath

hit some snags with the stream and app today, apologies to anyone who tuned in and found it saying 'back shortly' for 3 hours 🫠

tomorrow we start with a ferry. given the mobile coverage is roughly zero for a significant portion of that journey, I'll kick off the stream after I arrive in Shikoku. irrespective of reception strength, the bitrate seems to remain unstable, so if that continues I might end up just flagging the stream and capturing footage to put into some kinda vlog in the future. (we're a year out from big bike '25 and I still haven't gotten to doing one for that, so it could be a while 😅)

seems like I'm starting out with even worse fitness than last time, so wish me luck 🥲

it's that time of year again! the temps are rising, the sun is periodically shining, and I'm once again hauling my extremely unfit frame across Japan on two wheels.

this year we're doing roughly the reverse of big bike '25: heading south to Wakayama first, then crossing to Shikoku and circumnavigating the southern and western coast, followed by another run through the Shimanami Kaido and moseying on up the coast back to Osaka. my route plan puts it at about 1100km - a sizeable increase from last year, but spread over a full two weeks so I have a tiny bit more rest time.

my aim is to stream the majority of the trip, with basically the same setup as last year. the show starts on Saturday (11th April) at... probably around 11am local time (2pm NZT.) let me know if you tune in!

-G