In about a week I’ll be in California to crew for David Holt in the Race Across America. Outside magazine once rated this as the world’s toughest sporting event. I raced in 2006. Crewing will be much different than racing but I’m not sure it’ll be easier.
In addition to crewing, I plan to blog the experience as much as possible as we go. With David being on the bike for 20+ hours a day, I expect it will be challenging.
My father-in-law loaned me his T-Mobile card for internet access while we’re on the road. I’m not confident that it’ll work well especially in the southwest where we won’t be near cities for long periods. I’ve heard that Verizon is better for mobile internet access but I don’t want a 2 year plan.
I plan on using Twitter to post some updates. Twitter allows messages of up to 140 characters to be posted. One of the ways this can be done is by sending a text message. Before I leave I plan to put a widget in the right sidebar that will show my Twitter updates.
In addition to text blogging, I’m also going to be doing audio blogging. Jott allows posts of up to 30 seconds. Not only do they provide the audio, but they also convert it to text. I wonder what they’ll think I’m saying at 3 AM. I’ve also signed up with GabCast for longer audio updates. I haven’t had a chance to do any testing with it.
Anybody have any suggestions on other services I should check out? I have a basic cell phone so there’s not much I can do on it.
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I’m looking forward to your posts from the road. I always figured the RAAM was as hard on the crew as the racers. Also, I’m interested to see how the technology works out. Is your cell phone a camera phone? Maybe you can post pictures from it….
Good luck!
Gene