Welcome!

Hey everyone, and welcome to the 24 Hours of Moab race blog! We're team Google Earthlings -- five Googlers who love mountain biking and will be headed out to 24 Hours of Moab October 14th and 15th.

We're not pro riders. In fact, none of us have ever competed in a 24 hours race before so we don't expect to win... but we do expect to have a good time. We put up this blog so we can tell everyone about our team and what we'll be doing at the race.

So far we still have a lot of planning left but one thing we do know for sure is that we're going to have a Google Earth booth and some free schwag to give out. We'll be bringing along some laptops with Google Earth so riders can play around and see what their home trails look like from space. We'll load up some flyovers of the 24 hours course and our team will be riding with GPS devices to keep track of our laps in real time. Other riders are welcome to swing by the tent any time to upload their race data as well. If all goes according to plan, we'll have internet access and be able to show everyone at home what's happening as it happens!

Until then, you can download Google Earth for free and check it out yourself. And Granny Gear even has even provided a course map KMZ!

Stay tuned for more...