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Tour of Wessex Announces Live GPS Tracking for all Participants

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Pendragon Sports the organiser of the Tour of Wessex have teamed up with Flaik event tracking to provide live tracking at this year's cyclosportive taking place from the 2-4 June starting in Somerton, the Ancient Royal Capitol of Wessex.

Somerton is located in the County of Somerset, South West England. This unique event amongst sportives covers three circular routes on consecutive days around Somerset, Wiltshire, Dorset and Devon. Participants can choose from a number of distances to suite all level of riders.

These include:
Saturday 2 June - 23 miles, 73 miles & 105 miles
Sunday 3 June - 117 miles
Monday 4 June 109 miles

The flaik™ Events live tracking solution is unique to the industry, offering an affordable solution providing real-time coverage of cycling events via Google maps.

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Competitors and spectators can view constantly updated leader-boards with performance statistics including;

· Speed
· Distance
· Vertical
· Time
· Laps
· Sectors

The results-boards are displayed on multiple monitors, creating excitement and involving friends and family in the action in a manner that was previously not possible. All results are calculated automatically.

Flaik also allows Pendragon Sports to increase the level of safety offered to all participants with the integration of the flaik™ GPS and course map, which broadcasts the location of every rider at all times ensuring a rapid response if necessary.

The flaik™ Re-Live Your Day feature enables course officials, participants and spectators the ability to view where each rider traveled on the course while at the same time indicating their real-time speed. Combined with flaik™ GPS-based checkpoints, it is possible to confirm in real-time which sections or gates a participant has ridden through and how long each section took. And will include times for each categorized climb.

Nick Bourne of Pendragon commented: "It will be an exceptionally memorable event this year with the ride taking place over the Jubilee weekend in the build up to the Olympics. The Routes remain the same as last year apart from the third and final stage which sees the introduction of a new Climb to the summit of Exmoor National Park."

Taking in some of the most beautiful countryside and landmarks on the UK, the event is open to anyone of any skill; those experienced cyclists or those getting into the sport who want to take part in a professionally run Sportive.

To take part either email info@pendragon-sports.com or visit www.tourofwessex.com