Saturday, July 26, 2008

graphing workouts

playing with the garmin 405 data, trying to find the best software to use. all require a workaround, because garmin didn't develop the 405 with the mac in mind, so for the time being i'm downloading to my roommate's laptop, then transferring the data. have tried garmin connect...it's pretty cool, and free. now i'm test-driving ascent, which is much cooler, but costs $40. i'm doing a free trial. i'm not sure what i can do with all this graphing, considering i'm a recreational runner/cyclist that aspires to mediocrity and middle-of-the pack finishes. but, the graphs look cool, and i was a math major, so graphs should be appealing to me.

here are 2 recent runs. the first is the 4th of July race, where we had decent running conditions (as good as they get in july in the desert) ...the red line is heart rate and the green line is pace...they're both pretty consistent throughout the race, signifying that i gave a solid all out effort for the entire run.



this is the run from last tuesday, a miserable morning with high humidity. you can see the red and green lines are divergent, signifying a horrible run. in fact, you can see where the run went to shit...at the 1 mile block, the lines cross converge. that was the cross-over point...the point during the run, when i realized it was a bad idea.



what kind of conclusion can i draw from these graphs?....running in 100F+ temps and high humidity sucks.

7 comments:

Louis Winthorpe III said...

They really don't have a lot for you to do out there, do they?

Keith said...

Not enought to require NA beef after 5:30, as if it's some magical number! And really, it'll be the day when arabic labelled fruit insignia cans become real beer -- not holding my breath -- what what was that rasberry stampted cans?

Anyway happy heat and humidity!

sonya said...

what do you mean, Louis? you were out there... what were you doing if you weren't graphing your runs?

Tucker said...

Hey, Hope all is well in the sand pit!

As for ascent, I have been using it ever since I purchased my edge 305. Yes, i paid the 40 dollars, and I will tell you it was worth it. The software is updated quite often and has never crashed or given me any grief. There is a great support foroum that many users give out ideas and wanted features. All and all I would suggest Paying for it. I use ascent on my mac, and allso sport tracks within a vmware fusiion windows xp running on my mac.

Stay safe!

Louis Winthorpe III said...

I worked out for an hour a day at lunchtime when I was out there. There wasn't enough for me to do there. When I asked for work, I had my head ripped off. So I did a lot of reading and working out...

Strap said...

why didn't you graph?

Louis Winthorpe III said...

I just kept mental goals (re: no graph).