Comments on: My New Toy (and a Bug Fix) https://www.barneyb.com/barneyblog/2007/07/25/my-new-toy/ Thoughts, rants, and even some code from the mind of Barney Boisvert. Thu, 11 Sep 2014 09:58:12 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 By: PaulH https://www.barneyb.com/barneyblog/2007/07/25/my-new-toy/comment-page-1/#comment-26739 PaulH Sat, 28 Jul 2007 04:02:37 +0000 http://www.barneyb.com/barneyblog/2007/07/25/my-new-toy/#comment-26739 it took me a couple of years to crack 100km (mind you i'm still riding a mountain bike though i tricked it out a bit w/malvic rims & hutchison tires--the tires are nice & light but wear fast & get punctured way too easily--and i lost 6++ months when i dumped my bike into a canal & blew out my right knee). i spend 90% of my time on country/farm roads these days so i'll switch to a real road bike as soon as i can bring myself to spend that kind of money on a "hobby" (decent road bikes here are expensive & the choice is pretty limited though trek has a "starter" that looks like a good value). it took me a couple of years to crack 100km (mind you i'm still riding a mountain bike though i tricked it out a bit w/malvic rims & hutchison tires–the tires are nice & light but wear fast & get punctured way too easily–and i lost 6++ months when i dumped my bike into a canal & blew out my right knee). i spend 90% of my time on country/farm roads these days so i'll switch to a real road bike as soon as i can bring myself to spend that kind of money on a "hobby" (decent road bikes here are expensive & the choice is pretty limited though trek has a "starter" that looks like a good value).

]]> By: barneyb https://www.barneyb.com/barneyblog/2007/07/25/my-new-toy/comment-page-1/#comment-26667 barneyb Fri, 27 Jul 2007 16:42:22 +0000 http://www.barneyb.com/barneyblog/2007/07/25/my-new-toy/#comment-26667 You metric cheater. Hmph. ;) I'm gonna see about doing a statute half century next month. I got started late in the season, so I'm playing it easy. My MB account is at http://bboisvert.motionbased.com/. Not much there yet, and I botched up a couple of activities by forgetting to reset between. I'm hoping to totally supplant it with my own stuff, but we'll see. At the very least provide some aggregation stuff that it doesn't provide. You metric cheater. Hmph. ;) I'm gonna see about doing a statute half century next month. I got started late in the season, so I'm playing it easy.

My MB account is at http://bboisvert.motionbased.com/. Not much there yet, and I botched up a couple of activities by forgetting to reset between. I'm hoping to totally supplant it with my own stuff, but we'll see. At the very least provide some aggregation stuff that it doesn't provide.

]]> By: PaulH https://www.barneyb.com/barneyblog/2007/07/25/my-new-toy/comment-page-1/#comment-26665 PaulH Fri, 27 Jul 2007 16:14:46 +0000 http://www.barneyb.com/barneyblog/2007/07/25/my-new-toy/#comment-26665 you need a sports medicine checkup for that sort of stuff (if you're *that* serious but you can guesstimate quite a bit of that). i've been trying to follow the advice here: http://www.cptips.com/intervl.htm http://www.ultracycling.com/training/training.html http://www.ultracycling.com/training/century.html we cheat a bit over here, our "centuries" are in kilometers ;-) btw what's your MB handle? mine's http://coldfusionpaul.motionbased.com/ you need a sports medicine checkup for that sort of stuff (if you're *that* serious but you can guesstimate quite a bit of that). i've been trying to follow the advice here:

http://www.cptips.com/intervl.htm
http://www.ultracycling.com/training/training.html
http://www.ultracycling.com/training/century.html

we cheat a bit over here, our "centuries" are in kilometers ;-)

btw what's your MB handle? mine's http://coldfusionpaul.motionbased.com/

]]> By: barneyb https://www.barneyb.com/barneyblog/2007/07/25/my-new-toy/comment-page-1/#comment-26557 barneyb Thu, 26 Jul 2007 18:37:15 +0000 http://www.barneyb.com/barneyblog/2007/07/25/my-new-toy/#comment-26557 The Training Center stuff isn't too bad. But no extensibility. One of the stats I'm most interested in is comparing cadence vs. speed vs. heartrate plots. For example, is it better to go over some segment X at 20 mph, is it better to be pushing a cadence of 80 or 90? Or if I want to climb hill Y with a heartrate of 170 bpm, what's the best speed/cadence ratio (and therefore gearing). There's so much to learn about what's happening, and what's really nice is that the dimensions are both easily enumerated and traced, which means the data mining side is straightforward (though not simple or trivial). It'll be fun. The Training Center stuff isn't too bad. But no extensibility. One of the stats I'm most interested in is comparing cadence vs. speed vs. heartrate plots. For example, is it better to go over some segment X at 20 mph, is it better to be pushing a cadence of 80 or 90? Or if I want to climb hill Y with a heartrate of 170 bpm, what's the best speed/cadence ratio (and therefore gearing).

There's so much to learn about what's happening, and what's really nice is that the dimensions are both easily enumerated and traced, which means the data mining side is straightforward (though not simple or trivial). It'll be fun.

]]> By: PaulH https://www.barneyb.com/barneyblog/2007/07/25/my-new-toy/comment-page-1/#comment-26555 PaulH Thu, 26 Jul 2007 18:28:16 +0000 http://www.barneyb.com/barneyblog/2007/07/25/my-new-toy/#comment-26555 i think you get that kind of functionality w/the paid subscription (i'm too cheap). i'm using a forerunner 205 & it's s/w (training center) does much of what i want for stats w/a spreadsheet doing the rest but i'm mainly obsessed w/single rides anyways--though these days i've been doing intervals & simply counting the speed spikes & their flatness. i haven't seen much improvement (except sprinting away from farmer's dogs) after 3 weeks. my century time's worse than before i started & last week i couldn't even finish one (came up 15km short). i think you get that kind of functionality w/the paid subscription (i'm too cheap). i'm using a forerunner 205 & it's s/w (training center) does much of what i want for stats w/a spreadsheet doing the rest but i'm mainly obsessed w/single rides anyways–though these days i've been doing intervals & simply counting the speed spikes & their flatness. i haven't seen much improvement (except sprinting away from farmer's dogs) after 3 weeks. my century time's worse than before i started & last week i couldn't even finish one (came up 15km short).

]]> By: barneyb https://www.barneyb.com/barneyblog/2007/07/25/my-new-toy/comment-page-1/#comment-26473 barneyb Wed, 25 Jul 2007 20:55:53 +0000 http://www.barneyb.com/barneyblog/2007/07/25/my-new-toy/#comment-26473 Paul, Yeah, MotionBased is a partial driver for what I envision. It's completely missing aggregated stats though, which are rather more important to me than the single activity stuff. Which isn't to say I don't want to know about individual rides, but seeing larger trends is my main interest. The individual stuff is more about having a lot of cool (and relevant) data to play with and visualize in cool ways. AIR's flat out - no Linux support. I'll keep using Flex for the visualization pieces I'd imagine, but the core UI might move to HTML. It's SO much easier to work with. Have to really understand what I want to be able to do, and then pick the best tech for the job. Paul,

Yeah, MotionBased is a partial driver for what I envision. It's completely missing aggregated stats though, which are rather more important to me than the single activity stuff. Which isn't to say I don't want to know about individual rides, but seeing larger trends is my main interest. The individual stuff is more about having a lot of cool (and relevant) data to play with and visualize in cool ways.

AIR's flat out – no Linux support. I'll keep using Flex for the visualization pieces I'd imagine, but the core UI might move to HTML. It's SO much easier to work with. Have to really understand what I want to be able to do, and then pick the best tech for the job.

]]> By: PaulH https://www.barneyb.com/barneyblog/2007/07/25/my-new-toy/comment-page-1/#comment-26472 PaulH Wed, 25 Jul 2007 20:46:04 +0000 http://www.barneyb.com/barneyblog/2007/07/25/my-new-toy/#comment-26472 see www.motionbased.com for some ideas. a flex/AIR app like that would be sweet. see http://www.motionbased.com for some ideas. a flex/AIR app like that would be sweet.

]]> By: barneyb https://www.barneyb.com/barneyblog/2007/07/25/my-new-toy/comment-page-1/#comment-26456 barneyb Wed, 25 Jul 2007 17:59:08 +0000 http://www.barneyb.com/barneyblog/2007/07/25/my-new-toy/#comment-26456 Yeah, one of the things I will be changing on the dashboard is to convert 'bike' to 'transport' or something, and then have categories. Because I want to put my motorcycle trips in too, just to record them. Yeah, one of the things I will be changing on the dashboard is to convert 'bike' to 'transport' or something, and then have categories. Because I want to put my motorcycle trips in too, just to record them.

]]> By: Matt Williams https://www.barneyb.com/barneyblog/2007/07/25/my-new-toy/comment-page-1/#comment-26455 Matt Williams Wed, 25 Jul 2007 17:49:38 +0000 http://www.barneyb.com/barneyblog/2007/07/25/my-new-toy/#comment-26455 Fun stuff. I've been thinking about the same model, but the ForeRunner version. I do some running too and would be able to go back and forth that way. Which makes me think I could actually use the Bicycle Dashboard to put in running data too. Just define a new bike as Nike. :) Fun stuff. I've been thinking about the same model, but the ForeRunner version. I do some running too and would be able to go back and forth that way.

Which makes me think I could actually use the Bicycle Dashboard to put in running data too. Just define a new bike as Nike. :)

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