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Took about a year & half of trying and getting nowhere and lots of painful 1:3X:XX's, but today ran a 1:29:10 HM on a hilly windy course - finally sub 90! http://connect.garmin.com/activity/646786555
Completely pumped to break 1:28 on a flat course in March!
Here's the run... And Garmin says it was 57°!!!! This guy is a world class runner, placed 16th at Badwater this year. Before I knew him people would mention he was running around town in a parka and it was 60°. That was Badwater training. Today, I think he was just easing into fall!
Tomorrow is supposed to be another killer day -- hoping to do a loop of central park. We gotta take each one of these days as a gift. Winter is coming. Not in the "Game of Thrones" kind of way. But coming nonetheless!
This morning ran 22 miles in 3:34:42. 9:45 pace. That's my last long run before the Marine Corps Marathon. The achievement is that I felt great the whole way and didn't walk once! :)
I ran my first 5k yesterday! I was a lot less nervous than I thought I would be even at the starting line. It was Oatlands Invitational which, if any of you have been there is a pretty hilly course. I did better than I was thought I would and my final time was 24:28. With about 550 people in my race I finished around 440ish. I have my Garmin data here if you want to look.
I ran 3 miles in 22:39. I tell you, I set out in my mind that I wanted to beat 23 minutes and I actually did it. I was high on adrenaline for the rest of the day. Sub 20 5k here I come!
Ran the Chi Town 10k yesterday wanting to run sub 40 minutes (I had never run a 10k race, only 5k and halfs) and got an official time of 39:57.6, good enough for 10th overall and 1st in my age group. I could have run faster with a better course and more robust training, so I am pretty happy about it.
I made it up Asskicker Hill without walking. Sure, I was running 20 minute miles at some points, but there is 1,300 feet of climbing in three miles, so I feel like I have an excuse.
Broke 19 in the 5k dressed in a Santa hat and a penguin xmas jumper.
18:57 on my watch! http://connect.garmin.com/activity/653584079 - new PB!
Bonus pic: https://flic.kr/p/qr9Y9S
I've never paced a 5k this well before, especially on this course - I'm putting it down to my 8-10 mile mid week tempo that I've done over the last 5 weeks - I'm down from 7:25 pace to 6:50 and it is giving me a huge amount of strength in races.
It would be so cool, if Garmin sponsored a pro cycling team...
Then they could upload the data from their riders to some sort of site, and people could download them to their devices...
3rd place in a 10k run. It seems the fast people stayed home today because I got 3rd overall, 1st in age, with a 50:34. That is watch time, still waiting for the chip time to get posted. Edit 2: Chip time was 50:29.
Not a bad reintroduction to running after being out of it for about 10 years, and having to shed some weight gained due to parental leave and moving into a sedentary job. Now hopefully in Aug I can post on the Sunday thread with a good time for the 1/2 marathon I plan on doing.
Edit: Forgot to link my watch time.
From a computer, http://connect.garmin.com > login with your Garmin credentials.
On the left, Training > Courses. Here, you will draw the course you want to take. Once you're done, save it.
Now, on your phone in Garmin Connect, go to the three dots (More) > Training > Courses > click on the course you created > three dots > Send to Device.
edit: When creating the course, switch to the OpenStreetMap layer as it'll typically have trails where Google doesn't.
I'll start: I went out on what was supposed to be an easy 8K earlier this week. By the time I was warm, I realized that I'd been keeping a very decent pace, and my body didn't want to slow down.
By the time I got home, I had run 10K, and broken my PR by nearly two minutes for that distance (49:19 for the 10K, 49:36 for the entire run). Garmin data here. After having run a disappointing 10K race earlier this spring, this felt like redemption - because I know I could have raced faster with a proper warm-up, and an easier course.
And I wasn't at all tired when I got home: The day after, I still did my 5x5 intervals (on the dreadmill due to a mismatch between clothing and weather).
I have the Garmin Forerunner 305... which, by the way, is very cheap now. The software that comes with it provides a pretty good way to archive your data but isn't fancy. I've heard some good things about connect.garmin.com but have never used it. If you ever want a to add GPS to you gear, the Forerunner was the best peice of running gear I ever purchased.
There are a ton of apps out there that integrate with garmin data... I'm not sure how standardized it is though, so you may not have as many options with Timex.
I went to a running event where we ran around a lake with Santa hats, according to my watch it was 29km. I'm still dead tired and will go back to bed after eating some more :)
This week I ran 70.52km which is the most ever. It's amazing to see my progress: in all of September I ran 45km, in October 86km, in November 136km and it's only been one week in December and I've already done half of November's mileage! And it feels great! :)
garmin data here. I too was looking for anything sub 3 around 2:55 after last year's blow up. I think i drank too much before hand because i immediately had side stitches and they never went away. After mile 11 it became clear i was gonna do a lot of walking. Ended up with 3:29 (my slowest marathon ever as well) and my first one over 3 hours since 2009 (3:13, first race ever). I'm thankful though, I was very dizzy at the finish and I was probably another mile away from needing an IV in my arm. Respect the heat.
http://connect.garmin.com/activity/99632137 All the info about their actual ride. I ride with these guys on a regular basis and have never seen them crash through a mistake of their own. They are loud and let people in front, behind, and to the sides know what is happening and what moves they're going to be making. I trust them enough to sit inches behind them while riding together on a regular basis
Just destroyed my previous half marathon best by running a 1:45 today at the Stampede Road Race Half Marathon in Calgary, Alberta. Was so much fun, had a pancake breakfast afterwards. My Run!
28:23
http://connect.garmin.com/activity/76933196
This beats my official PR by 5 seconds and is slower than my unofficial PR by about 40 seconds. I'm pretty happy with it. I did a simple out-and-back on the lakefront trail (Chicago), and running south, I was getting hit by a pretty decent headwind. Turning around felt nice, but I was tired from the headwind and didn't maximize my use of the tailwind until a few minutes after the turnaround.
Mile splits were 9:03, 9:26, and 9:06 (with a slight kick for the last 0.1 mi). Again, given the wind and the fact I ran six yesterday, I'm satisfied. Good job, everyone else (especially Pactrina, who ran the same course with me this morning).
Minhas dicas:
Use camisetas do estilo Dry Fit para ir, você irá transpirar bem menos (Na centauro está 24,99, compre uma para cada dia da semana). Usar shorts do mesmo estilo ou Lycra própria para ciclismo também ajuda.
Aqui no meu trabalho também não tem chuveiro, eu uso papel toalha molhado para limpar o suor e seco para me secar antes de colocar a camiseta que levo para troca. Isso funciona muito bem para mim e o meu commute é mais longo que o seu, logo transpiro mais.
Saia de casa o mais cedo possível, o sol após as 8:30 vai fazer você transpirar mais.
Prefira marchas mais leves, mas não tão leves que te force um exercício aeróbico muito intenso.
Os motoristas querem te matar, sempre. Não pedale na contra mão e siga as leis de trânsito, isso vai fazer eles te respeitarem mais. Faça contato visual sempre que avistá-los e os faça perceber que você também é dono do espaço.
Use capacete e luvas!
Edit: /u/igorznt, serve para você também.
I ran 12 miles in 1:44:25
Im training for a half marathon, 2 weeks today in the DMZ in Korea. My PR is 1:47 , so I was happy with this run and hopefully I can get a new PR in two weeks!
http://connect.garmin.com/activity/214028795 - here is the run :)
Edited, put the correct reply above.
Day 1: http://connect.garmin.com/activity/93973960 Day 2: http://connect.garmin.com/activity/93973936 65 miles into day 2 my battery died so I lost the rest of the ride.
My training towards my fall marathon continues, and I've had a pretty terrific training week so far (with one run still to go). This week, I "celebrated" that by going on my longest run to date: 25 km (15.5 mi), in precisely 2.5 hours. I ran it early in the morning, in a depleted state, back-to-back with a 10K the night before, so while my pace was good for large parts of the run, I pretty much crashed at 19-20 km, but still finished in relative style.
Now: Dinner, a bit of rest and VO2max intervals.
It's not just a "dumb" backup to the cloud. The data in the cloud is basically the authoritative storage. This allows you to go to http://connect.garmin.com/ on a browser, it'll show you the same data, you can change it, add a route etc., and it will sync back to the phone & watch.
But yes that doesn't mean it couldn't be done in a way that the App works offline!
I PR'd in the half marathon.
I ran the Mud Dogs Half Marathon. I pushed myself harder than I have before, at that distance, and ended up with a time of 1:48:03!
Super pumped!
The promenade is awesome. Lots of runners and very flat so you can get some really fast miles. That's probably the safest in the city. I'm not sure how many miles you log a week but you can easily get a good 10 mile run out of running a loop of the promenade. There are also group runs a few nights a week. I recently started going to one in federal hill on Mondays and love it. I live up in charles village now so I run through Hopkins a lot and go to either druid lake or lake montebello. Here's my garmin profile if you want to see some good routes: http://connect.garmin.com/profile/obz7805
You're either being very clever or you're being really honest. Either way even with my limited french (from Toronto) you just made me laugh out loud with how you've butchered that phrase. poivre==pepper. pauvre==poor. In fact nearly every word is wrong in one way or another. It should have been , "Mon Francais est pauvre, donc par chance...".
Les dernières quatre années j'ai pris mes vacances au Québec (par velo) et j'ai rencontré plusieurs qu'on pris le temps de me comprendre.
So to all the partial french speakers, make the effort to speak french. Even if you butcher it, it can be funny and endearing. The article started out as a rant about people who can speak french but do not. That I imagine would be annoying.
Any idea behind the reasoning as to why http://connect.garmin.com switched from Google maps to Bing?
The largely unanimous outcry from the community to this has been largely ignored.
I'm not sure I understand your first question, but I have a Garmin Edge 605. My rides are loaded into Garmin Connect and then I use Photoshop to combine the tracks of each ride into one big map. It's quite a bit of work but I love the result.
I did the same thing this year on a Disney cruise. Got up early & ran laps around the upper deck. Because the ship was moving, I ran 7.82 miles in 23:15 or a 2:58 min/mi pace.
If you're an experienced road cyclist, definitely Bedford. If you're a not-so-confident rider with a mountain bike or hybrid, give Ocean Parkway a go. But don't go fast on Ocean Parkway--I ended up in the hospital that way one time because the pavement had a giant bump in it (yes, in the bike lane). Besides, as others pointed out, the multitude of roads on OP is confusing, better to stick with something simple.
I went around there a few times from Manhattan; this is sort of the final/best version of my route: http://connect.garmin.com/activity/119234674 .
Funny you asked because I did it for the first time yesterday. I only did 50 so I can't tell you how the additional 25 out are.
I took it easy going out since I had no idea how bad it would be then stopped after 5 coming back (30 total) and took a quick break. A little after that someone passed me on a tri bike and I decided to just go with him so that last 20 miles was significantly faster than the rest.
Overall the hills were completely fine and the grading was super minimal. I think a single speed was definitely doable where I went. The best to me was the lack of sharp turns. Speed wise you can maintain pretty high speed (there wasn't a posted speed limit but the website said there was one...but didn't say what it was) as long as you aren't a dick to pedestrians, which there aren't a lot of past 5 or 6 miles out.
Definitely water and bathrooms on the route if you need it.
Here's my ride with elevation and stuff: http://connect.garmin.com/activity/492032297
So Sunday was my birthday, and I didn't have any commitments for Monday, so I decided to make the most of it, rode from Weston out to Eastbourne, and back again, via Central London (first time in traffic like that, hairy!). Looking forward to more trips on two wheels!
Rode with my Garmin Edge, so have tracks of my travels too!
http://connect.garmin.com/activity/429662250 http://connect.garmin.com/activity/429662163
My steed is in for new shoes tonight, as the last set were on their last legs.
Ran a PR in the 10k during a "trail" run last week. It was a mixture of mostly paved path, bombed out firebreak, and a cow pasture. I ended up running it in 1:01:02. I am pretty stoked, especially since I was running with a strained Achilles tendon. Link to Garmin results
Garmin Forerunner 310XT -- GPS wristwatch. I have the timer set for 5 minute countdown and it starts storing my tracks. I also use it for hiking and swimming, or anything else outdoors. My old GPS was always out of arms reach when I needed it while sailing, and I lost it last year when I broke a hobie 16... the port hull folded about 6' in from the bow. Garmin has a great auto-upload, and cool tools online for playing back your tracks. The Forerunner is used by triathletes, so it's waterproof as well. Here are the tracks from a small boat race I did earlier this year: http://connect.garmin.com/activity/87109223
I'll begin: I had my first marathon-paced run today, and while I haven't done the maths properly, I've PR-ed by about nine minutes, from 1:57:17, to a low 1:48. RunKeeper or Garmin Connect data as you please. Now: Chocolate milk, shower and bed. I've deserved it. (Edit: I input it into Endomondo, and it says 1:48:36)
Last week, I had a setback. This week, I'm happy to say I've recovered:
- I've had my toughest workout yet. 18.37 km (11.4 mi), with 48 minutes spent at LT. Towards the end of the last LT interval, I felt dying was an adequate option.
- I've had my longest run to date, 26.28 km (16.3 mi). Incidentally, this is also the longest I've ever run in my VFF's - prior to this, my longest run in them was ~15 km (9 miles).
- I've had my longest week, totalling 74.24 km, in about 7 hours. Easier than I imagined when I set my target mileage before starting this training plan.
- Best of all: My metatarsals feel better now than they did during my setback week.
It's fun to run along the north waterfront - since it's on the coast there aren't any intersections to slow you down. I often run from Aquatic Park, through Fort Mason, past the Marina, through the Crissy Field in the Presidio, over to Fort Point, and sometimes over the Golden Gate Bridge and back.
Here's the loop that I just described: http://connect.garmin.com/activity/76583518
Be sure to touch hopper's hands if you run to Fort Point!
Oh man i got my ass kicked! Wave 1 corral 1 goal 2:45, ran 2:58. second slowest marathon of my life lol. cut some corners with all the other stuff going on second semester senior year of college. paid for it dearly. embarrassing considering i live 3 miles from Newton... oh well.
http://connect.garmin.com/activity/80051608
http://connect.garmin.com/activity/762575151
See above, but I did 5.29KM in 30mins! So bloody pleased. I seem to be making better progress in these final weeks now my fitness is better.
I couldn't even finish some of the earlier weeks. I'm so pleased! 2 more runs left to graduation.
Also good luck to everyone else's runs!!!
If you know your resting HR and your max HR you can calculate your HR-zones. Once you've done that, you can look up HR based training plans. Garmin has some good HR-based training plans on their website.
If you don't know your HR zones you could check out this reply I just made under another post.
Good luck!
From the Bronx to Brewster you can ride on protected bike trails which are paved and beautiful almost the entire way! I did this three years ago: http://connect.garmin.com/modern/activity/168617288
It takes a lot of work to get accustomed to an efficient stride, which is nearly impossible without 1) adequate flexibility, 2) a cadence of probably 175+, and the supporting cardiovascular health and strength to support running that way. A marathon is a really long distance and even the best runners often lose form near the end; noobs like us can often only make it a few miles before things go south.
It probably seems ridiculous, but what has been the most help for me over the past year is running on a treadmill. Essentially, completely controlling the environmental variables so I can focus entirely on form. /u/captain_carrot below mentions "swiping" the ground and this is something I do, too, sometimes. When you are landing correctly and not overstriding, you will be able to tell: your feet land under your hips, your torso is straight and perhaps leaning slightly forward, and head & neck are upright and loose, and your ground contact time will be <200ms and your vertical oscillation will be <10cm. Take a look at my run from lunch today, a treadmill 10k: http://connect.garmin.com/modern/activity/613177585
You can see that everything is pretty stable and steady state, but unremarkable, for the first 40 minutes. Just an easy run (and not with really great form. Look at my cadence and oscillation). At that point, though, I turned things up a notch and finished with a few minutes of 180+ cadence and nearly flat striding. It was very obvious it was working muscles and tendons in different ways.
Ran my first ever race at the Bristol Half Marathon today in a time of 2:07. Pretty happy with that as I had lost out on a bunch of training due to a small illness. Knees are killing but was really good experience and would 100% do it again.
http://www.runbristol.com/Results/default.aspx?r=18&bib=26014 http://connect.garmin.com/modern/activity/595571405
x-post from /r/running earlier:
Ran ~8.5 miles with a running group this morning. It was my farthest distance in quite a while. Pretty happy about my pace as well.
Both json texts are perfectly valid. If you want to output it pretty-printed, use something like this:
import urllib import json
url = 'http://connect.garmin.com/proxy/activitylist-service/activities/jen.bike?start=1&limit=1' structure = json.load(urllib.urlopen(url))
print json.dumps(structure, sort_keys=True, indent=4)
This will output:
{ "activityList": [ { "activeLengths": null, "activityId": 479172839, "activityLikeDisplayNames": null, "activityName": null, "activityType": { "parentTypeId": 17, "sortOrder": 8, "typeId": 2, "typeKey": "cycling" },
<SNIP>
"userRoles": [ "ROLE_CONNECTUSER", "ROLE_FITNESS_USER", "ROLE_CONNECT_2_USER" ] } ], "filter": { "endTimeGMT": null, "excludeUntitled": false, "favoritesOnly": null, "groupProfileId": null, "includedPrivacyList": [ 1 ], "startTimeGMT": null, "subscribeeIds": null, "subscribersOnly": false, "userProfileId": 5057976 }, "pagination": { "limit": 1, "start": 1 }, "requestorRelationship": "GUEST" }
I do, I run those! Surprisingly the place I've seen the most deers (a quick bow to Marisa Tomei in My Cousin Vinnie) was along mass ave near the trail entrance on the east side of the street, by the Kahlil Gibran memorial (also a great place to take a quick pee out of sight, if you're on otherwise very-public Mass ave).
edit I should add that there's a very nice loop up the GA trail all the way to near tenley circle, and then pretty much directly east on and off trails and roads until you hit the rock creek park trail, and then you can run down that, along K street in gtown, onto the bike path and back to the entrance to the GA trail. a fun 10 miler that's mostly trail.
So I managed 16.1km (or about 10 miles) and this was my course.
Overall a fun event, weather was OK (14°C and a bit windy, but while running it was OK), the only thing that pissed me off was that it took me 1h34 to run to my finish point, and about the same time on a bus to get back to the start. The driver didn't really seem to know what he was doing!
The global winner completed more than 78km in Austria, on what I imagine is a pretty hilly course. Congratulations to him and to everyone who ran!
I use the web browser version of garmin connect.
On there you can do just about anything then sync it to your watch when you plug it in to charge off the computer. Only recently the connect app for Android was even useable on the 220, so I am still learning its abilities. On top of that, the connect system is being overhauled so expect major layout and design changes in the next few weeks.
Open web tools on chrome/firefox and examine POST request that gets made when you try to log in.
Then use something like requests to make the POST request, docs here: http://www.python-requests.org/en/latest/user/quickstart/#more-complicated-post-requests
I think this (using built in urllib) should also work:
>>> import urllib >>> params = urllib.urlencode({'username': "your_username/email", 'password': "your_password"}) >>> urllib.urlopen("http://connect.garmin.com/en-US/signin", params)
I own a Fenix, and it has never gotten 50 hours—even with a reduced data collection rate. At Leadville last year I carried a USB battery pack and charged the watch during the race so that I could get a continuous capture. And on really cold days (single digits F), I've had the watch crap out after 6-7 hours at the default sample rate.
Instantaneous pace tends to be all over the place on any GPS unit, even a dedicated running watch. Here is a recent run of mine captured by my Garmin 305 on basically ironing board-flat terrain with steadily increasing speed. I know for a fact that my pace wasn't all over the place -- it was controlled and steady -- but if you look at the Timing graph, it looks like I was walking, then crawling, then sprinting, then hopping, then dancing, then back to jogging. Instantaneous pace calculations suck. Go by feel, and if need be, consult the smoothed calculations for your split and do some guesstimating in your head (e.g., if the split pace is reading 9:30 and it goes up to 9:20 over a few seconds, I know I've sped way up.)
I ran my longest run training for my first marathon a week or so ago. 20.9 miles in 2:47. I had two Gu's, some Gu chews and water during the run which by mile 17 were all gone. About mile 18 things started to really hurt and although I wouldn't say I'd hit the wall just yet, I could see it in the distance. I'd never done much "self-talk" before but the last 3 miles I just kept repeating out loud "Now it's just you and what you're capable of doing..." Got me through till I reached the brewery I was ending my run at. The beer took over from there.
Damn. The hills, combined with my shitty bike, and being a bit hungover brought my average down to about 24kph. I like to think I did fairly well though.
I just finished my first four day tour via road bike last night. I have the opportunity to go with another redditor on the transam to Oregon in May. While my gearing won't be too awesome, I am fully confident my physique will by the time I hit real, actual mountains.
My bike handles great (maybe my experience with it helps) but everything was 60-70 lbs overall.
My rear wheel is 20 spoke, but I have put it through the ringer many a time with out it even thinking of coming out of true. (they are Rolf Vector Comps after all...) I put 200+ miles and 6300+ feet of climbing with that load, which absolutely blows away anything I have ever done previously.
Ended up doing my first actual century because I felt like hitting MORE hills and at least 60 more miles. (My tour was actually over by the first 40 miles or so of my century ride as linked) First century my previous best was 65 miles and 1750 feet of climbing last May pushing a 22ish lb bike over a lot of rolly polly ez pz fast rollers instead of 6-8% hills and 1/4th to 1/2 mile 2-4% mountains.
Yesterday's 1,200ft of climbing kicked my butt, but they were condensed into like 5 miles. The ride to get there and the ride back was fine... I just suck at climbing.
EDIT: link so you can all make fun of me.
Here is a tip if you want to know the distance for a large event. Log on to the garmin connect website and search for it like so.
Take the average of a few complete runs and you get a pretty good idea. In this particular case it seems that indeed, the half marathon was a bit too long. Most readings are around 21.7km.
It's certainly disappointing if you missed a PR due to this. But on the bright (couldn't resist) side, this is just a half : go out and run one again in a week or two and you'll make that PR for sure.
Personally I love my Garmin Forerunner 410. It's got GPS too and makes these neat datasheets: http://connect.garmin.com/activity/147222069
Though I suppose Nike+ has neat graphs and stuff too. There's a lot more ANT+ addons out there than Nike+ though, imo.
btw, I realized that as a certified tri-geek I have a GPS log of the recent blowup I described. This is a bonk, and it sucked.
I run with a bottle belt that has room for phone & supplies. Around here, I can't count on getting water anywhere on my runs (drinking fountains are all turned off in winter and I don't run in convienience-store rich areas) and I can't bear running with a bottle in hand, so it's really not optional for me. Your milage may vary.
Are you going on the north side via Trois-Rivieres?
If so there are some great restaurants in Trois-Rivieres, along the main street, Rue-des-forges. And if you're doing it all in one day then its also your last chance to get a great meal before Quebec City. I still remember a salad I had there called "bleu bleu bleu", which had Blue Cheese, blue berries and something else blue (maybe a bottle).
There's a crazy steep hill here as you cross the 138 from "Chemin Vieux" over to "Rue du Roy", near Neuville. I make a point of going that hill up each time I pass through. (I'm pretty sure you could avoid it and stay on the 138, but it's a fun challenge.
The first time I hit that hill I had to unclip and start again part way up (no walking just had to change gears and regain my balance). Never again. The last time two pedestrians said "bravo" as I past them with momentum to spare.
Here's the route I took most recently, which enters Quebec city from the north side along the 138. It passes by a few more cheap hotels before getting downtown, but going right along the fleuve following Chemin Sait Louis and Grande Alle, is my favorite route.
Nothing special:
9.93 km on Tuesday http://connect.garmin.com/activity/89344125
Gym workout Wednesday: 20 min on the treadmill and some weights.
9.63 km on Friday http://connect.garmin.com/activity/89344125
18.19 km today. Slow, slow pace. http://connect.garmin.com/activity/90376818
We went up there about 2 years ago and I didn't know about the knobby tire rule either. Thankfully they gave me a break and let me go up (MTB frame with semi-slick tires).
The initial climb is about 1400 ft over the course of two miles (TOUGH climb, especially with 30 lbs of gear). After that there are a few miles of paved road heading to the airport. We broke off and headed down Middle Canyon Road which is a well groomed dirt road. Almost all downhill from there with a few annoying climbs as you approach Little Harbor.
From Avalon to Little Harbor took us about 4 hrs (return trip was 8 minutes quicker). Round trip of 31 miles. Garmin data!
I would do it again in a heartbeat!
(Psst, I do a post every Sunday that sort of competes with this, see here and here.)
Me? I participated in the world's biggest relay race, I think some odd 30000 people, ran the 4th leg, and am pretty pleased about it. Garmin data here.
Omg, I <3 my forerunner 305. It does charts and graphs and stuff, makes running almost like a video game.
wardsac, the forerunner makes data for your outings that looks like this. The "HRM" is a strap that goes around you, just below the nipple line, tracks your heart rate on the gadget. Forerunner 305 w/ hrm is a fun toy/tool that encourages you to stay the course. Maybe make it a reward for achieving your first month (or whatever) of scheduled workouts?
If you use the Garmin ANT, then I believe it automatically uploads to your Garmin Connect account.
You can then export in TCX, GPX or KML format. It includes TrackPoints that have the heart rate as part of it.
As an example, see my workout.
I have the Forerunner 305. It comes stock with the heart rate monitor and you can get the cadence sensor and the bike mount for fairly cheap on amazon. I just got the cadence monitor for christmas, but if you want to see how it does tracking stats, here is a 114 mile mountain bike I did last year with the heart rate on.
http://connect.garmin.com/activity/45695466
I should also note, the forerunners are great for triathlons. With a quick button press you can change your GUI from "Bike" mode to "running" mode which all have different options. For biking I show my Speed, Time, Distance, and heart rate. For running I show distance, heart rate and pace (minutes per mile). Works like a charm.
I second the 305. I've had mine for nearly 2 years and it's still going strong. I used the Nike+ previously, and found that I was getting varied/inaccurate results. With GPS technology and data capabilities, I would recommend splurging for the Garmin. The 305 is a few years old, so is relatively cheap (currently ~$130, though I've seen it for <$100 on sale in recent months). From a functionality standpoint, it contains nearly the same features as some of the newer, more expensive models (which typically run ~$300-400). The Garmin site has a nice side-by-side comparison chart if you want more detail.
They also pair it with a great website, where you can upload your data (via USB), set goals, track your progress through reports and so on. Has tons of visuals (maps, graphs, charts, etc) and analyzes your data based on a number of different variables.
One downside of the 305, though, is that it's fairly complex. It's extremely customizable, so can be a tad overwhelming at first glance if you're looking for something relatively simple. But once you get the hang of it, it's fairly quick and intuitive.
Trinewbies has free training plans for beginners.
Garmin Connect also has a few training plans that you could use for free. Although, I think these may work best with a Garmin watch and a heart rate monitor so ymmv.
I decided to start training for a sprint tri a few weeks ago and have been using a combination of the two.
Good luck!
IIRC, Motion Based became Garmin Connect. To get data from the 305 to Connect, you'd need to install Garmin Express.
ETA: Once you've got that set up, you can connect other websites (like Strava and Training Peaks) to your Garmin Connect account, so any data uploaded to GC is automatically synced to them as well.
http://connect.garmin.com/modern/activity/911795629/share/0?lang=English&t=1443485183415
Here's my data, it's a little messed up as it was my first time using my edge 520 and didn't enter the wheel size properly
Here is a random version of the route that I found on garmin. It looks like they zigzagged all over the beginning part. I think when I have done it in the past its ended up being about a 5 mile loop but there are little trails cut everywhere so you can make it long or short.
You can park in the left parking lot right where the car by its self is on this map The trail head is hard to see but it just up and to the left on where that car is.
You end up running kind of along US1. Mountain bikers have made tons of wood structures for them and I guess you can get all parkour if that's your thing.
Sunday I completed my first triathlon! Sprint distance, 1:29:59, M24
My goal was 2hrs so when I realised I could possibly make 1:30 I managed to pick the pace up a bit :) It was about 30*C when we started at 8am, would have been closed to 36*C by the end. People were collapsing from the heat all over the place :(
Absolutely hated the swim, of my category I was second last out of the water, picked up one person on the bike and finished 18/20 of the under 25 males.
I did the same ride (as part of a longer trip). The GPS map is here: http://connect.garmin.com/modern/activity/83352435
I'll just tell you tips from what I remember of this specific journey. I did it in two days, but on the first day I started in the afternoon and I arrived around the same time in Cape May, so the whole thing was 24 hours including sleeping and eating a few times.
- The ride through Camden is pretty sketchy looking but actually fine. I wouldn't recommend it alone, and I wouldn't recommend stopping, just ride through. You probably either know this already, will ride around it due to your start location, or both.
- Very quickly as you head south the road gets much quieter. The roads I took are incredibly flat, straight, and smooth. Like, world-class for straightness and flatness. :) Good if you like drafting, bad if you like excitement. We made good speed here.
- In Buena, just before my track leaves route 40 for Tuckahoe Rd, there was a quite decent hotel, the Budget Lodge Buena. When I was there four years ago, the front desk guy was very nice, the place was recently renovated and very, very clean, and it cost $48. Google Street View shows the same price today. There is a Burger King open for breakfast across the road--if you pass it you have missed the hotel by a little bit.
- From Buena it's more flat and straight. But since you are planning so far in advance, why not try to work in the Millville Air Field Museum? https://plus.google.com/116600782975314706455/about - I wanted to go but it wasn't open on the day we happened to be nearby. It's not far out of the way.
- Once you get to the very SW corner (Seagrove Ave) there is a wetland wildlife refuge for birds and so on. It's worth a quick look, however...
- One of the main sights to see for many visitors is the Cape May lighthouse. And the ladies that run it do not mess around at closing time. I got there five minutes too late and they refused to let me in at all!
Where'd you park? On Falls or at the Park & Ride or by the Dam? It is a nice trail. I see people walking dogs, running, walking with kids or just exploring like you. Here's my last run:
http://connect.garmin.com/modern/activity/591661178#.VEWbuY13tjs.reddit
I took my time and did it in 6 hours... I probably sat around for ~2 hours just taking pictures and enjoying the scenery. Here's a link of the route and other details. Mills Lake is nearby and really awesome too... and Black Lake is a little further but also really nice.
Less than 2 weeks out from major disappointment (in the form of a charlie-horse in the insole causing a DNF in my big race for the year), I had probably the best run of my life on Thursday: http://connect.garmin.com/activity/608803472
10.33 miles with 3,500 feet of elevation change on rocky trails, and 9:36 per mile. Makes me feel a bit better about that race!
Here is something for comparison: http://connect.garmin.com/activity/597497599
I use a heart rate monitor and speed/cadence sensor on my Garmin 810.
I ride a heavy touring bike, and weigh 280lbs myself.
Actually burned more that I ate on this specific ride. Sadly I have not been on the bike NEARLY as much as I would like this summer due to massive upgrades going on that I am in charge of at work (on one of the worlds largest musical fountains).
I can vouch for my recently purchased Forerunner 10. I hardly feel it on my runs and it gives pretty accurate data if you compare it to online tools like runningmap etc.
Here's a example of the data you get from it (still new to running!) http://connect.garmin.com/modern/activity/554021059
hey, i did 13 miles today as well (you beat me by .5). even with that extra .5 you still killed my time. my slow shuffle
thanks for sharing your spreadsheet.
Forefoot is ideal if you can do it. Don't hit with your heels. Minimize the amount of lateral roll as you hit. The most important thing for me was to make sure my feet and legs were pointing forward through the gait cycle. My left foot was literally hitting at ~40 degrees counterclockwise from straight, and I had immense pain in my feet and leg joints as a result. It's silly, but I mainly try to imagine that my feet are the ends of spokes on an imaginary wheel centered somewhere around my mid-thigh.
I used the plans available on Garmin Connect and use a Forerunner 620 + HRM-Run to keep track of heart rate and intervals. (disclaimer: I work for Garmin, but I'm just telling you about my experiences. You're free to do what you want!)
I went to http://connect.garmin.com/explore/training-plan after logging into my Garmin Connect account and clicked on the "Heart Rate" button to filter to only the heart-rate-based plans and added the 10K <3 Level I plan to my calendar. they have 5K, 10K, Half, and Full plans at varying intensities. I was then able to (with a surprising amount of effort) download that calendar to my device and have it walk me through the workout each day. Usually the workouts are simple enough that it's more luxury than necessity to have the watch walk you through, but it was really nice.
I've looked around for other heart rate training plans, but in my cursory search I didn't see anything that was as dead-simple to set up as Garmin's.
One thing to note is that if you're doing heart-rate zone training, it's important to figure out what your zones are. The defaults for me were actually kind of skewed, and I wasn't pushing myself hard enough in lower zones and was pushing too hard in the harder ones. A calculator like this one can help, and you can further refine those zones. I found that the "Karvonen Modified" zones seemed to match best with my experience.
There's a garmin connect group for reddit runners: Here
You can add me if you want: My Profile
I rode from midtown Manhattan to the center of New Haven, around the "town square" and to the train station (Metro North). If you want to avoid city riding in NYC just take the Metro North from an intermediate station. Or turn around halfway and go back.
Equipment, just a tube, patches, pump, and small lights to bike home after the train ride back. Cash for food. Water.
Don't mind at all. Here's my GPS. We split it up over a couple days. Here are a few pic's along the way. Super nice up there. Next time I'll have to get up on top of Mt Alice or Chief's Head
On my ride yesterday I couldn't stop thinking about how awesome my fades would be if I wore my jeans. Then I decided I value the skin on my legs too much to do that.
I have one of those too! Only mine is when i was smacked by a car that decided he was sick of waiting at a red light right as I was in front of him. Check out the speed instantly drop and the heart rate instantly shoot through the roof.
http://connect.garmin.com/activity/400549065
Yes, while it looks like i was going against traffic, I was in fact on the MUP and designated bike route into town (the Bike route follows US31 on the east side only and is one of two designated bike routes between the drawbridge and this intersection where you can then pick up the normal bike lanes; riding on 31 is illegal since it has a 70 mph speed limit north of this intersection). I did have the signal to proceed.
http://connect.garmin.com/group/162170
This should link to the Garmin Connect group: Runners of Reddit. Open for everybody to join :)
EDIT: I'm an idiot, didn't read that first part of your post. Add me if you want: Garmin Connect
Your heart rate goes up for starters!
I've done 3 races in 3 weeks. I've used a HRMonitor on all of them and in order, they've got hotter from 7 degrees through to a sunny 18 degrees -
http://connect.garmin.com/activity/491791174 (5k, undulating course on trail surface)
http://connect.garmin.com/activity/497223408 - flat road course (5m)
http://connect.garmin.com/activity/501662351 - very flat road course (10k)
As you can see, the hotter it is, the high my HR. My HR averaged 172 bpm (peak of 180 briefly during an incline) in a 19:50 5k in cool weather. However my 20:55 5k split on a hot 10k saw me average in the 180's, peaking at a whopping 186-7 bpm before i was half way through the race.
Heat hits some harder than others, and it wrecks me. Heart rate goes through the roof!
Hey!
I took part in a hackaton last week and had to use a jSON call to get some data for the weather and it looked like the one you linked. I didn't find it difficult to extract the info I need even if it wasn't styled!
The page is a big dictionary, you need to go through it by using keys. Say you need the calories you burn what you need to do is 1) Locate them in the file (CTRL + F) and see where they are. 2) See their "parent dictionary" and use the keys as a tag. Reorganizing will help you visualize it a bit better, nothing more.
I'll go ahead and help you out with using that info without extracting it into a csv file or something weird. If you want to do it yourself, just disregard this part of the comment or come back to it later.
jSON data is usually a dictionary with other dictionaries nested in it. The trick here is that after you call the 'activityList', you're not inside another dictionary but rather inside a list with just 1 element which contains all those other infos inside a dic. This means that you have to:
- Open 'activityList' using the dic key
- Access the other dictionary by accessing the 0th element of the list
- Call the infos you need with dic keys again
In case you want the calories the code is this:
from json import load from urllib2 import urlopen
read = urlopen('http://connect.garmin.com/proxy/activitylist- service/activities/jen.bike?start=1&limit=1') #Open the URL data = load(read) #Load it with json calories = json_obj['activityList'][0]['calories']
print calories
If you have any question, I'm here!
The option to create and view groups doesn't seem to be available on the new "Modern" Garmin Connect interface yet. I just created a group using the old interface:
http://connect.garmin.com/group/648741
Message me if you'd like me to transfer ownership of the group.
I had a force and was in the process of doing an exchange because my band had broken (plastic piece under the screen). They cancelled my return because of the out break..
In order to sync you just open the app and hold the button down for a few seconds until it says sync. There is also a PC/MAC program but i don't use that.
The device can be taken off the band, i like this because if the band breaks or get dirty you can change it.
You can sign up for the Garmin site here http://connect.garmin.com/
You step goals change daily (from what i can tell its based on the prior day)
If your HRM is reading 180-190 but you are feeling like you are exercising at a moderate pace, it's possible that your chest strap is giving false readings.
Take a look at my heart rate on my latest run. Note that it's really high for the first 5 minutes, then drops down into the 150-160 range, except when I was running uphill. My HR wasn't actually that high to begin. The reading for the first 5 minutes was artificially high because my HR strap wasn't damp enough, and my shirt was generating static electricity that inflated the reading.
If you can talk in complete sentences while your HRM reads 180-190, odds are that the number is off. Try wetting the strap before you run; if that doesn't help, use saliva (the electrolytes help with conductivity) or cardio gel. If your shirt is wool or synthetic, try dampening it a bit too where it touches the strap.
Ok, so I've not been for a swim in a while because i've been working on running cadence mostly but here's a swim from a bit ago where I do a mile in a 25m pool at 1:35 per 100m:
http://connect.garmin.com/activity/439897829
On average I do 9 strokes a length. I'm not sure where that compares to really top flight guys but 20 seems ... lots? I'm not sure how efficient the pull can be if your stroke count is that high.
Not just for LA, but for any area: pull up the route planners on Garmin Connect and/or Strava. They both have "heatmap" features that will show you the most common places people ride or run in the area of the map you're looking at. It's a seriously great way to plan rides to try out in new areas.
The 210 supports all the features u\veryoffensivename mentions-
You need
- Garmin ANT agent
- Register for an account at with http://connect.garmin.com/
- Use CopyMySports to sync Garmin Connect with Runkeeper or Strava
Your current method seems to work well, but you can use this as well if interested.
Just run. If you feel okay pushing it, just do it.
Your heart rate will naturally come down as you get into better shape. Everyone's heart is different, so adhering to strict values for thresholds is a little silly. If you're at 183 and your body isn't in pain, you've probably got plenty to give. A big part of training is finding your limits. I end most of my runs around 200 while getting back into shape but my max probably decreases as I get more in shape to around 195. But if I look at my heart rate profile after my runs, I can see that it increases more slowly when I'm in better shape, which is why we can run further and further and feel less tired.
My girlfriend can't push much above 181 but her pace has gone from around 12:30 / mile to now under 10:00 / mile and her heart rate is usually topping 165. She's tired enough to want to cry at 180-185 while I'm pretty comfortable at the same HR. My max is probably close to 207 or higher and I'm 31. Just another example of how different we all are.
Here's an example of my HR in June
Here's an example of my HR today
you need to eat a lot..... its hard work, all day.
I'm 240lb, love to hill walk and unless I eat something like a cliff bar or a handful of nuts every 60-90 minutes, plus a large lunch at half way then I'm in a world of trouble. And although the way down is easier, it's not entirely easy, if you get hungry and tired then that's when accidents can happen.
I found one I wore a garmin for that sounds a bit like yours - http://connect.garmin.com/activity/186577544
it says I burnt 2,500 cals just during the 7.5 hours of the walk.
TL:DR - you need to eat A LOT!
Finally ran my first Marathon in Florence, Italy. I kept my planned pace of 5'30" m/km and had the strenght to run the last 4/5 km under 5' m/km.
Finished in 3h53'51". Nothing special I know but I am quite proud.
I use Garmin Connect. I tried Strava but I was just too used to the Garmin site. If I want to generate even more detailed graphs than the site provides I export my tracks as csv files to Excel.
Also, for detailed comparison of different routes and runs I use the Garmin desktop app, Training Center.
you mean during the climb?
dont know if you see the whole ride, with 50km before the climb, there are some 230 peaks, these datas are not right
But during the climb everything is allright, 170average. some 185peaks. I started only 1 year ago with sports,did nothing until the age of 20... lost 60lbs before, so thats why my hearrate is pretty high all the time.
Garmin Data with HR from whole ride: http://connect.garmin.com/activity/231387960