| Re: How do you log rides?
Tracking these data has transformed the way I ride. It has led me to
ride farther, faster, and more often.
I just enter the data in a spread sheet. At the end of the year I start
a new one. Over time I've added bells and whistles like a graph of
cumulative miles and seven-day totals.
Patrick Lamb wrote:
> Trouble with having a spreadsheet is, you keep going.
And this is a problem how exactly?
> So how do you keep track of your rides? (Do you?) What's important
> enough to log -- time, distance, ride profile, max/min speed or pulse
> -- and why do you log it? What do you do with it when you're done?
The basic odo stats: miles, time, average speed, and top speed (a proxy
for "hilliness," since I do not have GPS). Plus comments, which briefly
describes the ride and maybe or how I felt, or any problems I had.
What I do when I'm "done:" well, I go for another ride, if I can.
Between rides this information is entertaining or useful (or both) in
several ways.
I can track my performance on terms of distance or average speed, both
generally and on those rides I do regularly. If I am actually training
for something, which is rare, I can compare my performance with the
training schedule.
I can go back a year or two to remind myself of particular rides. If I
want to do a particular kind of ride--say, a 40-mile hilly ride in apple
country--I can probably find one, along with my notes about how I liked it.
At the end of the year I can characterize my performance. I rode a
little less this year than the year before, but my rides were both
faster and hillier.
I get all this from my spreadsheet, which works pretty well for me.
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