How many of you have thought this--"In order to do X better I need to buy some new gear." Well, I must admit, I The watch wirelessly syncs to the interwebs and there is both online and desktop software that lets you cut the data in a million ways. Motion Based, Garmin Connect, Runstoppable, Every Trail are a few of the ones I found so far. Some of these even have an rss feed--I will see if I can hack that into my blog (I am also trying to hack Twitter into my template, with limited success). I imported the GPS data from my run this weekend into Google Earth and mapped it.
You are looking west over Malibu Canyon coming from the valley towards PCH. The Malibu Creek run starts at Malibu Creek, loops up through where they filmed M*A*S*H (still some rusted out Jeeps), up Crags road to the top of Corral Canyon, run along the ridge for a while, cruise down, suffer up and over into Tapia Park. Down. First long run of the season and at 3 1/2 hours, it was pretty slow and painful. Runnings companions Bruce & John rocked, however.
2000 ft elevation change, but counting all the ups and downs, 4000 ft of ascent and 4000 ft of descent.
We stayed pretty slow, ~12 min+ pace.
My heart rate didn't quite track the climb like I thought--I think it was just protesting throughout.
I admire your physical feats Kahl. Before you got lasik, did your contacts ever cause you problems during your races?
ReplyDeleteCongrats on Stanford! I got a LinkedIn update in my email box so that's how I found out.
I love Malibu Creek--one of my favorite starting points for runs. Maybe I'll suck it up and join you and Bruce on a run before you move up to Palo Alto! Will be you here all summer?
ReplyDeleteI fall victim to the gear logic too! (Thus a room full of stuff to do a lot of other stuff that I've not gotten around to yet. I think I'm just going to get rid of it all - it's just stressing me out.)
ReplyDeleteI am also impressed with the data you can produce with your new toy. Pretty cool.
I was also wondering why you chose a weight goal instead of a body fat percentage goal? For an active person weight is often misleading. This former personal trainer sez use body fat percentage instead. There are even cool handheld gadgets for it! They're not the most accurate but are close enough.
ReplyDeleteHmmm, I guess a body fat % would be better and more accurate. I sort of eyeballed it using my BMI. 160 lbs would bring me down to average / low BMI for my height. I am not going to be ultra strict about it come September--probably +/- 3-4 lbs. But if there is new gear to buy, I am on it.
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