2012 cycling wrap up Increased both the target distance and the percentage completed in the last year; up from 5000km to 5200km, and completed 97%, up from 94%. Still plenty of room for improvement though. It would have been worse but I forced myself out for three last gasp rides, one on [2012-12-30 Sun] and then two on [2012-12-31 Mon].
According to my GPS, here’s my ride report for December 2012 and for all of 2012:
I set myself the goal of riding 5200km in 2012, that’s 100km a week for anyone who thinks it an unusual number. Most of my rides are recorded on my Garmin Edge 705, apart from when I either forget to turn it on or the firmware has wedged itself and I cannot turn it on.
Getting closer to the end, getting closer to the goal, I haven’t yet started working out how likely it’ll be.
I set myself the goal of riding 5200km in 2012, that’s 100km a week for anyone who thinks it an unusual number. Most of my rides are recorded on my Garmin Edge 705, apart from when I either forget to turn it on or the firmware has wedged itself and I cannot turn it on.
Catastrophically, I dropped the Edge 705 while leaving work on [2012-10-05 Fri] and despite pulling over as quickly as possible, I got to watch as the first three drivers in a row managed to line their wheels up perfectly to run over it, destroying the screen.
I set myself the goal of riding 5200km in 2012, that’s 100km a week for anyone who thinks it an unusual number. Most of my rides are recorded on my Garmin Edge 705, although sometimes I forget to turn it on, or the firmware has wedged itself and I cannot turn it on, or more rarely, can’t find it and ride to work without it.
Tracked on http://mycyclinglog.com
Progress: 66%
I set myself the goal of riding 5200km in 2012, that’s 100km a week for anyone who thinks it an unusual number. Most of my rides are recorded on my Garmin Edge 705, although sometimes I forget to turn it on, or more rarely, can’t find it and ride to work without it.
I also had the problem this month that the Edge became gradually more unreliable at turning on and finally got into a state where I couldn’t turn it on either through the buttons or by plugging it into the USB cable – some digging around found a way of connecting to USB while pushing the joystick up – then I erased all the history.
I set myself the goal of riding 5200km in 2012, that’s 100km a week for anyone who thinks it an unusual number. Most of my rides are recorded on my Garmin Edge 705, although sometimes I forget to turn it on, or more rarely, can’t find it and ride to work without it.
Tracked on http://mycyclinglog.com
Progress: 50%
2592.27 km at 17.80 km/h A distance of 2607.73 km remains. At current average speed, 146.
I set myself the goal of riding 5200km in 2012, that’s 100km a week for anyone who thinks it an unusual number. Most of my rides are recorded on my Garmin Edge 705, although sometimes I forget to turn it on, or more rarely, can’t find it and ride to work without it.
Tracked on http://mycyclinglog.com
Progress: 43%
2253.73 km at 17.80 km/h A distance of 2946.27 km remains. At current average speed, 165.
I set myself the goal of riding 5200km in 2012, that’s 100km a week for anyone who thinks it an unusual number. Most of my rides are recorded on my Garmin Edge 705, although sometimes I forget to turn it on, or more rarely, can’t find it and ride to work without it.
Tracked on http://mycyclinglog.com
Progress: 34%
1783.20 km at 17.57 km/h A distance of 3416.80 km remains. At current average speed, 194.
I set myself the goal of riding 5200km in 2012, that’s 100km a week for anyone who thinks it an unusual number. Most of my rides are recorded on my Garmin Edge 705, although sometimes I forget to turn it on, or more rarely, can’t find it and ride to work without it.
Tracked on http://mycyclinglog.com
Progress: 28%
1471.06 km at 17.72 km/h A distance of 3728.94 km remains. At current average speed, 210.
According to my GPS, here’s my ride report for March 2012:
Progress: 21%
1116.62 km at 17.38 km/h A distance of 4083.38 km remains. At current average speed, 235.0 hours of ride time required. An average daily distance of 14.96 km required. You should have completed a distance of 1314.29 km by today. From Garmin for the month:
Mar 2012 Count 28 Activities Distance 380.54 km Time 21:23:52 h:m:s Elevation Gain 4,097 m Avg Speed 17.
Just in case you – or I – are wondering, I had almost a month’s worth of fun with my ISP and didn’t get my riding logs sorted out until halfway through March, so that’s why this page is late.
According to my GPS, here’s my ride report for February 2012:
Progress: 16% – 833.30 km at 17.43 km/h
A distance of 4366.70 km remains. At current average speed, 250.5 hours of ride time required.
According to my GPS, here’s my ride report for January 2012:
Progress: 8%
407.41 km at 16.81 km/h A distance of 4792.59 km remains. At current average speed, 285.0 hours of ride time required. An average daily distance of 14.26 km required. You should have completed a distance of 414.29 km by today. Jan 2012 Count 19 Activities Distance 407.41 km Time 24:13:44 h:m:s Elevation Gain 4,171 m Avg Speed 16.
Oh well, I didn’t quite make it to my annual goal of 5000km! 94% is good enough for a Distinction academically, but doesn’t cut it when aiming for a riding goal for the year, even a lowly 5000km:
According to my GPS, here’s my ride report for December 2011 and for all of 2011:
Count 22 Activities 269 Activities Distance 466.26 km 4,618.14 km Time 25:17:13 h:m:s 262:58:34 h:m:s Elevation Gain 4,866 m 48,845 m Avg Speed 18.
My ride report for November 2011:
My 5000km for the year is looking a little hard to reach at the moment. I’m still about 250km behind where I should be. As one of the stats analysers says – so far I’ve done 4294.27 km:
A distance of 705.73 km remains. At current average speed, 39.8 hours of ride time required. An average daily distance of 26.14 km required. I should have completed a distance of 4643.
My ride report for October 2011:
My 5000km for the year is looking a little hard to reach at the moment. As one of the stats analysers says – so far I’ve done 3848.03km at 17.67km/h :
A distance of 1151.97 km remains. At current average speed, 65.2 hours of ride time required. An average daily distance of 19.20 km required. I should have completed a distance of 4191.78 km by today.
My ride report for September 2011:
According to www.mycyclinglog.com Period Time Distance (km) Avg Speed (km/h) Ride Count September 20:32:36 405.72 17.69 24 According to Garmin Or here they are according to my GPS and http://connect.garmin.com for the month and for the year to date1:
September 2011 2011 Count 24 Activities 198 Activities Distance 398.27 km 3,393.85 km Time 23:00:15 h:m:s 194:53:21 h:m:s Elevation Gain 4,925 m 36,164 m Avg Speed 17.
My ride report for August 2011:
According to www.mycyclinglog.com Period Time Distance (km) Avg Speed (km/h) Ride Count August 04:59:52 289.32 16.73 19 According to Garmin Or here they are according to my GPS and http://connect.garmin.com for the month and for the year to date1:
August 2011 2011 Count: 19 Activities 174 Activities Distance 283.22 km 2,995.58 km Time 17:06:31 h:m:s 171:53:06 h:m:s Elevation Gain 3,412 m 31,239 m Avg Speed 16.
My ride report for July 2011:
According to www.mycyclinglog.com Period Time Distance (km) Avg Speed (km/h) Ride Count Month of July 17:58:33 305.37 16.99 20 According to Garmin Or here they are according to my GPS and http://connect.garmin.com for the month and for the year to date1:
July 2011 2011 Count 20 Activities 155 Activities Distance 298.35 km 2,712.36 km Time 17:58:42 h:m:s 154:46:34 h:m:s Elevation Gain 4,097 m 27,827 m Avg Speed 16.
My ride report for June 2011:
According to www.mycyclinglog.com Period Time Distance (km) Avg Speed (km/h) Ride Count Month of June 21:58:31 389.10 17.07 24 According to Garmin Or here they are according to my GPS and http://connect.garmin.com for the month and for the year to date1:
June 2011 2011 Count 24 Activities 135 Activities Distance 382.03 km 2,414.01 km Time 22:34:08 h:m:s 136:47:52 h:m:s Elevation Gain 4,099 m 23,730 m Avg Speed 16.
Something I’ve been looking for for ages, a good way of visualising the many GPX tracks I’ve saved over the years. Today I stumbled on Alexander Avtanski’s GPS Track Visualization and here’s the results of my logged lunchtime walks so far for 2011:
GPS Visualisation - Lunchtime walks by ajft, on Flickr Minor annoyance so far, although it works fine for me on the GPX tracks I’ve generated on the iPhone in Endomondo and then downloaded from the endomondo website, it barfs on the GPX from generated by the Garmin Edge 305 or 705 and then downloaded from Garmin Connect.
My ride report for May 2011:
As its always important to get a second opinion, here’s the numbers from http://www.mycyclinglog.com/profile/ajft:
Period Time Distance (km) Avg Speed (km/h) Ride Count Month of May 19:39:33 350.58 17.12 23 Or here they are according to my GPS and http://connect.garmin.com for the month and for the year to date1:
May 2011 2011 Count 23 Activities 111 Activities Distance 344.88 km 2,031.98 km Time 20:12:39 h:m:s 114:13:43 h:m:s Elevation Gain 3,603 m 19,631 m Avg Speed 17.
According to my GPS, here’s my ride report for April 2011 and the year to date1:
April 2011 2011 Count 19 Activities 88 Activities Distance 443.56 km 1,687.10 km Time 25:32:43 h:m:s 94:01:04 h:m:s Elevation Gain 4,365 m 16,028 m Avg Speed 17.4 km/h 17.9 km/h Avg HR 137 bpm 136 bpm Avg Run Cadence – – Avg Bike Cadence – – Calories 16,079 C 67,000 C Definitely on track to make my 5000km target for the year this time!
According to my GPS, here’s my ride report for March 20111:
March 2011 Count 25 Activities Distance 496.75 km Time 26:50:58 h:m:s Elevation Gain 4,936 m Avg Speed 18.5 km/h Avg HR – Avg Run Cadence – Avg Bike Cadence – Calories 20,903 C The grand total so far for 2011 is:
2011 Count 69 Activities Distance 1,243.54 km Time 68:28:21 h:m:s Elevation Gain 11,663 m Avg Speed 18.2 km/h Avg HR 133 bpm Avg Run Cadence – Avg Bike Cadence – Calories 50,921 C I might even make my 5000km target for the year this time!
According to my GPS, here’s my ride report for February 2011:
February 2011 Count 21 Activities Distance 302.94 km Time 18:10:31 h:m:s Elevation Gain 2,875 m Avg Speed 16.7 km/h Avg HR – Avg Run Cadence – Avg Bike Cadence – Calories 13,429 C The grand total so far for 2011 is:
2011 Count 44 Activities Distance 746.78 km Time 41:37:22 h:m:s Elevation Gain 6,727 m Avg Speed 17.9 km/h Avg HR 133 bpm Avg Run Cadence – Avg Bike Cadence – Calories 30,019 C Just managed to top 300km for the month, not bad when most of it is just shuttling back and forth the 7km to work.
According to my GPS1, here’s my ride report for January 2011:
January 2011 Count 23 Activities Distance 443.85 km Time 23:26:51 h:m:s Elevation Gain 3,851 m Avg Speed 18.9 km/h Avg HR 133 bpm Avg Run Cadence – Avg Bike Cadence – Calories 16,589 C The grand total so far for 2011 is:
…exactly the same as the monthly total.
I didn’t quite get to 500 km, although my log on http://mycyclinglog.
According to my GPS1, here’s my ride report for December 2010:
December 2010 Count 23 Activities Distance 401.85 km Time 24:06:55 h:m:s Elevation Gain 4,423 m Avg Speed 16.7 km/h Avg HR – Avg Run Cadence – Avg Bike Cadence – Calories 14,228 C The — not so — grand total for 2010 is:
2010 Count 259 Activities Distance 3,524.20 km Time 199:13:58 h:m:s Elevation Gain 36,592 m Avg Speed 17.
According to my GPS1, here’s my ride report for November:
November 2010 Count 22 Activities Distance 384.44 km Time 20:18:22 h:m:s Elevation Gain 3,851 m Avg Speed 18.9 km/h Avg HR – Avg Run Cadence – Avg Bike Cadence – Calories 14,441 C The total so far for 2010 is:
2010 Count 236 Activities Distance 3,122.35 km Time 175:07:03 h:m:s Elevation Gain 32,169 m Avg Speed 17.8 km/h Avg HR 144 bpm Avg Run Cadence – Avg Bike Cadence – Calories 114,874 C I’m getting further and further behind my goal for 2010 of 5000km, but not yet so far behind that the goal is unobtainable.
According to my GPS1, here’s my ride report for October:
October 2010 Count 9 Activities Distance 126.83 km Time 07:26:59 h:m:s Elevation Gain 1,522 m Avg Speed 17.0 km/h Avg HR – Avg Run Cadence – Avg Bike Cadence – Calories 4,467 C The total so far for 2010 is:
2010 Count 214 Activities Distance 2,737.91 km Time 154:48:40 h:m:s Elevation Gain 28,318 m Avg Speed 17.7 km/h Avg HR 144 bpm Avg Run Cadence – Avg Bike Cadence – Calories 100,433 C I’m getting further and further behind my goal for 2010 of 5000km, but not yet so far behind that the goal is unobtainable.
According to my GPS1, here’s my ride report for September:
September 2010 Count 21 Activities Distance 300.45 km Time 17:12:01 h:m:s Elevation Gain 3,332 m Avg Speed 17.5 km/h Avg HR – Avg Run Cadence – Avg Bike Cadence – Calories 10,315 C The total so far for 2010 is:
2010 Count 205 Activities Distance 2,611.08 km Time 147:21:41 h:m:s Elevation Gain 26,796 m Avg Speed 17.7 km/h Avg HR 144 bpm Avg Run Cadence – Avg Bike Cadence – Calories 95,966 C I’m getting further and further behind my goal for 2010 of 5000km, but not yet so far behind that the goal is unobtainable.
According to my GPS1, here’s my ride report for August:
August 2010 Count 18 Activities Distance 254.74 km Time 15:01:50 h:m:s Elevation Gain 2,840 m Avg Speed 16.9 km/h Avg HR – Avg Run Cadence – Avg Bike Cadence – Calories 9,646 C The total so far for 2010 is:
2010 Count 184 Activities Distance 2,310.63 km Time 130:09:40 h:m:s Elevation Gain 23,465 m Avg Speed 17.8 km/h Avg HR 144 bpm Avg Run Cadence – Avg Bike Cadence – Calories 85,652 C Footnotes 1 As usual, two or three times I forgot to restart it for the ride home from work.
According to my GPS1, here’s my ride report for July:
July 2010 Count 22 Activities Distance 321.14 km Time 17:35:18 h:m:s Elevation Gain 3,765 m Avg Speed 18.3 km/h Avg HR – Avg Run Cadence – Avg Bike Cadence – Calories 11,906 C The total so far for 2010 is:
2010 Count 166 Activities Distance 2,055.89 km Time 115:07:49 h:m:s Elevation Gain 20,625 m Avg Speed 17.9 km/h Avg HR 144 bpm Avg Run Cadence – Avg Bike Cadence – Calories 76,006 C Footnotes 1 As usual, two or three times I forgot to restart it for the ride home from work.
According to my GPS1, here’s my ride report for June:
June 2010 Count 19 Activities Distance 212.31 km Time 13:14:24 h:m:s Elevation Gain 2,085 m Avg Speed 16.0 km/h Avg HR – Avg Run Cadence – Avg Bike Cadence – Calories 8,581 C The total so far for 2010 is:
2010 Count 144 Activities Distance 1,734.75 km Time 97:32:31 h:m:s Elevation Gain 16,859 m Avg Speed 17.8 km/h Avg HR 144 bpm Avg Run Cadence – Avg Bike Cadence – Calories 64,100 C Footnotes 1 As usual, two or three times I forgot to restart it for the ride home from work.
According to my GPS1, here’s my ride report for May:
May 2010 Count 21 Activities Distance 243.01 km Time 14:24:51 h:m:s Elevation Gain 2,334 m Avg Speed 16.9 km/h Avg HR – Avg Run Cadence – Avg Bike Cadence – Calories 8,908 C The total so far for 2010 is:
2010 Count 125 Activities Distance 1,522.44 km Time 84:18:07 h:m:s Elevation Gain 14,774 m Avg Speed 18.1 km/h Avg HR 144 bpm Avg Run Cadence – Avg Bike Cadence – Calories 55,519 Ca Footnotes 1 Two or three times I forgot to restart it for the ride home from work, and the buttons failed so it wasn’t usable for a day.
According to my GPS1, here’s my ride report for April:
April 2010 Count 22 Activities Distance 292.83 km Time 15:19:33 h:m:s Elevation Gain 2,964 m Avg Speed 19.1 km/h Avg HR 142 bpm Avg Run Cadence – Avg Bike Cadence – Calories 11,087 C The total so far for 2010 is:
2010 Count 104 Activities Distance 1279.42 km Time 69:53:15 h:m:s Elevation Gain 12,441 m Avg Speed 18.3 km/h Avg HR 144 bpm Avg Run Cadence – Avg Bike Cadence – Calories 46,611 C Footnotes 1 Two or three times I forgot to restart it for the ride home from work, and the buttons failed so it wasn’t usable for a day.
Another wonderful example of built-in obsolescence. My current GPS, a Garmin Edge 705 bought in January 2009 stopped working last Friday. As with most consumer electronics, it came with a 12 month warranty. As with a suspiciously large number of consumer electronics, it failed shortly after the warranty had expired.
Product name: Edge® 705 Registration date: Jan 20, 2009 Serial number: ######### Unit Id: ########## The power switch had been getting more and more indeterminate over the last few months — but never enough to make me realise and send it off to Garmin for repair while it still had a warranty.
According to my GPS, here’s my ride report for March:
March 2010 Count 26 Activities Distance 361.81 km Time 20:10:40 h:m:s Elevation Gain 3,211 m Avg Speed 17.9 km/h Avg HR 138 bpm Avg Run Cadence – Avg Bike Cadence – Calories 12,593 C The total so far for 2010 is:
2010 Count 82 Activities Distance 986.59 km Time 54:33:42 h:m:s Elevation Gain 9,477 m Avg Speed 18.1 km/h Avg HR 145 bpm Avg Run Cadence – Avg Bike Cadence – Calories 35,524 C
According to my GPS, here’s my ride report for February:
February 2010 Count 36 Activities Distance 364.36 km Time 20:53:04 h:m:s Elevation Gain 3,442 m Avg Speed 17.4 km/h Avg HR – Avg Run Cadence – Avg Bike Cadence – Calories 13,567 C The total so far for 2010 is:
2010 Count 56 Activities Distance 624.78 km Time 34:23:01 h:m:s Elevation Gain 6,266 m Avg Speed 18.2 km/h Avg HR 150 bpm Avg Run Cadence – Avg Bike Cadence – Calories 22,931 C
According to my GPS, here’s my ride report for January:
January 2010 Count 20 Activities Distance 260.43 km Time 13:29:56 h:m:s Elevation Gain 2,825 m Avg Speed 19.3 km/h Avg HR 150 bpm Avg Run Cadence – Avg Bike Cadence – Calories 9,365 C
Sadly, although a GPS can tell where it is, it can’t tell you where it is if you haven’t got it… Stupidly I think I left mine lying on the ground next to the bike when I was leaving work one day this week. The usual routine is to walk outside, turn on the Edge, place the Edge on the top of the sign next to the bike, unlock the bike, put on my helmet and gloves, pick up the Edge and ride off.
Now that definitely leaves a bad taste in the mouth Mr Garmin.
You purchase a GPS in good faith, one that comes with a 12 month warranty and so when it breaks you send it back to be repaired. You can’t send it to Garmin since they don’t have a presence in Australia, instead you have to send it to GME, who are the “sole repair and distribution centre.”
When it comes back you assume that the replacement one has a warranty, then nine or ten months later that one breaks too… that’s when you discover that according to GME “they’re not real reliable,” but since its a repair unit it only has a 3 month warranty and it’ll cost you $209 to have your unrepairable GPS replaced!
I’d love to believe that Garmin’s Edge 305 is a great piece of equipment, but unfortunately my experiences with the device — two so far — have left me unconvinced.
From day one it has been subject to battery draining hangs if you don’t switch it off and disconnect it from the PC in precisely the right order, and even then sometimes it’ll just hang. You get into the habit of switching off, unplugging, then switching it back on briefly just to check.
Seems that May is bike month in America, not only that, but in Motionbased’s blog I get a mention as one of the two runners up for logging the most number of “commute” bike rides for the year. Hardly record breaking distances with my 5km ride, but there would have been another month’s worth of entries if the Edge 305 hadn’t been off being repaired for all of January!
Interesting that the second, wamble, and third, ajft (me), are both Australian, while number one, mallfellow is in the US.
Vanity site? Technology experiment? Learning tool? Blog? Journal? Diary? Photo album? I could tell you, but then I’d have to kill you…
I experiment. I play. I write and I take pictures. Some of the site is organised around topics, other parts are organized by date, then there’s always the cross-references between them.
Its all been here a fairly long time. Like the papers on my desk, or the books on the bedside table, the pile just grew… and it all grew without much plan or structure. I try not to break URLs, so historical oddities abound.
Long ago it started as a learning experiment with a few static HTML pages, then I added a bit of server-side includes and some very ugly PHP. A hand-built journal/blog on top of that PHP, then a few experiments in moving to various static publishing systems. I’ve never wanted a database-based blogging engine, so over the years I’ve tried PHP, nanoblogger, emacs-muse, silkpage and docbook before settling on Emacs Org mode for writing and jekyll for publishing. But the itch remained… I never really liked jekyll and the ruby underneath always seemed so much black magic. So now the latest incarnation is Org mode and hugo.
