Week in Review 10/6 - 10/12/14

This was a decent week overall and got some good miles in, in fact I am pretty sure this was some of my strongest riding so far and that makes me pretty happy.

The numbers:

Miles: 132.9

Total time: 8hrs 24mins

Elevation: 2054

Not too shabby, would have had more but I had a mystery noise that stopped me early on Saturday and then I spent Sunday detailing the bike and doing some light tuning on it as well as spending some time with the family. The mystery noise by the way ended up being a dirty seat post *look of confusion* but at the suggestion of a few people I removed the seatpost, wiped it down and cleaned inside the seat tube. I then took it for a bit of a spin and not one noise from her, what a strange source for such a loud noise, the ride to work today was also silent.

So after posting about the change of tracking services I got a couple suggestions that I figured I would pass along to you.

First off this service is a nice way to synchronize your data across multiple tracking services, I have no doubt we all have more than a single service we use for any number of reasons and it is tough to manually manage them all. to solve this issue it is Tapiriik to the rescue which handles all that for you. One thing it does not do though, and I think this is a Garmin Connect thing, is upload of distance, route, speed and elevation to the Connect site. I have seen this with other programs that sync to it and have never seen distance, route, speed and elevation carry over. My guess is with a Garmin device this would not be an issue. 

As for my migration to a new tracker it is done and as you can see on the right I am now using SportsTrackLive which does everything I need it to including ANT+ integration. It is going to take a bit to get used to the app, it is solid but not entirely as intuitive as the ones I have used before, figuring out how to get it to pause the ride if I stop for a snack is something I had an issue with on my test ride to work today. I stopped at the store and thought I paused it but apparently not. The plus to this is that you can set a minimum speed to be included in your moving average, so it doesn't ding you for user end ID10T errors from what I can tell. 

There are two versions of the app for your Android, the first is a free demo version, it works with limited usage as would be expected of a demo. Then there is a one time fee paid version for $4.99(USD) which includes everything except end of period reports, not too shabby a deal and if you need the extra then it is possibly the most affordable annual fee I have seen yet (max price is $14.97(USD) a year) Also this does not connect to Tapiriik at this point so I am starting from scratch again.

*Edit 10/14/14*
It looks like SportsTrackLive was too good to be true and has announced that it is for sale and if no buyer comes forward they will be shutting down November 1, 2014. Here is a link to their announcement in their blog

I will have some updates on overall impression with this program as time goes by. Just to be clear I am not getting anything for mentioning or linking to their site so this is not meant to be an advertisement of any kind.

If all goes well I should be on my way to having my heart rate monitor and my cadence/speed sensor by the end of the month. Need to sort out my pennies and check the priorities but I think this can be done. This will mean more data to share with you folks along with improved training and results.

I think that covers everything I can think of so until next time keep it rubber side down.