September 5, 2008
Running consistently in some random place on the trip was nearly impossible. Now that we're back and somewhat stable-ish, we're on the interval running program again. Actually, we've just finished week six (of 13), but I've hesitated to write a post until now, since we've started and stopped so many times. But, now it's seems that it may stick.
To make the pure act of running in the hills hopelessly dorky, I take along a heart monitor and GPS watch. I download the data to a computer, which I then analyze and relish as only an engineer can. Until recently, I'd used the software that's packaged with the watch, but I stumbled on something much better. It's free, open source and called SportTracks. It's feature rich and provides everything a data junkie would want. It stores heart rate zones, course route (on a Google map), elevation, pace, weather, weight and much more. Here is a screenshot:
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| From Geekery |
Tomorrow we journey for the Oregon coast for a much not-needed vacation. Actually, it's more of a sojourn, since we plan to spend almost the entire time at a timeshare that Leah's parents would have occupied, if Adrien's newest knee installation wasn't smack in the middle of the two weeks.
Now, let's hope we can continue running at the timeshare. That should work, right?
