I got into bicycling in 2011, stepped up to a nothing-to-write-home-about but decent road bike in 2012, then hardly rode at all last year. I'm slowly getting back into the swing of things and thought I'd post some data here.
I started by recording my distance, time, and velocity. I don't have a cadence computer or heart rate monitor (nor do I want them). I'm obviously not going to break into the world of competitive cycling any time soon, but it has been usefully to break out the data in a few ways to come up with goals for next month--rides by day of the week, rides over and under the average, and so on. Here's my homebrew Excel file results. I'm sure there are apps to do all this crunching for me, but I'm also pushing myself to learn a few new formulas in Excel every month.
I'm hoping to get some advice from other folks who keep track of their rides/workouts/etc. What other useful data do you collect? How else should I think about interpreting what I've got?
2014-01-rides.jpg
Notable things I learned from doing this: I had my best rides on Sundays, I didn't ride at all on Tuesdays (Tu/Th are my long days), and I could stand to increase my Monday or Saturday rides.
I started by recording my distance, time, and velocity. I don't have a cadence computer or heart rate monitor (nor do I want them). I'm obviously not going to break into the world of competitive cycling any time soon, but it has been usefully to break out the data in a few ways to come up with goals for next month--rides by day of the week, rides over and under the average, and so on. Here's my homebrew Excel file results. I'm sure there are apps to do all this crunching for me, but I'm also pushing myself to learn a few new formulas in Excel every month.
I'm hoping to get some advice from other folks who keep track of their rides/workouts/etc. What other useful data do you collect? How else should I think about interpreting what I've got?
2014-01-rides.jpg
Notable things I learned from doing this: I had my best rides on Sundays, I didn't ride at all on Tuesdays (Tu/Th are my long days), and I could stand to increase my Monday or Saturday rides.
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