Even though I never had any telemetry on my auto-x cars or my karts, years of computer racing simulators have made me somewhat obsessive about logging and analyzing telemetry. The problem is that I'm so new to cycling that I don't really know what to do with it... are there any good online sources to get me to a basic understanding of what I'm looking at?
So what I have is a Garmin Edge 510 with HR monitor and speed/cadence sensor. Once I manage to sell some of my presently unused camera gear, I'll be getting a power meter... probably a PowerTap so I can move it from bike to bike. But all I have right now in terms of analysis tools is Garmin Connect... for example, this is this morning's ride: http://connect.garmin.com/activity/511655996
The best use I've found with the HR monitor is not so much looking at data afterwards but rather having the computer alert me every time I cross a certain threshold. Today I had it set to alert me whenever I got above 167bpm... and so it was beeping almost the entire ride. But I figure I can fine tune it to yell at me every time I start to push too hard and hopefully then I can back off in time to prevent that massive hit to pace that always seems to follow a big effort.
I suppose what I really need is a better set of tools. It would be nice to be able to create new splits, trim off warmups and cooldowns, overlay one attempt at a split on another, see grade % instead of elevation... etc...
So what I have is a Garmin Edge 510 with HR monitor and speed/cadence sensor. Once I manage to sell some of my presently unused camera gear, I'll be getting a power meter... probably a PowerTap so I can move it from bike to bike. But all I have right now in terms of analysis tools is Garmin Connect... for example, this is this morning's ride: http://connect.garmin.com/activity/511655996
The best use I've found with the HR monitor is not so much looking at data afterwards but rather having the computer alert me every time I cross a certain threshold. Today I had it set to alert me whenever I got above 167bpm... and so it was beeping almost the entire ride. But I figure I can fine tune it to yell at me every time I start to push too hard and hopefully then I can back off in time to prevent that massive hit to pace that always seems to follow a big effort.
I suppose what I really need is a better set of tools. It would be nice to be able to create new splits, trim off warmups and cooldowns, overlay one attempt at a split on another, see grade % instead of elevation... etc...