19 January 2008 Hulu Langat

Going up. The above data from Nokia Sports Tracker, the graph dosen't look smooth. *read update below

Finally figured out how to display Nokia Sports Tracker data in Garmin Training Center. More on that later.

Today I went to Hulu Langat again. Another solo ride but I was joined by Yin who I met during the Fraser Hill ride. He was not riding. He was mapping a training route around Semenyih area for pre Fraser Hill ride in March.

The ride was tougher that last week's because I didn't do any training this week. When I reach the climb my legs went noodles but I I was determined to make it. The climb is not tough as Genting Sempah, it's just your legs are not fresh when you hit the climb.

Today I stayed in the middle ring and keep off from the last & second last cog at at the back. Halfway couple of pros overtook me! They were firing on all cylinders! Their cadence seems to be a lot higher. Amazing.

Reached the Jelebu/Selangor border and Yin arrived a few minutes later. He decided to be my support car for the journey down to Bt 18 town. We had drinks at Bt 18 town as I forgot to have my snack before cycling down the hill.


There's a loop on Google Earth above because I took a wrong turn and have to detour. Looks like from the image I should have went ahead and take the bridge to join my normal route.

Bike meter says;

Max speed:49KM/H, Distance:58.2KM, Riding time:2H 20Min, Average speed:24.9 KM/H




Going down. Data from Garmin XT

*Update; since Nokia Sports Tracker logs at 1 sec interval it will have more data compared to Garmin XT (4 sec) which makes the graph look bunched up. I have to filter the points by 4 sec or more in Mapsource to make the graph look smooth in Training Center.

16 January 2008

It started to rain as soon as I got out of my front door. I waited for a 10 minutes and then decided to stay home. It probably didn't rain in Taman Tun and the Tuesday night ride would have went on as schedule. Will try next week.

So this week I managed to fix the data transfer error between Garmin XT and Mapsource. I format my phone! I did backup my data using Nokia software but it didn't backup my data in the card! After re-installation the Garmin applications works.

Another problem I notice was the GPX format in Nokia Sports Tracker program. It doesn't put the actual speed in the tag. It writes the speed information without a tag. This is why every time I convert the data the speed is all wrong! Emailed the developers. So for now Nokia Sports Tracker is no good if you want to download your training data and display it on Garmin Training Center. However I'll still use it to do non- workout tracking for geotagging my photos since the application is lightweight compare to Garmin XT.

11 January 2008 Hulu Langat

Went to Hulu Langat alone after couple of weeks of no activity. This is my second ride, the first with PCC. this time it feels 'easier'. It took me 1hr 18 min to reach the Selangor-N.Sembilan border. If you start the climb at 8.30am you get to see magnificent view of the mountain range. The valley below was covered in mist and the mountains in the distance looks like snow capped with their tip covered in clouds.



The let down of the trip is my Garmin GPS software crashed when I reach home. All the data gone! I have to reinstall the program and upgraded to a newer version( XX.XX.60). So far the performance is good. Better and faster lock... indoors!

I've been emailing Klaus Bechtold of GPSies.com for him to include Nokia Sport Tracker GPX files in his converter so that I can view the ride detail in Garmin Training Center. Please visit his site.

Genting Sempah track

This is where I spend most of my Saturday mornings.

23-12-07

What a packed weekend.

Thursday went to Bukit Gasing train. Saturday to Genting Sempah and lost my GPS receiver! :), and Sunday went to Sg. Sendat ride with PCC with my newly bought GPS receiver!

Easy ride but I managed to fall down 4-5 times..all pilot error except for the last one where a rider stopped suddenly in front of me. Almost fell again on the road coming back. So embarrassing! :)




After one of the fall, I checked my phone and there was no life! On the phone and everything worked slowly but later it operate normally. The Nokia sports tracker have crashed but managed to save the data. So the above image is from combining 2 data, before and after the crash.

KKB to Fraser Hill

The ride is almost as same as the ride to Genting Sempah. The difference is in the last 10 to 5 KM where the temperature drops and the gradient gets steeper.



When we arrived at the GAP house it started to rain, then it stopped and it started again while we were having lunch at Fraser Hill.



Since the ride took more that what we expected, we decided to brave the rain, and head down the hill. The temperature was 21°C and the wind was freezing. After 5km of decent my rear brake pads were worn out.

Overall a good ride with nice sceneries and English architecture(& weather!).

Max Speed:61KM\H, Distance:78.70KM, Riding time:3Hrs 51Min, Average speed: 20.5KM\H

Do not ride

Do not ride after donating blood at least for 24hrs. After 5 mins my heart already pumps like crazy and I decided to stop after 30 mins. I was dismantling the bike from the trainer when suddenly I felt weak and dizzy. I quickly sat down and took deep breathe.

The last time I felt like this was when I came back from swimming. Not sure if that was after donating blood.