I’m borrowing my brother’s eTrex Vista C, which is a hand-held Garmin GPS unit. I bought a bike handlebar mount for it to use as a trip computer. Today, my friend Julie and I rode a hair under 60 miles on Whidbey Island, from Clinton to Ft. Casey. Normally, I’ve just had the stats from my Polar S720i, which produces screenshots like what I have below. Red with white background is my heart rate, blue is speed, and the red with gray background is altitude. Now, I also have the info on a map. Took me a bit to upload the data to MotionBased (used the agent, as uploading a .txt file that Garmin MapSource created kept getting an error).
You’re welcome to check out the ride: http://trail.motionbased.com/trail/episode/view.mb?episodePk.pkValue=763575
There are some cool features about it… the simulation using Adobe SVG is pretty nice.
The thing I’m not sure if MB has is a great community to share routes… seems they’re trying with TrailNetwork, but I didn’t find anything useful. Perhaps it just hasn’t hit critical mass yet.
