Today, I went East on the W&OD. I made it to the main Park & Ride near Rt 28. This was just a bit shy of the distance to the West to Belmont Ridge Road. I'll have to push it to the Rt 28 bridge next time. (at least)
My ride, again, was great. Except for it being a weekend and all of the "expert" bikers, family walkers, children learning how to bike, and those that "are not from this country" who stupidly walk on the wrong side of the trail. Really? A family of "them" were walking down the left hand side of the trail. Besides from me, they got a talking to, and I was relatively nice about it. So I've mentioned that the trail on the weekend is like rush hour. This is a picture of the trail Park & Ride. It is packed. I watched cars circling the lot hoping for people to leave.
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| W&OD Park & Ride |
So, in addition to my My Tracks app on my GS5 and my Schwinn bike computer, I added an app to my iPhone. Just for comparisons sake, of course. Today's testing was Map My Ride. Here are the results.
The distance was different for all of them, as was the time, but still relatively close.
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| My tracks |
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| Schwinn |
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| Map My Ride |
Map My Ride had me going 6.68 miles in 37:38 and I had to estimate that because this app does not track your moving time. It starts and it stops. And since I started the app before I even left my kitchen and didn't stop it until after I was home and doing things, I had to estimate based on the mileage splits averages - which it does do nicely. Also, I believe it started tracking my miles while still in the kitchen and after I got the phone back to the kitchen.
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| helmet |
My Schwinn bike computer had me going 6.53 miles in 32:38 minutes.
What apps or devices do you use to track your mileage, time, etc.?
Also, I told you that I finally broke down and bought a helmet. I can't stand it. I do not like hats on my head and a helmet is no different. Don't like. Here is a picture of my helmet. It is cute.
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| helmet |
So nice riding today and I still love my bike.
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