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Hellweek Gear Test 2

Second gear test, got everything working the way I want this time.

Below you can see the ride that I took, total distance of 15.9 miles:

GPS route map of a 15.9-mile bike ride through Minneapolis lakes including Cedar Lake, Lake Calhoun, and Lake Harriet, shown with a yellow highlighted path.

Here is an elevation profile of the ride. I was also able to put speed on here as well, the GPS tracks the distance from each sampling point and the time difference, from that you can derive you speed at any point of your ride.

Line chart showing altitude between 780-960 feet and speed 0-40 mph during a bike ride on March 3 2001 from 2:04 PM to 3:06 PM

Last but not least is the all important heart rate graph. I may experiment with exporting this and putting it on the same ride profile chart above, it would correlate more directly with climbing and speed anyway.

Heart rate graph over a 1-hour bike ride showing beats per minute fluctuating mostly in the 130-150 range across color-coded heart rate zones in yellow, green, and red.

Part of the Texas Hellweek 2001 collection.

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Hellweek Gear Test 1

Took my GPS on my ride with me to do a gear test before heading to Texas. Had the heart rate monitor on as well, but for some reason I got no signal, not sure what the problem was with that.

Below you can see the ride that I took today, total distance of 29.8 miles:

GPS route map of a 29.8-mile bike ride through Minneapolis showing a yellow dotted path looping through city streets and around lakes.

Here is an elevation profile of the ride. This was good as the vertical climbing per mile is similar to what I’m expecting in Texas:

Altitude chart of a 29.8-mile bike ride from 2:02 PM to 4:04 PM showing 933 feet of climbing between roughly 800 and 975 feet elevation.

Part of the Texas Hellweek 2001 collection.

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Caribbean Vacation: Day 2

Boats rock a lot, even big ones. Rum, Gin and Tequila don’t help the rocking boat. Tomorrow is the wedding, and the first day on St. Thomas. No excursions planned for tomorrow since the wedding will take most of the time.

Late night snack on a cruise is defined as a full buffet bar. Amazing.

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Caribbean Vacation: Day 1

Got into San Juan at 4:00p. Got sent to the El San Juan Hotel instead of the Old San Juan Hotel, figured out where I was and got that taken care of. Got to the right hotel and decided to take a walk around the local area. Nice area, our dock for the cruise is about a block away. San Juan is an interesting town. The roads are just lined with cars back-to-back, going about 5 mph. The sides of San Juan are really interesting because of the war remnants of the walls and such.

Came back to the hotel and found out that blackjack is a lot like the stock market, you can go down really fast and it takes a long time to get caught back up. Started at $100, got to $170, left with $35. How did that happen?

Taking it easy tonight after transferring today’s photos over. Watching some television getting ready for tomorrow.