2008 Stats and Traces


GPS Stats

According to my TopoFusion logbook, these are my year end stats:

5669.22 mi (1954.64 mi uphill, 2020.32 mi downhill, 1628.15 mi flat)
681,078 ft total ascent (679,717 ft descent) – 8.8 % avg uphill grade, 11.0 % avg downhill grade
31 days 5:33:06 moving time (60 days 12:45:38 total time)
8.3 mph average speed
3167.098 difficulty, 9188.656 effort

I’m missing a few rides, since I don’t GPS everything, but that’s the bulk of it.

Compared to last year, I rode 650 more miles, but climbed 40,000 less feet. Miles are not very meaningful for a mountain biker (IMO), so the lack of climbing must mean I’m getting soft. Total difficulty index is also significantly lower, confirming my wimpiness (as if anyone needed to confirm that, least of all me).

Still, I spent about a tenth of my total time alive physically moving on a bicycle (or, heaven forbid, hiking along side it), and almost 20% of the time “out on the bike.”

8.3 mph for an overall average seems really low considering how much pavement and dirt road riding is in there. Plenty of slow (aka fun) riding in there, I guess.


Photos

I took 5,715 different pictures in 2008, or about 15 per day. 902 of them were posted on this diary.


Words

103 posts on the diary, totaling 58,155 words (359,337 characters). Yikes.


Scott Traces

My 2008 GPS data looks like this (Tucson detail):





You can probably guess about where I live. Things are pretty much connected, but I see some critical missing links, meaning that I didn’t ride to places like the 50 year trail (from home) a single time in ’08. For shame, for shame.

All my GPS data (~2002 – 2008) in Tucson looks like this:





The darker and thicker the lines, the more I’ve been there. Definitely a few new additions in there for 08, and some coloring of lines that used to be faint.

Those lines are my lifeblood, the central nervous system of my psyche.

I was quite happy to see TopoFusion only take about one minute to load all my GPS data, and though it isn’t smooth/fast at crunching through all 2.5 million points, it was definitely usable.

Zoomed way out, it looks like this:





Again, faint lines are less traveled. A lot of that is well connected in 2008, thanks to the Grand Enchantment Trail which brought AZ and CO together (via the Divide Route). Still quite a few islands to reel in and connect to ‘the Network.’ I’ve got some riding to do (and routes to figure out)…


Weather (from NWS)

THE RESIDENTS OF THE TUCSON METRO AREA EXPERIENCED YET ANOTHER WARM
AND DRY YEAR…

…14TH WARMEST AND 23RD DRIEST YEAR ON RECORD…
…10TH STRAIGHT YEAR OF ABOVE NORMAL TEMPERATURES…
…8TH STRAIGHT YEAR OF BELOW NORMAL RAINFALL…
…1ST RECORD LOW TEMPERATURE SET IN OCTOBER SINCE 1971…

Hmm.

6 comments to 2008 Stats and Traces

  • OOOO!!! I like those maps, and your accumulations of and within the year. Nice! Nice! Nice!

    I like this: “Those lines are my lifeblood, the central nervous system of my psyche.” Well said. I have got to put together one of those myself….

    Have a good time in 2009!

    Jj

  • Interesting, when I looked at my TopoFusion files for 2008 I see about 3050mi, if I manualy add CTR and Trans UT, my elv says about 358,000ft (this elv does not include CTR or rans Ut)and 8 mph avg , very interesting!!

  • scott

    Marshal, looks like you climb more per mile than I do. Not surprising given where you live. Not much flat riding along the front range.

    Looks like you GPS a lot of your rides. Cool.

    Jenyjo – Yep, I can’t stop staring at those maps. The movement patterns of an obsessed MTB nut. Would love to see some other people’s ‘mental’ maps…

  • P.D.

    Sweet… log book. Another great feathure of Topofusion! Thanks for the idea. Shoddy data for last year, but something to think about for next.

  • Lots of blank spots on those maps! Those are the places that intrigue in my backyard.

    As for the effort index, I’m sure that’s not taking into account technical difficulty – is it? Straight GPS stats are gonna miss the meat of yer riding 😉

  • scott

    Dave — yes, plenty of blank areas close to home…

    In a way the difficulty/effort does account for technical, in that the steeper a trail is, the more technical it is likely to be. But, no, there’s no technical rating in there.

Leave a Reply

You can use these HTML tags

<a href="" title=""> <abbr title=""> <acronym title=""> <b> <blockquote cite=""> <cite> <code> <del datetime=""> <em> <i> <q cite=""> <s> <strike> <strong>