I transfer the distance on my computer to www.bikejournal.com and to the Big Dogs log.

I also keep my own Excel spreadsheet for my reference.

I upload a few gps tracks to ridewithgps.com. I've been trying out strava.com too. Both have a lot of interesting statistics available.

I load all my rides into My Tourbook, free software that's installed on my PC. It can show detailed graphs and maps of each ride, and monthly and yearly statistics. It's fairly complicated, so it took a while to learn the different features. Now I have it set the way I like it.

My standard display. Recent rides are listed at top left, with monthly and yearly totals for miles,total elevation, hours moving, hours paused, average speed, and ride description. The highlighted ride shows it's color coded route map, and the bottom has graphs of elevation (green), heartrate (red), speed (blue).


graphs zoomed in, and grade % (yellow)



The map zoomed way in. Each dot is a GPS recorded data point, color coded by speed. You can see the out-and-back tracks on opposite sides of the road.

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Upload to WKO and then proceed to be depressed.lol

I don't keep ride data, nor do I track anything -- most of the time, I just watch cadence and HR. I'm pretty sure I don't want to know the truth about anything else...

At the risk of sounding like a hard-core luddite, I write down my mileage, elevation gain, ride time and general comments on a wall calendar. At the end of the year, I toss it in the corner with all the other old ones, and start a new one.

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Wow, I do a new spread sheet every year. Must be a huge file by now.

I use Garmin Connnect, Goldden Cheetah, and excel. I will have to learn more about strava though. Looks interesting and seems popular.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qg1ckCkm8YI

Marked

The data is fun stuff to look at in retrospect, but it's not really useful per se unless you have discrete goals and preferably a discrete training plan building on those objective numbers.

The numbers start to count for a whole lot more when you know they're getting you forward to levels that you haven't reached before. I don't find the objective data helpful at all if I'm not in a buildup training phase on a plan - might as well just ride and record my subjective opinion of how hard the ride was.

WKO+. I watch my TSB, and see how its data matches up with how I feel (rested, tired, etc) during periods of intense training. I use the graphs to see watts / heartrate over time as one measure of fitness. I also keep track of watts/kg over time of course, always hoping for that upward trend.

About 20% of my rides go to Strava....anything with climbing. Everything also goes to garmin connect just because it's easy.