What software/online service are you using to store your GPS running data?

[wdwmagic]

HI Guys,

What are you uploading your GPS running data to? I am currently using Garmin Training Center on the PC, and Garmin Connect online. I'm not really happy with either. Any suggestions on what you like to use?

Thanks

 

[joel_maxwell]

I use the Garmin Training Center and it is very boring. I upload to Garmin Connect, but I cant make a schedule there. I plan out my schedule in a xls spreadsheet and enter it here too. This is every OCD's dream. Red column is my run, green column my bike, blue column my swim. Notes, path, calories burned, elevation change, ascended and descended. New tab, new training plan.

 

[Ariel484]

Similar to @joel_maxwell ...a combination of Garmin Connect (to get splits, elevation, etc.) and Google Docs (or Drive...whatever) to plan out my schedule. I like Google Drive because I can update it anywhere (home, work, using the app on my phone, etc.).

 

[joel_maxwell]

Similar to @joel_maxwell ...a combination of Garmin Connect (to get splits, elevation, etc.) and Google Docs (or Drive...whatever) to plan out my schedule. I like Google Drive because I can update it anywhere (home, work, using the app on my phone, etc.).

Hmmmmm. Very nice. I might have to think about migrating.

 

[Ariel484]

Hmmmmm. Very nice. I might have to think about migrating.

It's not perfect by any means (example: they just added the capability to edit cells in the app, like, 2 weeks ago ) but it's getting better. You can't do super fancy stuff with it, like macros/VBA programming or VLOOKUP, but you can sum columns and create multiple worksheets.

 

[JillC LI]

Garmin Training Center although I do nothing with the data once I download it. I had no idea you could make those fancy charts above on other Garmin software!

 

[joel_maxwell]

Garmin Training Center although I do nothing with the data once I download it. I had no idea you could make those fancy charts above on other Garmin software!

Jill, mine is a simple XLS spreadsheet from Microsoft. Im not sure if Arial484 has Garmin import and display data through google docs or input it manually. Mine is all manual. It is double the work since I upload it, then copy it all to XLS, but I dont mind.

 

[Donald Duck]

Garmin connect. And the old fashioned way: write everything down in my daily journal. Yup, with a pen too. Weather, how i felt, miles, calories, what I saw, injuries, pains, nutriton, gear, etc... It's very detailed

 

[Kristia]

Boy, you guys are good! I just upload it to Garmin Connect and do nothing else. Basically just use it as a running log to look at my mileage.

 

[joel_maxwell]

Garmin connect. And the old fashioned way: write everything down in my daily journal. Yup, with a pen too. Weather, how i felt, miles, calories, what I saw, injuries, pains, nutriton, gear, etc... It's very detailed

Very nice Nick. I would expect nothing less than hand written. Very cool.

Boy, you guys are good! I just upload it to Garmin Connect and do nothing else. Basically just use it as a running log to look at my mileage.

Kristi, we are poster children for a variety of OCD tendencies. We are artist (in our own way). It is in our blood to be ridiculously detailed. LOL, it is normal and without it, I would feel incomplete.

 

[Mr mom]

Garmin connect. And the old fashioned way: write everything down in my daily journal. Yup, with a pen too. Weather, how i felt, miles, calories, what I saw, injuries, pains, nutriton, gear, etc... It's very detailed

Considering all that you do, your log probably takes as much time as one of your runs, lol
I log my runs, with a pen and that is about it, I keep track of my calories but only so I make sure I am taking enough in.

 

[Mad Stitch]

It's not perfect by any means (example: they just added the capability to edit cells in the app, like, 2 weeks ago ) but it's getting better. You can't do super fancy stuff with it, like macros/VBA programming or VLOOKUP, but you can sum columns and create multiple worksheets.

I would have never imagined I'd see the word VLOOKUP on these boards. The work world and personal life merging a little too much for me.

I just use Garmin Connect. The only thing I care about is my splits and pace per mile, so it does the job for me.

 

[Ariel484]

Garmin Training Center although I do nothing with the data once I download it. I had no idea you could make those fancy charts above on other Garmin software!

Jill, mine is a simple XLS spreadsheet from Microsoft. Im not sure if Arial484 has Garmin import and display data through google docs or input it manually. Mine is all manual. It is double the work since I upload it, then copy it all to XLS, but I dont mind.

I just type it all in to Excel on Google Drive...I think everything can be exported to a .csv file, and that could be imported to Google Drive or opened in Excel. One issue I sometimes get with Google Drive is not being able to edit documents that I import in frm MS Word, Excel, etc. I Really weird and kind of annoying...hopefully they will change that in the future. I do 2 of my runs every week on the treadmill so that mileage wouldn't be captured in Garmin Connect because I don't have the foot pod, so that's a big reason why I use Google Drive.

I would have never imagined I'd see the word VLOOKUP on these boards. The work world and personal life merging a little too much for me.

I just use Garmin Connect. The only thing I care about is my splits and pace per mile, so it does the job for me.

HAHA. Sorry about that. I mentioned the programming stuff because my husband used to keep a beer log in Excel and had fancy VLOOKUPs and macros and whatnot...he also has something similar for calculating baseball win expectancy and was hoping to use both of those things in Google Drive, but the capability just isn't there. So it was coming from a nerdy place, not a work-related place (and he would totally agree with that assessment).

 

[Texas84]

Garmin Connect and MS-Excel. I also use Excel for my log and enter comments there. I also calculate projected times which is pure rubbish since I can't do a marathon at a 10K pace.

 

[JillC LI]

Jill, mine is a simple XLS spreadsheet from Microsoft. Im not sure if Arial484 has Garmin import and display data through google docs or input it manually. Mine is all manual. It is double the work since I upload it, then copy it all to XLS, but I dont mind.

I just type it all in to Excel on Google Drive...I think everything can be exported to a .csv file, and that could be imported to Google Drive or opened in Excel. One issue I sometimes get with Google Drive is not being able to edit documents that I import in frm MS Word, Excel, etc. I Really weird and kind of annoying...hopefully they will change that in the future. I do 2 of my runs every week on the treadmill so that mileage wouldn't be captured in Garmin Connect because I don't have the foot pod, so that's a big reason why I use Google Drive.

Way too much work for me. I create a calendar at the beginning of each month showing the runs I intend to do. At the end of each run, be it outdoors with the Garmin or indoors on the TM, I jot down in my running journal my route, distance, pace, and perceived difficulty. I may take note of the elevation changes but I don't record it. It gets downloaded into Garmin Training Center when I connect the Garmin to the computer, but after that, I never really look at it again. I'm not tech savvy enough.

 

[joel_maxwell]

Way too much work for me. I create a calendar at the beginning of each month showing the runs I intend to do. At the end of each run, be it outdoors with the Garmin or indoors on the TM, I jot down in my running journal my route, distance, pace, and perceived difficulty. I may take note of the elevation changes but I don't record it. It gets downloaded into Garmin Training Center when I connect the Garmin to the computer, but after that, I never really look at it again. I'm not tech savvy enough.

Im not going to speak for Nick, but I can say with confidence, we are data junkies. I love to look back on events I do every year and look at the splits, the elevation comparisons etc. I also use it as a training tool. If I know that I have a killer run coming up (Ruffner Mtn for instance), Ill look at the 3-4 major climbs in that run and try to find hills locally that are similar and even do them in order to mentally prepare. Its fun to me. I LOVE satellite views too and looking at new routes.

 

[bethram]

Garmin Training Center although I do nothing with the data once I download it. I had no idea you could make those fancy charts above on other Garmin software!

I upload to Garmin Training Center about once a week and I log it into dailymile after every run. Since the first of the year I've started recording in my weekly planner at school so I can total my weekly and monthly miles because I didn't like the way dailymile was rounding. I guess that's the math teacher in me.

I used to record calories burned but I've somehow messed up my settings on my watch and don't know how to get it back without changing my display which I don't want to do.

 

[Phonedave]

Boy, you guys are good! I just upload it to Garmin Connect and do nothing else. Basically just use it as a running log to look at my mileage.

That's about all I do too. I guess data analysis and spread sheets, and calanders are too much of my daily work life.

I have a rough idea of when and how much I am going to run, but I change that on the fly, depending on work and personal life.

I go back and look at my Garmin Connect data sometimes to get a rough overall feel of progress or things I am missing, but most of the time it is just go out and run. I leave the house with a rough idea of how many miles I want to do, and just run random routes until I reach that goal. Somtimes I end up down the end of dead end streets, other times I turn a corner and mentaly say "damn, I had no idea a hill was here". It keeps it interesting.

I ran with my dog for the first time the other day (just for 1.5 miles to see how he would do). It was OK, except for the 2 or 3 times he stopped and I almost dislocated my shoulder. I should put that in the logs somehow.

-dave

 

[Kristia]

I ran with my dog for the first time the other day (just for 1.5 miles to see how he would do). It was OK, except for the 2 or 3 times he stopped and I almost dislocated my shoulder. I should put that in the logs somehow.

-dave

I have tried to run with my dogs but I guess I haven't trained them well enough! My husband and I each tried to take one and occassionally one or the other would suddenly cut in front of us and almost trip us. And like you, we have the sudden stop or the many potty breaks they want to take. It is definitely a different kind of workout!

 

[runningforit]

I have used Endomondo and Nike plus apps for android on my phone and liked both. However, it was cumbersome to always have to take my phone and make sure it was fully charged in advance so I asked for (and received) the Garmin Forerunner 10 for Christmas. I love it!

So easy to throw on and use that I haven't missed a single mile. Garmin Connect tracks everything as well as the others...

Just my 20 pesos