Irish Android

I do quite a bit of cycling and inevitably this leads to thinking about logging and recording these activities in an interesting way that would motivate me to be more consistent in my exercise. When I was an engineer we used Pareto Charts to work out which problems on the equipment were the most pressing and needed our attention. This involved looking at the impact of each problem on the output of the system and ordering this list from biggest impact to smallest. I want to create a program which will create a Pareto style chart of my cycling where my exercise is sorted by speed of each second. An interesting goal for a high intensity session might be to draw a vertical line down this chart at some point and aim to get above that amount of 'high intensity' work. High intensity being defined as above some threshold of speed. It turns out that the GPS receiver in my phone also gives speed numbers. I modified an earlier piece of code for logging my location to also include the s...

I was out for a spin on my bike today and I had an idea for an Android app (or any other smartphone you like). Often when cyclists are training they want to complete a certain distance. A typical training method is to complete a small number - say 2 or 3 - normal rides per week. These might be an hour long. In addition the key part of the training system is a long spin - often at the weekend. The duration of the long spin gets longer (or more intense) as the training plan proceeds. Something like this: Monday - 30km Tuesday - rest Wednesday - 30km Thursday - rest Friday - 30km Sunday - 50km Cyclists end up having to calculate routes of varying lengths near their homes, or a few small loops which they add multiples of onto the end of a training ride in order to get the correct distance. If they decide to push their mileage up in a big jump, they can end up over training or getting an injury, so this is important stuff. My idea is an app that tracks the users mile...