Joshua Sham
I never thought that I would cross the finish line before Jeremy! Hahaha the funny thing about this video is that Jeremy mistakenly did an extra lap cycling delaying him by 6 minutes or more.
Thursday, June 16, 2016
Friday, June 10, 2016
Sportinglife 10K 2014 45:36 2015 51:14
Sadly, I'm ashamed that I've slowed down in just 2 years but 51 minutes is still respectable, right? I'll have to break the 45-minute threshold next year.
Better luck next year!
Fitness Tracking 10 Years of Running
Given the hype and popularity of fitness trackers, wearables and watches in general. I thought to myself, has my health improved? Am I stronger than I was in my twenties? The problem that I realized was that although I've had various fitness trackers as of late, none of them can show a picture of my steps, mileage, calories burned, hours slept, or caloric intake 10 years ago when none of the modern day devices existed.
Fitbit, Pebble, Up, Googlewear, Apple Watch, Misfit, Miiband, Nike+, Garmin, Polar, and TomTom, all of these devices boil down to gadgets that might be used for a season, a few months, a few years if you're lucky, but capture data that for the most of us is never collected, organized and put into a usable readable format. I've heard that there are programs that can help you migrate your run data across from one platform to another, specifically Nike+ over to Garmin but I've never bothered myself.
So, I shouldn't say that the devices didn't exist, rather, they were old school GPS watches that didn't connect to your computer, or your iphone4 which required a shoe pod, or worse yet, an old school pedometer that had no wireless capability whatsoever. I believe there are two problems, one, all of that data is gone, and all of the data is spread across multiple platforms and therefore cannot be seen in a single snapshot of your health. What a nightmare right? I'm going to start a search for programs to help aggregate all my running, cycling, paddling, golfing, etc activity into one place.
Before I forget the intention of this post, here are my overall run results as recorded by sportstats.ca
Looks like my best year was 2014 where I posted a 45:36 in the Sportinglife 10K. Hopefully soon, if I keep my training up, I'll log a 40 minute 10K, someday... :)