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It’s not for me

No calorie, step or workout tracking for a week. I must admit it feels kind of odd, I find myself wanting to open Garmin Connect to check my dashboard.

Workout wise it was a pretty good week, a couple runs, some strength sessions and one ride on the Peloton. I took a couple more walks than normal, as I wanted to feel like I hit my 10,000 steps.

I’ll probably be going back to wearing the Garmin all ay starting tomorrow.

#garmin #fitlife #fitness #peloton

Data overload?

I’ve decided to try something out. For the next few weeks I am going to skip measuring my heart rate and steps, not track sleep and even go on runs without the Garmin. Pretty much the only thing that will have any sort of metrics will be the Peloton.

Why? I realized just how long it has been since I did things by feel. Have I forgotten how to pace myself without a watch, can I accurately gauge how far I have run?

Two days in and it feels kind of weird, shall have to see how this goes.

#fitness #running #training plan #peloton

Peloton - 250 workouts in

Week 38, and today’s ride and stretch took me to 250 workouts total with Peloton. Primarily they have been the cycling and stretching, but a couple strength workouts as well. Weighed in at 168 pounds, down 14 pounds since receiving the bike.

I am very impressed so far. There is an instructor to suit any mood, though I certainly have my favorites.

Some more metrics (and why I’d love to see Garmin integration):

#peloton #fitness #garmin #work in progress

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#running #run #runners #top10

DK Metcalf runs a 10.36s for the 100m

We all knew he wouldn’t win, or come close to it but he certainly did not embarrass himself. Hopefully folks now realize just how fast Olympic caliber sprinters are.

#100m #dk metcalf

Peloton’s New Spring 2021 Features

Great recap of all the new features coming to Peloton: https://www.dcrainmaker.com/2021/05/pelotons-features-detailed.html

Interested to see where the Strive Score goes from here. This is what it looks like on the workouts page.

#Peloton #dcrainmaker #strivescore

Garmin Fenix 6

Picked up a Garmin Fenix 6. Needed something a little more advanced from a data collection perspective than the Apple Watch. Pretty impressed so far.

DCRainmaker has a fantastic review (as always): https://www.dcrainmaker.com/2019/08/garmin-fenix6-pro-solar-series-review.html

One negative, it doesn’t work very well with the Peloton. There is a real simple work around though, download this: https://github.com/philosowaffle/peloton-to-garmin it will convert workout data from Peloton into a TCX file that can be uploaded to Garmin. Really simple, though not entirely feature rich. Here's hoping Garmin gets native Peloton functionality added.

Here is what an uploaded workout looks like on Garmin Connect:

#garmin #fenix6s #Peloton #dcrainmaker

Peloton Sessions

Tried out the Sessions feature on Peloton yesterday. Having a leaderboard of just those in the ride at the time was pretty fun. Found it a lot more engaging and there were high fives being given out everywhere.

At the end I realized I even had a new PR.

#Peloton #leanne hainsby #fitness

Current PRs

60 min class

45 min class

30 min class

20 min class

#fitness #peloton #olivia amato #alex toussaint #matt wilpers #personal records

Been a while

Haven’t updated this site in what feels like forever.

Probably the biggest change for me in the last few months has been purchasing a Peloton bike. I’ve never been a big fan of classes, and have always like to train alone and with my own programs, but I was in such a rut that a change was needed.

Got the bike on November 12, 2020 and have been hooked ever since. This is the first ride I took.

Since then I am down 16 pounds, resting heart rate is averaging 55-60 and I am feeling a lot healthier. If you are on the fence about a Peloton I highly recommend picking one up, or trying out their app. My leaderboard name is Gatvol