I analyzed my exercise data from 2023

I analyzed my exercise data from 2023(kevinkle.in)

3 points by kkleindev 2 years ago | 4 comments

rfarley04 2 years ago |

How are you syncing/storing the data?

I've been a Garmin user for nearly a decade and would really like to get the data off their platform so I can do more with it.

There are a few self-hosted options (https://github.com/tcgoetz/GarminDB seems like the best) but I keep kicking that can down the road.

kkleindev 2 years ago | |

It might sound silly but I've found it to work quite well for me: I store the (rather coarse) data on these exercise activities in my Google calendar.

I also do some more fine-grained analyses (e.g. looking at heart rates) via Garmin and Strava but for cross-discipline comparisons I mostly rely on my calendar entries.

I've found the calendar to be extremely reliable -- knock on wood -- over long time horizons (I have exercise data going back to 2016). Also, it's very flexible. I store additional metadata, e.g. the distance of a run, in the event description.

At some point I explained this a bit more in this post: https://kevinkle.in/posts/2018-10-21-running-log/

rfarley04 2 years ago | | |

This is pretty much exactly what I've been wanting to do for years. Love the calendar solution.

Still not sure I understand how you're getting the data off wearables and into the calendar events, though (manual? custom API calls? Garmin's API isn't very friendly for extracting metrics).