It’s a well know organizational truism, at least in Human Resources circles, that more layers means slower responsiveness. In other words, more layers of management, the more people have to review and approve something before anything can get done. That’s why small companies are “nimble” and big ones “slow and bureaucratic.”
Tonight, I have proved that the same holds true for layers of clothing worn while biking and one’s responsiveness in answering the cell phone. It is an absolute, nonrefutable fact that it is IMPOSSIBLE to answer a cell phone in the back pocket underneath the wind vest while wearing two pairs of gloves before it rolls to voicemail. Now you know, if you were wondering. Never mind that I sound like a complete imbecil trying to talk with my nose running and lips slightly numb from the cold. But I was out there riding and loving it, so it was well worth all the drama.
Thought you may want to know about this option on Motionbased.com since Ibeleive you use a Forerunner. Elevation via GPS device is usually very inaccurate unless it has a built in Barometer. The Forerunner does not, however if you upload it to Motionbased.com there is an option you can use under “Activity Options” called MB Gravity. this takes the GPS way points and compares them to a geological database with “accurate” elevation information “world wide” so now the elevation should be pretty close. I thought this was great and realized on my ride today of 95 miles we did 8,700 feet of climbing – much more than I thought we were doing. Just thought you may want to know – or maybe you already used this before?
Oh yeah! My husband found the gravity feature on motionbased a while ago. Amazing that such a thing is possible. Also amazing the elevation that adds up from rolling up and down hills all day!
Great job on 95 yesterday. You must have picked a hilly route to get 8700– usually I end up with 6k-7k with that distance.