KBGhost said..
Anyone getting decent results with a sub $50 GPS watch/band/etc?
Now that I'm covering some k's in the water I wouldn't mind mapping track and ideally speed as well.
I have used just phone which I always take with me on down-winders. Google will give a basic tracking if enabled on android phone.
There are a fair few apps to do GPS tracking most have a physical training background so primarily based on that so running cycling swimming.
When my wife wanted a training partner for Hell of the West Triathlon, I loaded Runtastic & paid few $ for pro version.
This tracks what ever you are doing you manually start and stop it. I wanted the Pro version as it auto detects when you are not moving.
It is based on performance monitoring and gives a break down over time and distance with calorie counts etc it tracks speed and height change and gives charts of this plus GPS track on to google earth(maps) ... Primarily for running, It has a library of other activities you can log against so skiing, kiting, bike riding, etc this is symbolic - the output is basically the same.
Here is an example of the track which it does on Google - maps this is satellite view - screen dump from phone and resolution lowered.
The numbers are Kms. The track starts at Hervey bay in the carpark, goes to a sand island (used as the base for the day) with a loop to Fraser island. If interested can posted charts of same..
Cheers
AP
