Today I met my old nemesis: Gallagher’s Hill Run. I had done this a half dozen times over the years. It is a hilly course, dominated by a huge, steep hill about 2.5 km into the run. I still have not completely conquered that hill!
To show the hills in this course, I used my GPS-enabled BlackBerry to track my progress, which not only records my position, but my altitude as well. So I played around with the output KML file and loaded it into Google Earth:
The hill in the foreground is the killer. I also observed that the GPS accuracy was lower than my other runs. Might be due to my new armband I am using to hold my BlackBerry.
For the record the track is shown here (Google Maps can’t show altitude like Google Earth can):
Session:
Gallgher’s Hill Run: 6km in 34:50 minutes
With an extra 2km: 8km in 47 minutes
Results:
- Average Heart Rate: 161
- Max Heart Rate: 180
- Calories Burned: 827
