Measuring the hilliness of bike routes
August 25th, 2006 by Tim GrahlWhen I first bought a GPS system it was all about not getting lost. I was riding some trails that were not well mapped and the GPS helped me get a birds eye view for where I was going. Once I became familiar with the trails and settled into a regular rotation, the GPS became overkill and I stopped carrying it.
Well, Dr. P (a regular riding buddy and one time GC contributor) received a new GPS system from his lovely wife this past weekend for his birthday. We took it out on a trail that we have ridden a hundred times. Now Dr. P is a data guy. Once he got that bad boy back home he instantly downloaded the data and began slicing and dicing it like crazy. He dumped it into Excel and began calculating the tangent of the cosign of the hypotenuse of the derivative of 2/3 of a rhombus to the 2nd power.





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