Digging out old data

At a friend's prompting, I spelunked through a bunch of old Garmin tracks that I recorded in the aughts when I did a lot of road biking. I used to put a lot of the stats online, too, but that ended in 2007 when I switched braverman.org entirely to this blog.

Anyway, I uploaded some of the tracks to my Garmin account, and now I want to go for a very long bike ride of the type I used to do before my knees told me not to. For example, my longest rides of 2006 (120 km) and 2007 (128 km) were both in preparation for Century rides that, sadly, never happened. (In 2006, my gallbladder exploded a week before the Century, and in 2007, my mother died two days before it.)

Another cool thing: Weather Now has a lot of historical data (registration required), so I was also able to add weather notes to the old tracks.

I've also started recovering old Fitbit walks, like the 20-miler I did in July 2018. (I previously posted about this walk when it happened.) Fitbit is now owned by Google, which only has GPS tracks available through the mobile app, and a horrible interface for finding them. So I've only added a few of them to my Garmin account, but I'll continue to add them whenever I get bored.