Sport Tracks - Help Needed

[cyclingfan]

I am new to Sport Tracks.  Can someone tell me what must my settings for the Climbing Zones be.

[pbp2007]

Off the top of my head, I have set my climb zone thresholds at -2 % for descending and +2% for ascending.

 

In other words, anything less than -2 % is recorded as a descent, anything greater than +2 % as an ascent. Grades between -2 and +2 are regarded as essentially flat.

 

I find that this filters out a lot of the "noise" caused by road bumps, minor drags/slopes and GPS errors. On the other hand, if you simply set your threshold to 0, you'll probably wind up with impressive-looking (but not necessarily meaningful) climb/descend totals.

 

Once you've recorded a workout, play around with the climb settings and notice the effect on your ascent/descent totals. As you probably have seen, one of the advantages of SportTracks is that you can correct workout data, including GPS track, heart rate and elevation. On SportTracks 2 there is an elevation correction plugin as well, to further optimise your elevation data.

 

If this hasn't answered your question, feel free to PM me.