Saturday, April 26, 2008

Screenshots

I've made some good progress this week. There's a lot more to go but it's a start. The training calendar is kind of working (it shows training sessions but you can't 'open' then yet). The session summary is kind of there too.

Anyway, here are a few pictures to get things rolling.

Training Calendar

Kind of "Outlooky". I'm not sure how to handle daily summary info on month views.



Most people know how Outlook handles meetings. Training sessions are considered the same. Here's a week view.

Training Summary

Here, the last month of training (not quite representative as I've had flu and not been training for the last two weeks. The empty dates still need to be shown on the chart and currently aren't) The activity colors on the lower two charts don't match yet but that's on the list of things to fix-up too.


Session Detail

It's not joined up yet but clicking on a calendar entry will display a chart like this.


It's likely that the tabular data will be hidden (and tidied up to a precision of 2 decimal places).

This example session was recorded when my chest strap was suffering the well-known broken contact problen. The speeds are low and the end heart rate shows that I died :-)

2 comments:

kxux said...

As a Polar and Suunto user I find the Suunto software extremely basic and lacking most of functions I find in Polar software. I like your idea to build an extension to show the workout data a little better and help with the workout analysis. Few ideas that you may consider for the design:

1. Sport heart rate zones (I run, bike and swim and one zone for all just does not work for me)
2. By sport reports - e.g. split the different sports defined in STraM
3. Summary page - calendar view could show summary by sport and time in HR zones for the week
4. The workout planning is a nice idea, but I think not of much use since the T6 does not have guided workouts (like the RS800 from Polar has. I'm not talking about the pacing, HR zone limits or interval timers). If you include it though it would be interesting to see how closely the actual workout matched the planned one.

I may come up with few more if you are interested. My primary monitor is Polar, but I use Suunto for swimming and sometimes when I do just basic run and do not need guided workout feature of Polar watch. So you may count me as a non-typical Suunto user.

Me said...

Thanks. Currently the HR zones are just those that are defined in STraM. There's no reason why we can have multiple ones.

For #2 do you mean easy selection of sport types for review and/or reporting?

#3 - I'll see what I can do about that. TO some extent I have to work within the calendar framework (I didn't write from scratch) but something should be possible.

#4 I've never used at all.