So for my birthday I got a new toy for my bike. Its a Garmin GPS designed for cycling and it has a Heartrate monitor as well as cadence and wheel speed sensors. When combined with some cool software such as Ascent or a web service called MotionBased, it really shows you all the details of your ride. With Ascent I can replay my ride with a heads up display showing me all sensor data that had been recorded on my ride at any speed interval as my course is overlayed on various types of maps, similar to Google Earth. I then take my data and upload it to a service called MotionBased, which is a web service for sharing workout information. This shows a little overview of Ascent

Here is a still image showing my ride, and in the app this is actually animated with speed and location controls.

Here I can compare my heart rate in red, to my speed in green and my altitude, all this at the same time as i’m viwing my map animation.

Here is a link to my profile on MotionBased which shows similar information, but in a web format.

http://trail.motionbased.com/trail/activity/2805054