Endomondo - Max speed

stuart_c-2

Hi,

Thought I'd chuck this in here as it seems that a lot of you use Endomondo, plus it's something that happens on my commute, so makes sense.

Got a HTC Wildfire yesterday and installed Endomondo in it last night. Rode into work this morning and when I looked at the "workout" on their website it said my max speed during the ride was 44mph. I do go down a couple of hills but surely just a glitch I thought. On the way home it said my max speed was 49mph. Again there is a hill, but come on now.

Now, the Cavendish in me would like to just sit back and basque in my awesomeness, but should I be looking for a problem here? Has anyone had these "optomistic" figures? Is it likely to be the phone or the software?

Cheers

EKE_38BPM

Wow, you're fast!

dhope

Combination of the two I guess.
GPS being a little jumpy and software not ironing out the peaks.
I get the same occasionally with Runkeeper on iPhone, recently it gifted me 36mph on a flat road on my commute from work. I felt good, but not that good.

Or just chalk it up to awesomeness. Did I tell you I regularly hit 36mph on the way home? Flat road and all.

gbsahne001

edmondo credited me with 25mph the other day on a 5 mile run. Didn't take it too seriously though.

notsoblue

You might be able to increase the GPS accuracy, so it only uses the fine signal rather than a more rough one. This is an option in Cardiotrainer, I suspect Endomondo will have the same.

rf6

I hit 56kmph (35mph if my maths is up to scratch) going down a fairly steep hill on my way too work today on a mtb with semi-slick tyres, so it does seem possible with a road bike.

Anyway, if it makes you feel good, who cares?

stuart_c-2

EKE_38BPM wrote:

Wow, you're fast!

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If only.

Well, it is on a 15 year old MTB on semi slicks so if it is true then I've obviously missed my calling in life. I've clocked 38mph on my main MTB before, using a cycle computer that seems to be pretty accurate from checks I've done. I'll just chalk it up to a glitch, but I'll probably still show my mates and give it the "Check me out".

wulfhound

There's an add on for Endomondo called Tracker Booster that supposedly improves the accuracy of the GPS on some models of phone.

stuart_c-2

wulfhound, just had a look on Android market and couldn't see that tracker booster.

That kinda puts me onto another point, I'm quite new to Android and it's market. Is the official Android market the only place you can get apps from? If I go Android.com/market on my computer it lists various apps that don't appear in the market when I access it through my phone. Am I being stupid? (Be nice )

SamWise1972

I can push over 30 on the flat; I'd imagine I can do 40 downhill. Yesterday, I was bombing down a not hugely steep hill on my way home, pulled my Blackberry out of my top pocket to see what Sportypal thought I was doing - 36 mph. Got home, ended the workout, and it told me my peak speed ws 20.5. Pah.

sc999cs

I just got 25km/h sitting at my desk! Started recording before it had fully locked onto the satellites I guess.

Isn't GPS inaccuracy one of the reasons the expensive Garmin Edge 500 bike computer uses a speed sensor as well? (I don't own one so don't know).

noisemonkey

Stuart_C wrote:

wulfhound, just had a look on Android market and couldn't see that tracker booster.

That kinda puts me onto another point, I'm quite new to Android and it's market. Is the official Android market the only place you can get apps from? If I go Android.com/market on my computer it lists various apps that don't appear in the market when I access it through my phone. Am I being stupid? (Be nice )

It only shows you the ones that are compatible with your version of android and phone.

wulfhound

http://sites.google.com/site/droidproje ... kerbooster

tbh, Endomondo works as well as I'd expect it to (free app on hardware not expressly designed to do the job) even without trackerbooster on my htc desire. The mapping is handy, the log of overall times is useful, but the calorie count is going to be sketchy with so little metabolic info to go on, the altitude reading doesn't seem to compute overall gain, etc.

Canny Jock

Yeah, endomondo used to give the odd high reading but most gps only ones do occasionally. Also, my Garmin went mad this morning, my 8.5 mile commute in had turned into 0.9, highest speed 17mph (the cheek) with an average of 105mph - work that out!

stuart_c-2

Well, I tried Cardiotrainer on the way home yesterday with the filter set on high and it only gifted me 30mph max. I think Endomondo is better for the soul.

I also didn't play with Cardiotrainer much, just downloaded and started it up. Spent the next half hour with some guy yapping in my ear every minute or so, "Training paused. Training started. 8.4 miles in....." I wanted to brain the guy by the time I got home. Note to self, play with settings BEFORE I use something. Found it amusing that it told me I'd burnt of 4 bananas on my journey home. Now if only I could change that so it told me how many choccy biccies I'd burnt off........

noisemonkey

try sportypal.. does seem to be more accurate plus there are more stats displayed before and after upload.

bendertherobot

http://www.endomondo.com/workouts/k_MBrZ2KipQ

Beat you all

Interestingly the maths appears spot on, i.e. average speed, time, distance etc.

Just that peak looks a bit off.

sketchley

My Garmin 305 clocked me at max 141 mph on ride a couple of weeks ago. :shock:

essexian

bendertherobot wrote:

http://www.endomondo.com/workouts/k_MBrZ2KipQ

Beat you all

Interestingly the maths appears spot on, i.e. average speed, time, distance etc.

Just that peak looks a bit off.

That's nothing....

http://www.endomondo.com/workouts/jFe2Rwudq5o

(okay, I was on the HS1 but I had my bike with me...)

SimonAH

I useB.iCycle on my iPhone and on runs with my boss using a cateye computer they are normally in close agreement

gruffdris

wildfires gps isnt that great, always get different reading between that and g1. give oruxmaps a try as it stores your maps instead of streaming everytime you go out

bendertherobot

gruffdris wrote:

wildfires gps isnt that great, always get different reading between that and g1. give oruxmaps a try as it stores your maps instead of streaming everytime you go out

Mine's a Desire. And Endomondo doesn't use maps as far as I know. It just overlays them when you upload.

jinnatganim

http://www.endomondo.com/workouts/311575429/12522466