Comments on: Endomondo for Downhill Skiing

By: The Wisconsin Skier

The Wisconsin Skier — Mon, 24 Feb 2014 13:36:46 +0000

In reply to Carlos.

Carlos,

Good question and I will have to research that. I currently assume, chair time is assumed as being half of the activity for calorie calculations. I know AlpineReplay also reports on calories and AlpineReplay does report on chair time vs. actual skiing time, so I suppose they then also factor in the difference between chair & ski time for calorie calculations. Next time I am out, I will run both and compare.

I typically run AlpineReplay and maybe Google MyTracks when I am skiing, MyTracks reports on min & max grades a good number for skiers and bikers.

Thanks for stopping in and commenting, I appreciate it and hope to explore the calorie calculation algorithms these applications use.

By: Carlos

Carlos — Mon, 24 Feb 2014 11:45:58 +0000

Does anyone know if Endomodon discounts the use of ski-lifts in the calory calculator?
I keep the GPS tracker turn on all the time (its painful to switch on and off, plus I would forget more often than not), which means that I have, for example, 5h of skiing tracked and 30 miles, while in reality its 50% skiing, 50% sitting confortably on a lift.
The 2000cal/day burned suggests it doesn’t. Maybe the alternative is to manually change the practice dividing the miles and time by two (or maybe 1,8 as lifts go straight while slopes do have their turns).

Cheers

By: The Wisconsin Skier

The Wisconsin Skier — Mon, 14 Jan 2013 03:49:12 +0000

In reply to Wolfy.

Man of Bacon,

Thanks for commenting here!

Anyway, I have run into the situation you describe, I have a dorky moment and I fail to turn tracking off. When I finally get it turned off, I have 30 miles of driving in on top the track I am interested in.

I suspect this is a feature they could add on the website side of things.

Also, I am interested how you find it useful when backcountry skiing. I suppose when skiing backcountry speed is not quite the stat you are interested in. Did you do a writeup on it your site?

Thanks again!

By: Wolfy

Wolfy — Fri, 11 Jan 2013 15:01:09 +0000

I have used it for DH skiing. There are too many gaps in GPS coverage. Also, turns out I don’t really care to know the data from my resort days.

I do care about it in the backcountry though, and it works well for that.

Until these apps let you delete the drive home from the trailhead after you forget to turn them off, they we useless to me.

-Mike