Who’s going skiing and where 2019
Discussion
Due to heavy snow and unpleasant wind today my season finished with some lovely spring snow and empty pistes yesterday.
Given there has in the past been an interest in ski data in this thread in terms of speed / max speed but on season close I thought it was worth doing a quick review with my Garmin data to see what I did this season. This data is mostly accurate. I forgot to start it a few times until part way in and on a few occasions I ran out of battery. Data is from a Fenix 3.
total number of ski sessions: 64 over 60 days
total distance: 1323.31 km
estimated calories: 29125 (good it doesn't track post-ski beers or cake calorific input)
number of runs: 583
vertical drop: 259,153 m
On my first day, 8th November 2018 I managed a max of 80kmh and an average of 35.5. Yesterday, I was at 77.7kmh and 36.8 so almost the same. However this doesn't really tell the full story. My skiing is a lot better now with the biggest difference being edge angles / cleanness of turns. I would imagine if the Garmin measured this angle, number of turns / km or g-forces all would see big improvement. I'm contemplating getting something like a Carv for next year as I'm a data geek and think it would be fascinating.
In terms of purchases my only real one was a new pair of custom boots from Heierling in Davos. I spent 5 hours in total getting boots altered, stance / pressure measured and corrected and although expensive (about double the price of a top-end boot) I feel it was worth every penny / franc. Ski pass fortunately is at year-long local's rate which is about the same as 10 days for a tourist.
Given there has in the past been an interest in ski data in this thread in terms of speed / max speed but on season close I thought it was worth doing a quick review with my Garmin data to see what I did this season. This data is mostly accurate. I forgot to start it a few times until part way in and on a few occasions I ran out of battery. Data is from a Fenix 3.
total number of ski sessions: 64 over 60 days
total distance: 1323.31 km
estimated calories: 29125 (good it doesn't track post-ski beers or cake calorific input)
number of runs: 583
vertical drop: 259,153 m
On my first day, 8th November 2018 I managed a max of 80kmh and an average of 35.5. Yesterday, I was at 77.7kmh and 36.8 so almost the same. However this doesn't really tell the full story. My skiing is a lot better now with the biggest difference being edge angles / cleanness of turns. I would imagine if the Garmin measured this angle, number of turns / km or g-forces all would see big improvement. I'm contemplating getting something like a Carv for next year as I'm a data geek and think it would be fascinating.
In terms of purchases my only real one was a new pair of custom boots from Heierling in Davos. I spent 5 hours in total getting boots altered, stance / pressure measured and corrected and although expensive (about double the price of a top-end boot) I feel it was worth every penny / franc. Ski pass fortunately is at year-long local's rate which is about the same as 10 days for a tourist.
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