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I ride a bicycle more than 200 miles a week during the summer and now that it is becoming winter going to attempt at least 150 miles a week until spring... https://www.strava.com/athlete...

So with this news, I'm going to start smoking and triple up on my sugar and sodium intake.

This is the best news I've heard all year!

If you do any science to prove that humans are causing global warming, you are going to find causes that prove humans are causing global. If you are interested in finding ghosts, you are eventually are going to find evidence that ghosts exist, especially if you are being paid loads of money to find ghosts.

Sure humans are contributing to increased CO2 in the atmosphere by burning fossil fuel. Which one of these people pushing their agenda on global warming have stopped burning fossil fuel. I would fathom a guess, none of them. I can't prove my guess as it is only a guess. But looking at everyone's reliance on fossil fuel, I would say pretty accurate. I on the other hand have reduced my burning of fossil fuel in at least in transportation to almost nothing. Here is proof... https://www.strava.com/athlete...

I still burn natural gas to heat my home in the winter and burn natural gas to heat water all year long.

If there wants to be 100% proof that humans are the cause of 100% of the global warming recorded, you would have to study 100% of the causes of global warming and that isn't being done. Only a small fraction of the causes at this time are being studied. I do agree that humans are contributing to it, thus my drastically reducing my footprint when NOBODY else is doing it. But I do believe that the human contribution to global warming is small compared to all the other contributing factors, known and unknown at this time, are not worth the time and energy being spent trying to prove humans are the cause of everything.

If you want to do something about it... Show us how much you have reduced your burning of fossil fuel. Talk it cheap.

One lousy cyclist?? How do those out-of-shape bums expect to chase down the escaping aliens?!?

Seriously though, it looks like the heat map goes to the granularity of a single single user? I think the app lets you do that already, but it's more than a little creepy from the whole privacy angle. I'm not sure how I'd feel about my daily route sitting there on a map.

I now ride 5,000+ miles a year... https://www.strava.com/athlete... [strava.com] and can only average about 20 miles a day not 70 - 110 miles.

I'm sure you're right that this is bullshit, but technically he didn't say he averaged 70-110 miles a day, only that he regularly cycled 70-110 miles a day.

If I cycled 100 miles one Saturday a month I could legitimately say I regularly cycled 100 miles in a day.

I'm calling bullshit on you. There is 0% chance that you are carrying that much weight and riding 70 - 110 miles in a day. ZERO. I'm 6' 1" and when my doctor told me I needed blood pressure medication because of my weight and was possibly going to have a heart attack in 6 months, I told him I was going to do something about my weight, I was 215 at the time. So I decided to scratch the rust of the bicycle I had hanging in my garage for the last 10 years with out being touched.

The best that I could do was 0.1 of a mile a day. It took me 3 months to ride more than 0.2 of a mile from when I started. and I was only pushing 23% BMI. It took me years to rid more than 10 miles in a day.

Here are pictures of the weight loss in the first 4 months of riding to work every day only about 11 miles a day... http://wiki.xkcd.com/geohashin...

I now ride 5,000+ miles a year... https://www.strava.com/athlete... and can only average about 20 miles a day not 70 - 110 miles. I also out ride the pro's at the bicycle shops, and don't ever gain weight.

I eat all my coworkers under the table. They are amazed how much I eat and maintain ~180 lbs. If you are regularly riding 70 - 110 miles and not around 140 - 150 lbs., I'm calling serious bullshit on you.

There is no possible way you can be overweight and ride that much. None.

Nathan

I agree that the effort you have to put in has to be pretty low and the value of the feedback you get has to be better. There are some things where this is already the case. And, if you add in a social aspect it can actually be fun and compelling. For tracking your bike rides and runs, check out Strava - http://www.strava.com./ It does really still appeal to those who are already pretty motivated to ride. But it does stoke up that motivation a little. It is sort of addictive to see how you are doing, and they really do provide enough value in their feedback. They will be on the panel at the VLAB event discussing personal analytics businesses at Stanford - http://www.vlab.org/article.html?aid=438.