Hey Kim,

Yep that was the day we went up the south side. The Polar software holds all your info so you can go back and look at it, overlay graphs of the same ride etc. I kind of keep in my head my best numbers. On our first trip to Morgan Territory on the tandem, it took us 43 minutes to get out to the end of Deer Valley - 9.2 miles. Our best time is 33 minutes now. Most of the time it's around 36. You and I did it in 37.
I've watched my personal average speed go from about 12 to 16 when I'm riding with Jay. (He's really good to draft!) It's around 15 when I'm by myself and not climbing a mountain! Mostly I use the software to track my mileage. I like to do a hundred miles a week - that's been tough lately.

My heart rate tends to drop to the low 100s on descents - it drops even more when I'm on the tandem. During the Holstein Hundred I was watching it - it got down to 85 on one of the long descents!

Thom did all the research for buying our monitors. Mine was a surprise gift when I first started to lose weight. It's actually the 610 so doesn't have the cycling features, but does download to the computer. I use Thom's (the 710) when I'm by myself. It's cool that you can have multiple people in them and multiple bikes. I want to set it up for my mountain bike as well, but just haven't gotten around to it. It's pricey, but I like being able to look back and see how many miles I've ridden, what the terrain was like etc.

Veronica