Getting more sleep is irrefutably a good thing for my overall health. Today, though, I slept away my chance to get on the bike. By the time I got out of bed, another nasty line of thunderstorms was about to hit West Bend with more rain that we don’t need. I was determined not to let the remainder of the day go to waste, even if I did have to spend it indoors.
Here was an opportunity to use my new Garmin Instinct to track an activity I couldn’t track before: floor climbing. Last week I did a short test of this feature, climbing 20 flights at home. That’s 20 trips from the first floor to the second floor, and back again. Garmin gave me credit for only 18 flights (90%). Today, I went longer: 50 flights. Garmin’s accuracy was even worse, as I was credited with only 43 flights (86%). But I guess it’s close enough. There just isn’t that much elevation change between the two floors of my home. I’ll bet the accuracy is better outdoors. And given that I performed today’s test during a thunderstorm, I suppose there’s a chance that Garmin was thrown off by rapid air pressure changes. Garmin does advise against descending too soon after reaching a higher level, as the tracker may need several seconds to detect a pressure change. Air pressure changes during the storm may have blinded my device to some of the 7 climbs it omitted from my official total.
Today’s effort, while imperfectly measured, was sufficient to earn me a new Garmin Connect badge.
“Virtual Climb - The Narrows” is one of four badges available for floor climbing. It will be the only one I earn at home! If today’s performance is a good indication of the effort required for each of these, then the shortest of the three that remain would take me about three hours and 100 trips up and down my staircase.
No, thanks!
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