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With whatever is leftover I'll help finance
@DopeyBadger 's futuristic tron-like running center.
This! ^ Most of this was posted back in 2016.
1) Rooms with floors that are treadmills and walls that are projection screens. Simulates full immersion running. Including air movement. And the floor is up off the ground which can allow the floor to match the running location both uphill and downhill. And saved times from previous runs that allow you to plant a "ghost" version of yourself in your current run from your best effort previously. They would be in front, next to, or behind you based on today's workout. It can also be synched with other runners around the world, so you can "run" with your friends.
2) Races with blind clocks and estimated finish time based on distance and current time. The clocks would be made similar to stop lights at 5 way stops (or angled 4 way stops) with the bars in the light to prevent sight lines when you shouldn't see them. Put this on a clock and allow people to go left to see the time and go right to not see the split time. But also include a second time clock that estimates current finishing time based on distance and current time. The clock would continuously update with your predicted finish time. You could even implement a real time screen at the mile splits that show people's names and current estimated finish time as they cross each split not based on gun time but chip time.
3) A track with RFID chips that track your runs, but also enable tv screens to move in front of you around the track. You get the track workout but with the tv in your upper sight line. Teaches you to keep your head up when running. The tracks the tvs are on would have to be able to pass each other as people pass others.
4) Training rooms with different conditions. Super sunny room. Super humid room. Super heated room. Super cold room. etc. All to maximize training.
5) Holographic projections of current place based on overall and age division in races. Now you can see what place you're in simply by looking over head of other runners. Is that guy in my division? What place am I in? Will I podium today?
6) Allow family/friends to submit videos/pictures in race that when you pass a timing mat it will recognize you and display the video/picture from your family up ahead of you (like 200m or so, so you see it coming).
7) An extensive indoor/outdoor training facility that simulates real road running in a controlled environment, but can keep you from the elements if needed.
8) An outdoor track with a built-in heater underneath. Melts the snow off the track when desired. Maybe robots to help clear it as well.
9) A system that allows you to place water/fluids along the route that becomes available as you approach it. Limits the need to carry items, but also keeps it safe from other people (darn people always stealing my stashed water bottles...)
10) 24/7 staff with personal trainers, nutritionists, and scientists at your disposal. Want a VO2max test, let's do it. Want to try a LT test, on it. Like a gait analysis, done. Want someone to help discuss your nutrition during daily life and during training/races, anytime you want.
11) Tracking devices that you can opt into that tracks countless metrics and helps track your data. Additionally, this data would serve the scientific community in making new discoveries/claims about sports performance.
Just a few ideas I've come up with.
@ZellyB already has called dibs on the first membership and thus will be receive a one year membership for free.
i wanted to follow up my post on strava premium features with another one i've finally got working the way i wanted; segments.
one of the features i really like about strava is it automatically compares runs on the same courses. and, within courses, you also can find portions that are designated at 'segments." these are created by folks with premium access but they can be made public. so you'll often see these pop up in your achievments when you run on routes that are pretty popular.
i wanted to use segments to build an automatic measure for my interval runs. and i think i finally succeeded. basically, if you do more than four intervals, it's a pain to record each and every split while you are also watching the clock to get your next run. the simplest solution, it seemed to me, is to just turn the garmin on and run the whole workout and let strava pick out the times on the interval distance itself.
so i ran my intervals this morning but deliberately did one out and one back as individual runs. then i went used those to crate two as separate "segments." i also designated these as 'private' so it's only for me to use.
here is one of the test runs that included one interval out, one interval back and one cool down effort on the distance. the "workout" records this as one single run, including all of the rest periods but i can now look at the segments, and get a breakdown of my individual splits.
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the real test will be doing the whole workout next week just relying on this. my hope is that with this recorded as a single workout i can then have a better way to look at my overall heart rate and cadence over the course of the whole effort.
Another option is programmed workouts on the Garmin. Then look at "laps" for Strava and you can see the individual splits. From the same workout -
Just mile splits:
"Laps" with programmed workout on Garmin watch:
