My Strava Heatmaps on a Rest Day

Today I am resting. Yesterday afternoon I was planning to go for a bike ride with the easiest group and went with the hardest, after it was recommended that I do this. The result is that today I feel fine, but I’m still taking a rest day. Tomorrow I will have a physical 89 km ride with one thousand six hundred meters of climbing. I expect to be tired during the second climb.

The first climb will be challenging too. It is a climb I have done recently so I should pace myself well.

Geneva

If I look at Geneva I see that in the centre I have walked around most roads and streets, including many paths within the Palais Des Nations Gardens. If I look at Gruyères I can see that I have been along several paths.

Nyon and the Foot of the Jura

If I look at the roads between the foot of the Jura and the lake near Nyon then I see that I have very often walked along many of the roads. That’s because during the pandemic I explored all of them. If it wasn’t for cars this would be an excellent area for walking.

A Linear Path

You can see the linear walk I did between Grächen and Zermatt a few years ago. It’s one of the rare places where it’s linear, without too much exploring to the right and to the left of the line.

Calp to Denia

You can see that I cycled and walked quite regularly in the area between calpe and Denia. Usually you can tell where I walked because it doesn’t show up as much as where I have cycled.

St Moritz

You can see that I cycled around St Moritz several times as well, and that the distances covered on bikes were quite big.

Ingress Tracks

If I look at Fribourg, Firenze, Paris and Lausanne I can see where I tracked myself playing Ingress. If I look at London I can see where I cycled and where I walked.

Weekly and Monthly Coverage

If you feel like playing a game, every week, and every month you can try to cover each road that is within reach so that every road and street is red. It serves no purpose, other than as a personal challenge.

And Finally

When I look at the heat map for the area where I live I see that I have a lot of coverage. That’s because I have explored almost every road either on foot or by bike. As I cycle with the Nyon and Geneva groups my heatmap will spread too even more roads and paths. I am puzzled about some paths being a few lines rather than loops as I would expect them to be.

And Finally when you ride, day to day, you see what you did on that day. When you have a heatmap you can see what you do over the period of a week, a month, a season, a year. You can also see what you have done over a period of years, as is the case for me.

If you scale things up then this indicates where cycling and walking paths should be placed alongside roads.