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Desire for a normalized running speed metric accounting for elevation

💚 healthproduct problemSingle report ●●●●● severity 2/5

A beginner runner finds it difficult to gauge their performance across different routes because they lack a metric that accounts for elevation changes, making it hard to compare effort on hilly versus flat terrain.

Who's affected: A beginner runner

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What people do today

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Ideas a builder, maker or community group could start on:

  1. A mobile app plugin that calculates 'Grade Adjusted Pace' (GAP) in real-time using GPS and elevation data.
  2. A wearable device widget that displays a normalized effort score based on heart rate and incline.
  3. A web-based route analysis tool where users upload GPX files to receive a normalized speed report for their run.
I want to build this

Real voices

“running uphill is noticeably harder than on flat surfaces, and up is harder than down is easier. This made me wonder whether there is a normalized speed where the current slope would be taken into account”

Source: Stack Exchange (fitness) · CC BY-SA 4.0, user-contributed content from Stack Exchange; summarized and modified

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