Arosa ClassicCar 2009

The Arosa ClassicCar, a international car race from Langwies to Arosa was over the weekend of  10. to 13. September 2009. It is also called the “Monaco of the mountains”. It has grown in recent years, and is a event known across Switzerland and provides many highlights.
The event is listed in the national sports calendar (auto sport Switzerland) and in the international sports calendar of the FIA (Federation International de l’Automobile). Every year around 10 ‘ 000 spectators are expected.

We started at 7am to get to Arosa before the first race starts. The last part of the way to Arosa is the actual race track so we got a feeling of the race itself. Below are some impressions of this day.

More pictures are in the gallery.

Mapping the Morning Run

Recently I came across a new Silverlight Application which let’s you analyze and compare GPS tracks. It is called “Speed on Map“. You can upload your tracks and you can even save your project to your local hard disk.

The webapplication can create different chart types and is very usefull to examine your training. Below you can see a few examples from my last run.

The color-coding of the GPS track shows the different speeds. Green is faster and red is slower. The second graph shows the speed profile of the run.

In the last chart is the histogram of the different speeds.  One can quickly see that the average is at about 6 km/h.