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 "content_md": "# Moar power?\n\n\n<p>If I really smash it I can hit 0.18 <a href=\"http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Horsepower\">horsepower</a>!</p>\n<p><a href=\"http://jsfiddle.net/mnUWA/35/\"><img class=\"alignnone  wp-image-1403\" title=\"click the image to go to the real thing\" alt=\"A scatter plot of workout power outputs\" src=\"https://notionparallax.co.uk/assets/powerGraph.png\" width=\"100%\" /></a></p>\n<p>I've been meaning to try using d3 a bit more proper like after I skimmed it for <a title=\"My nearest…\" href=\"http://notionparallax.co.uk/?p=1348\">_my nearest_</a> a few weeks ago. I've got the <a href=\"http://shop.oreilly.com/product/0636920026938.do\">Interactive Data Visualization</a> for the Web book by Scott Murray, and I read it as prose, then jumped straight into the middle of it and tried the code examples and I really should have worked through it methodically. (Maybe feeling stupid will give me some motivation now!)</p>\n<p> </p>\n<p><a title=\"This will take you to a fiddle\" href=\"http://jsfiddle.net/mnUWA/35/\">This graph</a> displays my workouts since I started tracking them using Beyond the whiteboard 6 months ago</p>\n<ul>\n<li>The x axis is length of workout, i.e. how long it took me to complete it.</li>\n<li>The y Axis is the wattage as calculated by BTW</li>\n<li>The blue line shows the line of best fit between the filtered workouts</li>\n</ul>\n<p>To use it, just set the slider to the time window that you are interested in.</p>\n<p>There is still a lot to do in terms of interactivity.</p>\n<ul>\n<li>Names shown on roll over - not all the time</li>\n<li>a slider to control the date window</li>\n<li>maybe a way of showing a number of best fit lines for different time windows to see if there is improvement.</li>\n<li>I'd like to also try changing it to a curve of best fit eventually.</li>\n</ul>\n<p>The data is scraped from their website, so isn't live (snapshot taken on 2013-06-05).</p>\n<h2>The why story</h2>\n<p>Recently I've been having a bit of a cry at the gym, I feel a bit like I'm slipping backwards in terms of work capacity.</p>\n<p>Being a big <a href=\"http://quantifiedself.com/\">QS</a> nerd I've been tracking my performance since I started[^1] with <a href=\"http://beyondthewhiteboard.com\">beyond the whiteboard</a> so I have the historical data on how I've been performing.</p>\n<p>Looking at the results I can see that what's really happening is that I'm progressing, but not as fast as the people around me. A bit like being on a train that's being overtaken by another one; you feel like you are going backwards, but really you are going forwards! It's a pretty simple three step process for improving more though:</p>\n<ol>\n<li><span style=\"line-height: 13px;\">fix my diet</span></li>\n<li>harden up and rest less between bits of doing</li>\n<li>profit</li>\n</ol>\n<hr style=\"background: #EEEEEE; border: 0; height: 7px;\" />\n\n[^1]: apart for a bit of a lapse a couple of weeks ago :(\n",
 "content_html": "<h1>Moar power?</h1>\n<p>If I really smash it I can hit 0.18 <a href=\"http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Horsepower\">horsepower</a>!</p>\n<p><a href=\"http://jsfiddle.net/mnUWA/35/\"><img class=\"alignnone  wp-image-1403\" title=\"click the image to go to the real thing\" alt=\"A scatter plot of workout power outputs\" src=\"https://notionparallax.co.uk/assets/powerGraph.png\" width=\"100%\" /></a></p>\n<p>I’ve been meaning to try using d3 a bit more proper like after I skimmed it for <a title=\"My nearest…\" href=\"http://notionparallax.co.uk/?p=1348\"><em>my nearest</em></a> a few weeks ago. I’ve got the <a href=\"http://shop.oreilly.com/product/0636920026938.do\">Interactive Data Visualization</a> for the Web book by Scott Murray, and I read it as prose, then jumped straight into the middle of it and tried the code examples and I really should have worked through it methodically. (Maybe feeling stupid will give me some motivation now!)</p>\n<p> </p>\n<p><a title=\"This will take you to a fiddle\" href=\"http://jsfiddle.net/mnUWA/35/\">This graph</a> displays my workouts since I started tracking them using Beyond the whiteboard 6 months ago</p>\n<ul>\n<li>The x axis is length of workout, i.e. how long it took me to complete it.</li>\n<li>The y Axis is the wattage as calculated by BTW</li>\n<li>The blue line shows the line of best fit between the filtered workouts</li>\n</ul>\n<p>To use it, just set the slider to the time window that you are interested in.</p>\n<p>There is still a lot to do in terms of interactivity.</p>\n<ul>\n<li>Names shown on roll over - not all the time</li>\n<li>a slider to control the date window</li>\n<li>maybe a way of showing a number of best fit lines for different time windows to see if there is improvement.</li>\n<li>I'd like to also try changing it to a curve of best fit eventually.</li>\n</ul>\n<p>The data is scraped from their website, so isn’t live (snapshot taken on 2013-06-05).</p>\n<h2>The why story</h2>\n<p>Recently I’ve been having a bit of a cry at the gym, I feel a bit like I’m slipping backwards in terms of work capacity.</p>\n<p>Being a big <a href=\"http://quantifiedself.com/\">QS</a> nerd I’ve been tracking my performance since I started<sup id=\"fnref:1\" role=\"doc-noteref\"><a href=\"https://notionparallax.co.uk/2013/moar-power#fn:1\" class=\"footnote\" rel=\"footnote\">1</a></sup> with <a href=\"http://beyondthewhiteboard.com\">beyond the whiteboard</a> so I have the historical data on how I’ve been performing.</p>\n<p>Looking at the results I can see that what’s really happening is that I’m progressing, but not as fast as the people around me. A bit like being on a train that’s being overtaken by another one; you feel like you are going backwards, but really you are going forwards! It’s a pretty simple three step process for improving more though:</p>\n<ol>\n<li><span style=\"line-height: 13px;\">fix my diet</span></li>\n<li>harden up and rest less between bits of doing</li>\n<li>profit</li>\n</ol>\n<hr style=\"background: #EEEEEE; border: 0; height: 7px;\" />\n\n<div class=\"footnotes\" role=\"doc-endnotes\">\n  <ol>\n    <li id=\"fn:1\" role=\"doc-endnote\">\n      <p>apart for a bit of a lapse a couple of weeks ago :( <a href=\"https://notionparallax.co.uk/2013/moar-power#fnref:1\" class=\"reversefootnote\" role=\"doc-backlink\">&#8617;</a></p>\n    </li>\n  </ol>\n</div>\n",
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