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[oddish3]

Hi!
Firstly thank you for your work on this, I think this is great.
Secondly, I am not really familiar with docker compose and "web-dev" but I've cloned the repo (separately to my own build) so that I can work on a PR that included various training metrics such as:

1. VO2 Max (Trends)

   • Track changes in VO2 max as an indicator of aerobic capacity and fitness level over time.

2. Training Load (TRIMP-based)

   • Chronic Training Load (CTL): Long-term fitness (average of recent training stress).
   • Acute Training Load (ATL): Short-term fatigue (recent workout load).
   • Training Stress Balance (TSB): Difference between CTL and ATL, indicating form (fatigue vs. fitness).

3. Heart Rate Variability (HRV)

   • Monitor HRV trends to assess recovery, autonomic nervous system balance, and overall readiness for training.

4. Relative Effort

   • Assess intensity in relation to your fitness level, combining heart rate and duration of exercise.

5. Heart Rate Drift

   • Track heart rate drift over longer runs to assess aerobic efficiency and endurance under fatigue.

6. Heart Rate vs. Pace (HR vs. Pace)

   • Evaluate how heart rate increases at different paces to gauge cardiovascular efficiency.

7. Cadence vs. Heart Rate

   • Analyze how cadence (stride rate) correlates with heart rate to identify inefficiencies in running form.

8. Resting Heart Rate (RHR) Trends

   • Monitor resting heart rate to gauge overall recovery and cardiovascular health.

9. Elevation vs. Heart Rate

   • Compare heart rate response to elevation changes during runs, helping to assess endurance and strain during hilly runs.

10. Race Pace Simulation

    • Compare actual training paces to target race paces to simulate race performance and adjust pacing strategy.

11. Max Heart Rate (HRmax) Analysis

    • Track changes in HRmax (via field tests or HR monitoring) to assess fitness improvements and track race-specific intensity zones.

12. Polarized Training Distribution

    • Track the balance between low-intensity, moderate-intensity, and high-intensity efforts to ensure proper training distribution

But I am not sure how to reload this into the app. Do i need to restart the container and import the data and build the site again?

If anyone is interested in this, I'd appreciate working together on this.

It goes without saying that this isn't for commercial use, but just metrics I would like to know, from my strava data.

[oddish3]

PS, another thing I would like to change is too much smoothing (of elevation/pace/ HR data on a ~5k run), I suspect this is because it's mainly geared towards cycling where rides are typically longer.

[robiningelbrecht]

Hi @oddish3,

I'm always interested in adding more functionality and features and I would appreciate your help with this.
Keep in mind that I'd like to keep "Statistics for Strava" about statistics. I don't want this project to evolve into some kind of training app ;).

That being said, would you be willing to work on the features you laid out? If so, a separate PR per feature would be great!

PS, another thing I would like to change is too much smoothing (of elevation/pace/ HR data on a ~5k run), I suspect this is because it's mainly geared towards cycling where rides are typically longer.

The app indeed uses a smoothing algorithm, so this algorithm can be fine-tuned if needed. Feel free to open a new issue to address this.

[robiningelbrecht]

@oddish3 do you happen to use discord? We have a discord server set up to discuss features and improvements

[robiningelbrecht]

@oddish3 this is the discord server invite link: https://discord.gg/p4zpZyCHNc

[oddish3]

Thankyou!

This is the repository where i have made the changes.
I am not familiar with php, but even if i try to change "Dashboard" so "Oddish3's Dashboard" I am still not even sure how to do this and how to reload /rebuild to be able to see this on the first page as an example

https://github.com/oddish3/statistics-for-strava

[DanGarion]

I like this app a lot! It did take me about 3 hours of trial and error to get it to work as a stack in Portainer, though, due to some weirdness with the supplied env. Probably my own fault for trying to run it like the other 30 apps I have already running on this box. It was frustrating, but I don't give up easily. I did end up having to run the import and build commands in my container because I couldn't track down why I kept getting an error with the config.

Come to find out the Athlete Weight History section seems to be required, and its format was causing my env not to get set. It would be nice to not have to insert all your weight history as I was pulling Strava data from as far back as 2013, and heck if I know what I weighed back then...

With that said, I did get it working, and I like that I have something off of Strava to look at now.

[robiningelbrecht]

Hi @DanGarion,

Sorry to hear it took you a lot of time for you to set it up. Is there something we can do (update docs, flow, ...) to make it easier?
Also, for your weight history, if you don't care you can just set it to

{
  "1970-01-01": 80
}

That way all of your activities will use the same weight

[DanGarion]

I've been thinking about it since I installed last week and so far the product manager in me (my day job) hasn't put anything together to report. I will try to put some thought in it to share later this week if I can.