The Horse Forum banner

Logging 2012 Miles How far did you go?

69K views 1K replies 46 participants last post by  pony gal 
#1 ·
I had a blast logging miles for the year 2011 on Biscuit. Celeste and Phantom were interested in keeping it going so here we go. Hope Nokota and SailorGriz join in - they always have fun rides!!! Post your GPS trails, pictures, and descriptions of your rides here...can't wait to see where our travels take us in 2012!

Is it possible to get a sticky on this, mods?
 
#10 ·
PM me your email and I will send it. I just redid one for ease of use....will add up each month, keep a running total, set a goal for the year and a miles to go to reach goal. It is in excell and purple at that. It is not locked so you can change anything on it that you wish.
 
#11 ·
What a great idea!! I'm going to make sure to start keeping track of the miles I go with my horse, as well as when I go out with just dog. I have a garmin, I've only used it for directions for in my car, I had no idea you could use it like this though.
 
#14 ·
I have the Garmin eTrex Venture HC which is a mapping GPS for the trails. Don't know about the Nuvi. I know they use those in cars so I don't know how mobile they are. I would assume their power supply is plugged into the car and not batteries that would make it portable.

Tracking miles with the Garmin is a blast. I have become a total addict to it.:)
 
#15 ·
Hmm this one does have batteries, I didn't know they had special Garmins for hiking though! I almost got excited that it would have multiple uses, haha. Oh well. I think I have a tracker on my phone for running, I imagine it would work the same for horses.
 
#17 ·
I'll have to play around with it, it would be fun if it did work!That's the problem with my running tracker too, it kills batterys.
 
#18 ·
I want to keep track of my riding this year too. It will be my first time doing it. :)

The question I have is this- is it better to keep track of miles or hours?

My friend has AQHA horses and so she keeps track of hours for their trail riding program. I'm not a part of any riding program like that, but still planned on logging hours.

Would miles be better?

The only reason I think I like hours is it would be easier. I always pretty well know when I start riding and when I get back, but mileage (which would be nice) means I have to restart the tracking on my GPS each ride, which I often forget to do. And then on rides where I know where I am going I often leave the GPS turned off.

So I don't know. I think hours might make more sense for me. What do you guys think?
 
#19 ·
I would say it is entirely up to you and what is more meaningful to you. For me it was miles and the actual trail we were on.

I reset my GPS and know know enough about it to just reset the trip part and not the total odometer. Hopefully I can keep that running total right on the GPS of how many miles I have rode on Biscuit.
 
#20 ·
I wish the GPS had actual directions. I spend most of the time just trying to figure out how to make it work Like how do you get it to pause ? and then restart? I can turn it off to get it to pause, but then it doesnt start up again. LIke when I finish my ride how do I get the thing to stop counting distance and having my speed average steadily decline ?
Greatest tool in the world totally sucks without decent directions.
I like the way you said I could change anything on the spreadsheet,:lol:
Only thing I can change is a working spread sheet into a nonworking one. I al cant do anything with excel, I liked the sheet, any way you can delete the goals and add speed each day and an average speed ?
 
#21 ·
Hahahah Joe you are a riot. I don't know how to pause my GPS either. I don't know if there is such a thing.

I have a Trip Computer page on my Garmin Venture HC. I have it set to record miles on the trip odometer, speed (which is at the current rate and it of course fluctuates, moving time, max speed, stopped, (I think this shows the minutes/hours that you are standing still - hahaha, not really totally sure on that one!) moving average speed, time of day and Odometer which keeps a running tally of miles.

I have other choices such as elevation but because I live on the coast on the flat land I couldn't care less about that. I would change that if I were riding some place where it mattered.

Joe, I can lock the cells if that will help you. That way you can't delete the formulas but can add data. I can remove the goal and add speed and average speed.
 
#22 ·
Well my lazy frozen southern rear made it 3.44 miles before wimping out in the 45 degree day. It was so windy that the horses were total bundles of nerves. They were snorting and blowing the whole way. We pretty much kept a slow pace. I was amazed that a covey of quail flew up in our faces and they didn't really react that much.

January 2 –

3.44 miles
max speed 7.5 mph moving time 55 minutes 30 sec
Moving average 3.7 mph
 
#25 ·
237 miles on my mare.
5 miles on our stallion
14.5 miles on my Nephew's Nokota
86 miles on "Chuck" The horse I rode Mountain Lion hunting in Arizona.(no report or pics posted yet, been just too busy)
Total of 342 miles in 2011.


Going to be just too cold over the next few days to ride. 11 tonite and 4 tomorrow nite.
 
#26 ·
QOS - I would like to be able to look at your spreadsheet, I'm working on making one to track my miles for this year, but would like to see an explain of a working.
I'm hoping tracking my miles this year if the weather every lets up.
 
This is an older thread, you may not receive a response, and could be reviving an old thread. Please consider creating a new thread.
Top