Windows Phone Thoughts: Running on 'Full': Marathon 1.0.1.3

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Wednesday, November 4, 2009

Running on 'Full': Marathon 1.0.1.3

Posted by Don Tolson in "Pocket PC Software" @ 08:30 AM

Setup and Configuration - Cont'd

Figure 6: Two types of charts can be displayed on the Main screen. Bar charts compare changes in altitude, distance traveled, etc. for selected intervals, depending upon what information you've selected. Linear shows the same information, but in a regular line graph.

Figure 7: For Bar charts, you can set the time interval between measurements (bars) from 5 to 25 minutes.

Figure 8: Here's an example of bar charts as shown on the main screen. No, I wasn't running underwater, but I was walking next to the sea wall here in the Victoria Harbour and GPS satellites are notorious for getting confused about heights close to sea level.

Figure 9: Here's the same chart shown in linear mode.

Figure 10: The units menu allows you to select how rates/speeds will be displayed on the main screen.

Figure 11: Personally, the default power management settings worked well for me, but you may have other requirements. I definitely agree with the help text that allowing the GPS receiver to turn off while in standby mode will produce unexpected and unusable results. Generally, I found Marathon to be fairly frugal with the battery, even with the GPS and screen on during use.

Figure 12: File menu. This is where you can open a previously saved set of sprint results, define a time goal for yourself, or select a previously traveled track, to compare results.

Figure 13: Selecting a track. I haven't defined any yet, but I could, for instance, define our regular 'lake walk' or the 'dog walk' as a track. I suppose my bike ride to work could be defined as a track, but I'm not competitive enough to want to track whether I'm going faster one day vs. the next.

Figure 14: Diagnostic logging for the GPS can be turned on to help with tracking problems. The default is Error (as shown) to only log when an error occurs. You can also select Normal or Verbose to provide increasing levels of detail. Unfortunately, the application doesn't tell you where the log files are kept. (They're in /Program Files/Marathon/Logs, named with the current date and an extension of .log). The log files are in plain text and can be reviewed with Notepad or other text file reader.


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