So I was looking at my Vibram FiveFingers Bikila LS shoes and noticed that they started to wear a fair bit on the soles. I then got curious as to how many miles I had put on them. I also have a Garmin Forerunner 305 that I wear on every run, so I figured this should be easy. brrrrp Wrong!
The Garmin Training Center software lists the totals for my activities, but includes ALL activities (i.e. biking) in the total. NOT what I need! It also only exports as a TCX file. I looked around quickly, but didn’t find something that would summarize by activity type, so I rolled my own!
Wrote a quick Ruby script to pull out all activities from the exported TCX file (which is just XML) and then pulled that into Excel to create a pivot table using that data, summarizing by the ID column (since it gives me multiple laps per activity). Then I was able to manipulate to my heart’s content!
Turns out I’ve run 75 miles in these shoes. I’m hoping that I’ll end up with something more along the lines of these experiences in the longevity of my shoes. But then, I am a fat 275 lb bastard, so that will put a little extra wear and tear on the shoes… ;]