Entering Past Data Question

Would it make any difference on what my fitness graph looks like now if I entered estimated info on past activities? I had three aprox 100 mile backpacking trips that were 10(ish) hours a day and 12-18 miles a day at high elevation in the High Sierras as shown in the pic below. I dont take a HR monitor backpacking but I might next time. Would it lift everything to the right of it. I would have to just guess what the HR average at maybe 125+ based on a few of my sea level 20 mile hikes(?)

This is what one of the harder days might look like on a backpacking trip. This is HR data from a local all day “day hike” at Mount San Jacinto. This was a little harder than a typical day but only because I was not acclimated to the elevation. Did the same hike two weeks later and it was a bit easier.

This was at a max elevation of a little over 9,000 ft but backpacking it was 10,000 to 12,000 with one day being 13,000 ft elevation and the first week I was not adapted to that either.

Yes filling in training load for those hikes will change your fitness chart. Using similar hikes with HR data is probably a good way to guess the load. I wouldn’t want those dips in my chart either :slight_smile:

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Enter them as a Manual activity and use a estimated Load that you get from other similar hikes. An average of xxx load per hour will do fine. From your example 50-55 per hour should be pretty close. Enter the duration too. That will keep your stats for moving time more or less correct.
You don’t really need to guess the average HR, Load and duration is enough like this example

The loads from those will definitely raise your Fitness number!

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Thanks guys

I clicked the Add Calendar Entry button but nothing happens.

The dialog box shown in the Getting Started Guide does not appear.

It also took me a long time to find that button as there’s no text and the Guide does not show where it is

Just click on a day´s empty space, or even better the date itself in the calendar to enter any info for a specific day, then choose what kind of info you want to add.

In your case ‘Other Workout’ is easiest. Then select Manual Activity as category.

I’m trying but I cannot get this “Add Calendar Entry” window to come up. I click a date then click the calendar icon but no window pops up for me to select “Other Workout” or “Manual Activity”.
It’s driving me crazy that I cannot get to the screens that you did screen captures of

I’ve never used that from the Fitness page, didn’t even notice it was there, but just tried and it works for me.
I always use it from the Activities page, the calendar. But for me both do exactly the same…
This is what should happen when clicking on Sep 7 in this case

If you then click on Other workout, the correct date is already selected.

Are you on desktop or mobile?

Desktop - Firefox browser

It’s working using activities (calendar view)
I never noticed there was a calendar view on the activities page.

When I try this on the Fitness page it does not work, my date selected just jumps to today’s date and nothing else happens

I accidentally entered 6 hours but dont know how to change that to 5 (first day on trail). I can change the start time and the load but not the duration.
This is cool . . . I like it now that I’m using it.
One event took me from -8 form to -31. Now I just have to figure out if I used to much load or not. I was overweight to start and also had 28 pounds on my back and did 1600 ft of elevation gain at 9,000 ft and was totally spent by the end of the day.

You can delete the activity just like any other and create a new one with the correct time.
It will off course always be an estimate, but the result will surely be closer to the truth compared to leaving it empty…
Small errors are not hugely important because the impact is limited to ~the 6 following weeks. Fitness is a ‘weighted’ average of your efforts for the last 42 days.

I wish I could edit the moving time because on two of these days I put in minutes instead of hours giving me a speed of 90 mph. I have my start and end times in my log. I also know my elevation gains and losses. But I only write down if it was a hard day when it was a memorably hard day. Almost every day was physically " :frowning: " unless it was mostly down hill but two days I wrote down that it was a GRUELING day. The day I hiked over Forester Pass at 13,153 feet was probably the hardest hike I have ever done but it was my third time doing it and it was not that hard the other two because I was in better shape and elevation adapted.

After 3 days of it not working I can now get directly to the Add Calendar Entry from the Fitness Page. If someone did something . . . THANKS!