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devan1044I do a decent amount of GPS work for school (with the cheap GPS receivers that are found in phones), and they are very accurate in determining velocity when height is unchanging. This is because they compute speed based the rate of lat, lon, alt change. GPS works by having multiple satellites (minimum of 3, optimum of 4 satellites) broadcast at the time over and over again. Since the satellites are at different distances away and the signal takes a constant time to travel, your reciever can triangulate your location based on small time differences between each signal. With a 3 satellite gps triangulation, lat and lon are very accurate but altitude can have large uncertainty. I would guess that the mtns blocked some signal and only gave your receiver 3 signals to work with. With 3 signals, there could be a big swing in the Z location and your total distance traveled could be huge error in altitude. Looking at the graph, your most rapid descent was 900ft(.17mi) in about .1 miles. This would compute to a slope of about 60 degrees ( tan-1(.17/.1). I don't know of any in bounds 60deg slopes or any 60deg slope I wouldn't shit myself skiing let alone straight lining, so I think your gps altitude is off and that error is propagating to an insanely high speed.
I'm not saying you weren't sending it, but 90+ seems excessively high. Just my theory though.
dickhead.why is your battery level so high after having your phone in your pocket all day? you must have charged it on the way home or when you got home, and the 96 mph was in your car on the way home
AUSTINBIKESKIdefinitely legit answer.
as well, you probably had park clothing (not skintight) and park skis on.
tons of air resistance and probably pretty high coefficient of kinetic friction compared to race skis
AHussYou didnt even hit relatively close to 96.6. You literally wouldnt be able to control a pair of skis under 210 if you were going that fast.
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Peter.were you on GS skis or something? i think my park skis would have blown up about 30MPH ago
auskiI'd say it's wrong and you could have been doing 70mph. The obvious solution is to test it again, and get your buddy to download the app and do it at the same time too
COskier. I'm not sure you can even go faster than like 60-65 with normal clothing.
grifrowlWere you in a tuck? If you were on the run I'm thinking of at Pebble it's totally possible to hit terminal velocity before the runout, so quite possibly high 60s to low 70s in a good tuck with baggy outerwear. With a bit of a tailwind you might be able to hit 90. I think a lot of the haters don't understand how steep Pebble actually is/how a ski that isn't an under-damped noodle performs.
