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[[File:BadwaterBasis.jpg|none|thumb|800px| This is the data that the [[Basis Activity Tracker]] recorded during Badwater. The Basis web site only displays one days data at a time, so this is two days stitched together. The orange balls are the number of steps taken, the purple line is skin temperature, and the blue line is perspiration rate. The temperature scale for skin temperature is on the right side of the graph in Fahrenheit.]]
=Recovery=
My legs were a little sore the next day, but were soon fine for short runs and normal use. It took another week or two for the endurance to return, which may be due to [[Glycogen]] depletion. ==Sleep Monitoring with Basis==My biggest problem was insomnia that lasted for nearly a week. It was not until the Sunday following the race that I started to feel sleepy; up to that point I was exhausted, but without the desire to sleep, and I felt like I was not sleeping well. If you look at the sleep report from the [[Basis Activity Tracker| Basis]] you can see that I did not sleep much the night after the race, which is normal for me after an ultra. However, I did not sleep much the Wednesday or the Thursday and my sleep was distinctly interrupted. It was not until Friday that I start sleeping more and I didn't feel the benefit of the increased sleep until Sunday.
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|[[File:Badwater_Basis_Sun.jpg|none|thumb|x300px|Sunday. Things start to return to normal.]]
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==Heart Rate Variability==
I've been monitoring my [[Heart Rate Variability]] (HRV) for a while, so I was curious about how Badwater would impact it. HRV is generally believed to reflect training stress, and is a candidate for detecting the dreaded [[Overtraining Syndrome]].
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|[[File:BW HRV ithlete.PNG|none|thumb|x300px| This is the data from the [https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/ithlete/id331348945?mt=8 ithlete] app, with the daily mileage as the bars, and the rolling average as a blue line. As you can see the individual daily readings have too much noise to be of much use. There is a slight rise in the average after Badwater, suggesting that the recovery from the race went well.]]
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|[[File:BW HRV4Training.jpg|none|thumb|x300px|This data comes from the [https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/hrv4training/id686923970?mt=8 HRV4Training] app, which has been postprocessed using my sports tracks plug-in. The vertical bars are [[TRIMP]] (effort) and the line is the seven day rolling average of HRV/HR. This data suggests the race didn't produce a much protracted stress. (Other data (not shown) indicates that the variation in HRV is not significant.]]
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=Gallery=
