Donating fitness/pacemaker data to science?

[J. Nathan Matias]

Dear GoldenCheetah community,

Thank you so much for creating and maintaining tools that I have found profoundly helpful to my health and my fitness goals for about five years now. You've made tracking my training much more achievable- so thank you!

I'm writing on behalf of a friend who is an ultra endurance cyclist with a pacemaker who figures he's in a pretty rare situation and was wondering if there are any sports/heart scientists who would be interested to study his situation - and how to find them. He has extensive data from his pacemaker, and can link that with training data and his head unit going back quite a ways.

There aren't a lot of journal articles on the topic, and the main one is from 2004, which looked at ultra runners.

Knowing that GoldenCheetah has published data used by scientists who want to study athletes, I wonder if folks have thoughts on finding out whether any of this would be useful to science?

And PS: is there any reason the Open Science Framework repository is no longer receiving new updates?

--Nathan

[Mark Liversedge]

We switched off data collection as we were collecting way more than we expected. 

I think your friend should consider setting up his own OSF project and upload his data-- pacemaker + exercise data would be very interesting to a lot of researchers I suspect.

If you need any help let me know, the OSF team are incredibly helpful and likely will make it easy for your friend

Mark