Printing statistics to the terminal or plotting data extracted from FIT files is all well and good. One problem is that the feedback loops are long. Sometimes questions are better answered by playing with the data directly. Enter the Perl Data Language.| P.T.C.
FIT files record the activities of people using devices such as sports watches and bike head units. Platforms such as Strava and Zwift understand this now quasi-standard format. So does Perl! Here I discuss how to parse FIT files and calculate some basic statistics from the extracted data.| P.T.C.