As might know, I recently completed the Couch-to-5K running plan and used a Garmin Forerunner 205 to track my progress. The Garmin Training Center software for the device isn’t too bad, but it would be nice to not have to rely on it.

Well as it turns out, Bob Rudis wrote a Python script to read the gtc database files:

If you’ve got python and it’s sqlite library installed, then this script will be a half-decent example of how to pull data from “.gtc” database for each entry in the stored history. If not, have no fear, I hope to release a small app to let you extract the data on your own and I’m still thinking about that widget.

The cool part is that, as Bob pointed out earlier, the Training Center database files are nothing more than SQLite files! How awesome is that?

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