Extracting specific track segments from a track

I have an i-Blue 747A+ GPS logger which I use to track my runs (amongst other things). Afterwards I use BT747 to retrieve the data from the device and create a GPX file of the run, which I then upload to Endomondo which gives me nice graphs and statistics.

I need to modify the GPX file slightly before I can do so however: I use the button on the device to mark the beginning and end of the run, which appear as waypoints in the GPX file. BT747 creates separate track segments (within a single track) between each waypoint, but Endomondo ignores these. I therefore need to extract the single track segment covering the actual run and create a new GPX file with just that segment. I therefore wrote a script in Python, splittrack.py, to do this. It uses the gpxdata library to parse the input file, locates any track segment which match a set of time, distance, displacement and speed criteria¹, and outputs a new GPX file with just those.

% splittrack.py mgorven-20121015_0109.gpx > run-20121014.gpx
Reading mgorven-20121015_0109.gpx
<TrackSegment (23 points)> covers 21m over 0:00:22 at 1.0m/s average speed with 4m displacement
<TrackSegment (904 points)> covers 3018m over 0:15:03 at 3.3m/s average speed with 8m displacement
Adding <TrackSegment (904 points)>
<TrackSegment (4 points)> covers 3m over 0:00:03 at 1.3m/s average speed with 3m displacement

Integrating heart rate data

I then recently bought an Oregon Scientific WM100 heart rate logger. It listens to the broadcasts from a heart rate strap² and records the measurements every 2 seconds. I retrieve the data using the wm100 driver for Linux which writes a CSV file like this:

Name,2012-10-14T18:08:27
Description,
Date,10/14/2012
Time,18:08:27
SamplingRate,2
HeartRate
,80
,78
,76
,75

In order to get this data into Endomondo, I needed to combine the GPS trace with the HRM data into a single file format which Endomondo accepts. I initially started implementing a library for the TCX format³, but then discovered that there is a GPX extension for including heart rata data which Endomondo accepts. So I wrote a script in Python, wm100gpx.py, which reads the input GPX and CSV files, merges the heart rate measurements into the GPX records, and outputs a new GPX file.

% wm100gpx.py 2012-10-14T18:08:27.csv < mgorven-20121015_0109.gpx > run-20121014.gpx

The entries look like this:

<trkptlat="37.392051"lon="-122.090240"><ele>-44.400761</ele><time>2012-10-15T01:20:13Z</time><extensions><gpxtpx:TrackPointExtension><gpxtpx:hr>175</gpxtpx:hr></gpxtpx:TrackPointExtension></extensions></trkpt>