TrainingPeaks tool Review
Review of my initial trial of Training Peaks web based tool for capturing my running stats.
Athlete Profile
Primary Sport: running
Supplemental Sports: Yoga, cycling
Current tool: SportTracks
Watch: Garmin 405 with HRM
Costs: not free, too upload my content from the Garmin watch I need the paid version
Not Reviewed: Nutrition components
Why did I review this:
- Read that Simon Whitefield uses this tool.
- Sportracks is not perfect either.
General Pluses:
- Able to easily enter future workouts
General Negatives
- Reporting is poor. For example,
○ difficult to generate custom reports or
○ Can't view the year at glance sorted by weeks.
○ Can't look at year to date numbers
- Can't add other sports or activities such as Yoga or Strength and Conditioning workout.
GUI -- General
- Took some time to get used to the interface. Not everything was intuitive.
- GUI doesn't respond to page down inputs. In the Dashboard and Journal this is a pain especially for someone who prefers to use the keyboard.
GUI -- Calendar view
- Should open to view at least one previous weeks data. Force to scroll back to view last weeks data.
- Weekly summary column useful.
- It would be nice to have the week number for the calendar year.
GUI -- Spreadsheet view
- Not clear to me what I would use this for. No summary data hence would it not just be easier to read of the calendar view data. Lacks organization at the row level (i.e. Totals).
GUI -- Dashboard view
- Fitness summary not that relevant for single sport athletes.
GUI -- Journal view
- Hard to navigate up and down without using a mouse. This tends to slow me down.
- Would prefer to have all of these windows in a single tabbed view.
- Graph Pod useful to see most of the primary data at a glance.
- Map pod okay but would prefer Google Earth map. That's just a personal preference.
- Free form aspect of the comments and notes seams useful.
- It would be nice to be able to edit the distance on laps. In the winter we run indoors and hence don't have the distance recorded. Also there are times when you don't wear the watch. The overall distance can be edited but not the individual laps.
- Equipment needs to have categories for shoes. For example, daily, race shoes, retired shoes, etc.
More to follow as time permits
--brian
Athlete Profile
Primary Sport: running
Supplemental Sports: Yoga, cycling
Current tool: SportTracks
Watch: Garmin 405 with HRM
Costs: not free, too upload my content from the Garmin watch I need the paid version
Not Reviewed: Nutrition components
Why did I review this:
- Read that Simon Whitefield uses this tool.
- Sportracks is not perfect either.
General Pluses:
- Able to easily enter future workouts
General Negatives
- Reporting is poor. For example,
○ difficult to generate custom reports or
○ Can't view the year at glance sorted by weeks.
○ Can't look at year to date numbers
- Can't add other sports or activities such as Yoga or Strength and Conditioning workout.
GUI -- General
- Took some time to get used to the interface. Not everything was intuitive.
- GUI doesn't respond to page down inputs. In the Dashboard and Journal this is a pain especially for someone who prefers to use the keyboard.
GUI -- Calendar view
- Should open to view at least one previous weeks data. Force to scroll back to view last weeks data.
- Weekly summary column useful.
- It would be nice to have the week number for the calendar year.
GUI -- Spreadsheet view
- Not clear to me what I would use this for. No summary data hence would it not just be easier to read of the calendar view data. Lacks organization at the row level (i.e. Totals).
GUI -- Dashboard view
- Fitness summary not that relevant for single sport athletes.
GUI -- Journal view
- Hard to navigate up and down without using a mouse. This tends to slow me down.
- Would prefer to have all of these windows in a single tabbed view.
- Graph Pod useful to see most of the primary data at a glance.
- Map pod okay but would prefer Google Earth map. That's just a personal preference.
- Free form aspect of the comments and notes seams useful.
- It would be nice to be able to edit the distance on laps. In the winter we run indoors and hence don't have the distance recorded. Also there are times when you don't wear the watch. The overall distance can be edited but not the individual laps.
- Equipment needs to have categories for shoes. For example, daily, race shoes, retired shoes, etc.
More to follow as time permits
--brian
posted by --brian @ 5:24 PM
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