The PC Coach Cycling Plan?

"K2" <[email hidden]> wrote in message
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Anyone here ever use this software? Any opinions from
those who have? regards, Karl

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I've used it, but didn't care much for it. It's OK (but,
just), as a "coach". You can create goals and then it plans
your training for them. But, the training plans are mostly
common sense - start off slow, increase mileage as time goes
on, mix in intensity with endurance and some specifics
(e.g., high cadence). Nothing you won't find in most decent
training books (Friel, Carmichael).

The main reasons I no longer use it are:

1) Terrible user interface It's poorly designed and hard to
use. As a ride log, it sucks. Analyzing your past
performance is difficult - even simple things like "how
many miles have I ridden this year" are difficult, if not
impossible, to find.

2) Expensive

3) Data locked into their proprietary format. There is no
way to export your data to some other format (e.g.,
Excel) for further analysis. It's locked into the PC
Coach database.

For more comments (mine and others), check here:
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GaryG said:

Or, for more usenet discussions, check here:http://groups.google.com/groups?sourceid=navclient&ie=UTF-
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Hey Gary, Yeah, I did try a google search first, but most of
the information was years old so I was hoping to get some
perspectives on more recent versions of the product.

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GaryG said:

Or, for more usenet discussions, check here:

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Hey Gary, Yeah, I did try a google search first, but most
of the information was years old so I was hoping to get
some perspectives on more recent versions of the product.

Well, I don't think they've updated much in the product in
the last few years. The link for bikeforums.net contained
some info from a guy who was using the latest version with a
Polar HRM, and he had quite a few specific comments about
what he liked and didn't like about the software.

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