Those are days where I rode but didn’t have a power meter on the bike. If I scroll down further you can see the individual weeks with the days of the week, each of those numbers is not the mileage or duration, but rather the stress (TSS) accrued. Of course, all of this is cycling-specific, so it doesn’t include running, swimming, or other stress inducing activities. Meanwhile, the training stress graph shows my overall load, as well as FTP changes marked with little dots. So, for example, city-riding on my commuter bike. You’ll note that below that it gives me a brief note that rides that don’t have a power meter don’t get TSS data automatically. As you can see, my latest ride from today was outdoors – not at all on TrainerRoad. It shows your latest ride, in this case today, as well as your training stress below it. In any event, files aside, let’s talk about what you see once you’re back to the dashboard, which is this:
#TRAINERROAD POLARIZED TRAINING ZIP FILE#
The Zip file is notable, as is PWX, because that allows you to easily export out from TrainingPeaks, and import into TrainerRoad in one fell swoop.
#TRAINERROAD POLARIZED TRAINING BLUETOOTH#
This would be in the days before Bluetooth Smart uploads via your smartphone app or WiFi (Garmin didn’t add Bluetooth to Edge units until 2013).Īnd in the event you had files elsewhere, you can simply drag them in bulk via the ‘Import ride’ option. So I didn’t really start using Strava that heavily in that timeframe, thus those files were dependent on me uploading to Garmin Connect, which in turn was dependent on me actually using Garmin Connect. For example, while I have rides from 2010 in there, that’s only rides that I’ve uploaded to one of those supported platforms, and it doesn’t appear to be importing from TrainingPeaks (because they block that API access). Now like most of you, you might not have all of your rides back that far. I’ve got 1007 rides imported into the platform now, dating back to 2010. Which gets to the next point: They are pulling in *all* of your history. While I didn’t go back and look at a decade’s worth of history, I did browse through this year’s data and haven’t seen any duplicates. And impressively, they seem to have done that very well. So it has to decide which activity to use (and to not use both). See, TrainerRoad also has to deconflict between Strava and Garmin Connect in my case. For example, this ride a few weeks back on Garmin Connect:īut it’s actually more complex that than. In fact, turns out my specific account was used as a bit of a test case of a worst possible scenario, because not only do I have all my networks connected, but a service like Garmin Connect can often get 3-5 copies of a given ride (since I ride with multiple head units for testing). These connected platforms are defined within your settings under ‘Ride Sync’ (Note: this is all the same as before, but it doesn’t import from TrainingPeaks, it only exports to it):īut that begs the question – what happens if you do as I’ve done and upload everything to everywhere? Won’t you get duplicates? Nope, apparently not (well, not just apparently, definitely not).
So each time you complete a ride on your ‘connected’ platforms, it’ll show up within TrainerRoad. Now, instead of just ‘pushing’ data to those platforms, it’s also pulling data (or receiving, depending on how you want to define it). See, TrainerRoad already integrates with Strava, Garmin Connect, and others. The first piece to this puzzle is to understand how exactly TrainerRoad gets your outside data, and the answer is surprisingly simple: It uses the same connections that you’ve had to upload indoor data. Come to think of it, we probably shouldn’t tell The Girl exactly how many training log and app platforms I pay for. Note that I do indeed pay for my own TrainerRoad subscription, along with a disturbing number of other platforms too. I’ve been playing with the features for the past week or so, and figured I’d give you a quick loop around the block. Not only that, but you can start doing some training load analysis from within their platform as well, including some season comparisons and PR tracking. As one of the original pioneers of device-agnostic indoor training apps, they now allow you to account for your outdoor training within their platform. In the growing battle of not just trainer platforms, but training log platforms, TrainerRoad just took a big step forward.
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