What's new for April -no foolin!

It has been just about 1-1/2 months since we shut down the "classic" mode of TrainingPeaks.com, and we've just made it through our first development cycle without the burden of the legacy system. What does that mean? Well, we've gutted a lot of code under the covers, cleaned house and have really been taking direct action on new features and improving existing ones based on your feedback.

For example, you said that you had to go too many places to edit workout data (hr zones, cp values) so we brought all that information to the QuickView with new tabs where you can directly edit all values. Customizable of course, so if you don't own a heart rate monitor or power meter, you don't have to deal with information that isn't relevant. You also said the left-side library "data grids" were difficult to see and hard to deal with.  So, we got rid of them entirely and now show information "stacked" in a "more details" and "fewer details" layout, greatly minimizing any need to ever scroll horizontally.  You also asked for more speed.  We dug in and we've made the initial load time about 25% faster. After you load the application once and your web browser caches the site, subsequent load times are under 10 seconds, often 5-7s in our testing. We also improved speed for copy/paste operations and fixed several bugs throughout the app. Many of the updates are refinements as opposed to completely new features, but we think you'll appreciate them.

Here's a  summary of what's new:

QuickView

• Updated QuickView to allow editing of more data without having to go to the Detailed view.


• New tabs for the QV: HR & Power Zones, Critical Power, Stats. You can now choose which tabs you see and the order that they appear.


• Customize the tabs on your QuickView (click Options, configure this view while on QV)


• Improved the layout so you can see the title, type, date of the workout you are editing from any tab


• Now allows changing of workout type


• Uploaded files are now clickable and provides options for going directly to the graph view, recalculating workout metrics, deleting the file or downloading the file


• Attach documents on the QV by clicking the paper-clip


• Share workouts by email, Facebook or Twitter directly from the QV


• Changed wording of "view all details" button to "Reports, Maps & Graphs"

Dashboard:

• Pre-set date range picker for reports allows for fast viewing of charts and graphs. For example "last 28 days", "this month", "last month", "this year" etc.

Workout Details View:

• Added workout type/date to Workout Details label so you can see the workout in view on all tabs


• Removed need for editing time in HR zones/power zones by allowing edit directly in QV

Calendar:

• One-step workout adding. Drag a workout or add it manually and go directly to the QuickView


• Fixed bug that prevented the pop-up for copy/paste from appearing or from appearing slowly.


• Significantly improved copy/paste speed

Left-side library:

• The classic workout library - Workouts (Classic), are now found under "Workout, Options button".


• Completely revised the look of the left-hand libraries to show more information without having to horizontal scroll. Also using a "more details-fewer details" scheme for all libraries.


• Added distinct sorting options for the libraries


• People library - Now see "last planned workout" automatically updated and viewable directly without having to go to another screen

General improvements:

• Power zones are now stored per workout for improved historical accuracy and greater flexibility. This means all your historical zone labels, time in zone and zone range are stored permanently for every workout.


• Added a visual confirmation of the logged in user


• Added separate sections for Meals, Foods, VirtualCoach and ATP (Annual Training Plan)

Please let us know what you think by contacting us on our support site.  We are excited for the coming months and we can't wait to show you what we've been working on behind the  scenes. Stay tuned, as always, for more to come.

Thanks for your loyal support!

-The TrainingPeaks Team

Comments

[Jason Bezon]

Great improvements. Love the easy access on the left hand side. Looking forward to TSS and IF! Keep up the good work!

[cathy]

I agree. Good improvements. Any chance of adding "Current ATP" and "Previous ATP" to the date range picker on the Dashboard? Still waiting for a report similar to the old summary report with distance and time for all sports for current week, month, year and ATP all in one tabular view.