TrainingPeaks Introduces Data Editing To The Web
Monday, July 9, 2012 at 5:10PM On July 10 TrainingPeaks, the premier online training and nutrition software for endurance athletes and coaches, will introduce data editing capabilities to the web. This will make TrainingPeaks the first ever online tool where triathletes, cyclists, runners and others can edit raw data collected from any one of more than 90 different training devices, including power meters, heart rate monitors, and GPS watches.
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The new data editing capabilities will enable users to: 1) delete segments of data such as warm-ups or cool-downs and erroneously created segments, 2) edit specific points where data spikes have occurred, and 3) drop entire channels like heart rate, power, pace, temperature, and more. Workout totals, average and peak value calculations will adjust automatically after editing, and edited values will be reflected in TrainingPeaks charts, like the Peak Power and Peak Pace by Distance charts.
TrainingPeaks co-founder and CEO Gear Fisher says, “The ability to edit your raw device data on the Web is a big step forward for athletes using GPS, power or heart rate monitors. We’ve seen a huge increase in device uploads over the past few years, but the data wasn’t always perfect. We have the best analytics tools of any endurance sports training software, and this feature will help improve the accuracy of your data. This in turn improves your ability to analyze and plan future workouts effectively. It’s part of our core principles that TrainingPeaks is the resource for the most accurate reporting and preservation of your activity data.”
TrainingPeaks co-founder Dirk Friel adds, “From the coaching perspective, this is a huge gain as well. Coaches need accurate data to get the whole picture of an athlete’s fitness and to be able to prescribe the right type of training. Until devices are perfect and know how to do things like shut themselves off when you’re done with your ride, or not pick up random spikes in heart rate when you’re rolling downhill, there will be errors introduced in an athlete’s tracking process. However, data editing introduces the human element back into a technological process. It allows coaches to adjust out obvious errors and get the best representation of the activity that actually happened.”
Previously, the ability to delete segments, drop channels and edit data points has existed in desktop training software including TrainingPeaks WKO+; however the release of these capabilities makes it the first time a user can perform these functions on the web.
Data editing capabilities will be available to paid Premium TrainingPeaks Athlete Edition users and users of TrainingPeaks Coach Edition software. Users of TrainingPeaks’ free Basic Athlete Edition tool still have access to the platform’s workout graphs and select charts, and can upgrade at any time to the Premium service to utilize the new data editing benefits.
Learn more about the new TrainingPeaks data editing features and how to use them at support.trainingpeaks.com/personal-edition/detailed-view/data-editing.aspx, or view our new data editing demo video. For great examples of the type of data that could be edited from a device such as a power meter, see TrainingPeaks race data from the 2012 Tour de France at trainingpeaks.com/TDF.
Try Data Editing for a day! Until the end of July, you can upgrade to a free 24-hour trial of Premium with coupon code dataediting712.
Reader Comments (10)
This is great! However, what's the point of having paid for WKO+? This raw data editing was the only reason I still used it... Seems like a good time to sunset that product or at least announce it's obvious demise. Finally, when are the new (previously added) metrics going to be fully integrated into the product? I would gladly give up "features" to get the benefit of previous features that are fully implemented... Thanks!
Henry, WKO+ still has many great features not offered online. Particularly, the ability to use it offline. While we have been adding, and improving, many of WKO's features as we bring them to the web, it still has a very important role in the workflow of many coaches and athletes, so we continue to support it 100%.
Please continue to support WKO+. I like using both the web and desktop versions of your software for there own set of reasons.
I like to use both for coaching as WKO i can use the "FIND" for match and flare burns and climb comparisons using the multi file analysis. As far as i am aware both these tools can not be done on TP? If they can point me to how! Thanks, Jay UK
"While we have been adding, and improving, many of WKO's features as we bring them to the web, it still has a very important role in the workflow of many coaches and athletes, so we continue to support it 100%."
From the download page:
TrainingPeaks WKO+ v3.0 (Includes Device Agent v3.0 and WKO+v3.0) (Build 48) Dec 14, 2010
I do not think that word support means what you think it means :)
Jay - MF analysis is coming soon to TP.com - stay tuned! Mike and Aaron - development is very much under way on WKO+
I like this however it would be more precise to also be able to select rows of data to delete wouldn't it? If I want to trim off a few seconds, thats hard to select in the graph. Its a great start for those of us that dont have WKO though. Thanks
Robert, you can select rows of data individually and edit just change from Graph view to a new view called "data".
I can select several rows of data but can you not then make an avg across the board of the selected data rather than having to input individually? I say this because a clients HR went berserk for a period of time during a climb on the La Marmotte where we know he would have been avging 150bpm approx and 240w. I ended up just cutting out the section and interpolating?
@Robert and @Jay - those are good ideas, and I'll pass them on to our dev team. Thanks all for the feedback.