This first being the default listing with the app:Īnd then there is the website with more. Each chart though can be saved and shared with others, as well as downloaded from a central repository. Charts might be a somewhat simplistic term though, as ‘pages’ is probably more accurate. When the single athlete is highlighted, you’ll have noticed different tabs along the top. It’s fun looking back historically to different years where my training volume was focused at specific events – such as an Ironman (where obviously training durations are longer). These are what controls the middle chunk. Meanwhile, along the right side you’ve got the slices of time – such as this week, last week, this year, and so on. It’s not as if they aren’t present, it’s just…well…less detailed than cycling. Of course, these generally tend to take a backseat within the app. This shows your current training levels and FTP, as well as run and swim focused metrics at the bottom. Once that’s done you’ll be at the point of seeing your athlete details pane. That took a while, so I’d recommend planning dinner for that synchronization if you’ve been using TrainingPeaks for years. In my case, I added my existing TrainingPeaks account, which then synchronized my entire inventory of data into the app.
Because WKO4 is designed to support multiple athletes (such as a coach would have), it allows you to manage those individually via the left dashboard. Once you get it installed you’ll create your athlete profile. Of which, the installation (and eventual payment) was quick and simple.
In the meantime, a free 14-day trial version is available, which is what I’ve been using (well, at least until tonight when my trial ran out and I had to buy it to continue writing this post). But they say things are coming to Windows no later than the end of this calendar year, so no more than 4 months away.
A Brief Look at the App:Īt present, the app is only available on Mac, so if you’ve got Windows – you’re sorta out of luck (unless you want to use a hosted Mac cloud service). Here’s my take on using it the past little while. However roughly three weeks ago the bun finally popped out of the oven. Which means that it had its highs and lows (read: delays).
That piece is heavily reliant on the rest of the TrainingPeaks software development team, but is essentially no different than other software development effort. The second piece is the development of the actual software app itself. Though that’s really only one of numerous new metrics or ways to surface up information. This includes new ways to identify one’s FTP (Functional Threshold Power) without having to do FTP tests (called mFTP for modeled FTP). That development was primarily led by Dr. These new metrics ultimately would enable either better training or racing strategies, or perhaps just more efficient ways to identify existing metrics. The development though essentially had two different pieces to it.įirst was the more complex piece of coming up with new algorithms and new metrics.
The once flagship desktop app had seen quiet times over the last roughly half a decade, but development was restarted a few years ago back in the summer of 2012. After a number of years (and delays) in development, WKO4 has finally hit a desktop near you.