Training Manager = TSTWKT = Performance Manager
The secret is out. The chart you're looking at is the WKO+ version of what we've all been calling Training Manager, which has also been known as TSTWKT (the shit that will kill them). This chart capability will be coming out in WKO+ in an upcoming release. It will be known as Performance Manager.
Guys, it rocks.
If you have a bicycle powermeter and you care about managing your performance and staying competitive then you need WKO+. Why? Well as you know, a bunch of us have been doing the TSTWKT - Training Manager - Performance Manager thing manually for a while now using spreadsheets. It's that cabability that's been baked into this new release of WKO+ that's about to ship. I've been fortunate enough to be part of the test group, running the spreadsheet and WKO+ side-by-side. Since starting to test out the new release of WKO+ I can tell you, Performance Manager in WKO+ is tstwkt. Training Peaks has just raised the stakes among competitive cyclists everywhere.
Cyclists everywhere will be training with Performance Manager. Coaches will be using it to dial in their athletes' performance right down to the day of the event.
This it it guys, the one we've all been waiting for. Performance Manager is about to change how you train with a bicycle powermeter.
Here's a link to WKO+ developer JeffH's blog you'll want to check out.
Can't Wait!
And when will that version of WKO+ be out? Frankly, I'm not that interested in upgrading until TSTWKT is in it. But here's another question: I am working on some command line tools for training with power. They are written in the perl language and will therefore work on all popular plateforms (Linux, Windoze, and Mac). When I distribute them openly, they will be licensed under the GPL license which is the most common open source license. So what I am wondering is if the TSTWKT algorythm can be included?
TrainingPeaks LLC owns the
TrainingPeaks LLC owns the copyright to the Performance Manager (as well as to Normalized Power, Intensity Factor, Training Stress Score, Power Profiling, and Quadrant Analysis). You might wish to run your plans past them before you find yourself embroiled in a legal battle over intellectual property rights.
Thanks
Andy,
Thanks, not wishing to get into any legal troubles here at all. If it's a problem then I will not do anything of the sort. Are you a repesentative of TrainingPeaks LLC? In looking over some of the topica posts, it seems that you encouraged people to work with the algorithms for NP, IF, and TSS. I know you are not handling TSTWKT in the same way so that's why I was asking about it specifically. But it appears that the others are covered as well. I guess I will have to inquire before I share these tools with anyone else.
here's the skinny
My only formal association with TrainingPeaks LLC is that I have licensed my ideas to them for use in programs such as WKO+, and hence they are the ones who own the trademarks (not copyrights, as I mistyped previously) to the various terms, e.g., Performance Manager. (The algorithms themselves, OTOH, are all in the public domain, or at least soon will be.) To be honest, I really have no idea how they might feel about shareware that uses either the algorithms or the trademarked terms - my only goal here is to make you aware of such considerations, and thus potentially save you some hassles. From my point of view, it doesn't really matter...in fact, the primary reason that I licensed my ideas to them in the first place is so I don't have to worry about such things.
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