Workouts, Training Software

Most training software treats a ride as one workout. Maybe this is OK if a long ride is your workout. But what if you are doing hill repeats as your workout? Can you tell from your training software if you are getting better at riding hills from one month to the next?

The PFS takes the approach that one often has workouts within a ride. The PFS defines a workout and records it in a database in such a way that it can be extracted and examined at a later time. Say one has been doing hill workouts for several months and one wanted to see if the time to the top was getting less. One could extract from the PFS database all the hill workouts over the several month's period and examine them to see how well one was doing.

The PFS also allows one to define a workout and let the PFS conduct it. Say one wants to do criterium intervals, three sets of six reps with 25 seconds efforts followed by 15 seconds of recovery. Try keeping that straight in your mind when you are making an effort. The PFS will conduct the criterium interval workout for you signaling when to start and stop efforts and recovery. It records the workout into its database so that criterium intervals over, say several months, can be compared.

This is a different way to look at one's training time. We believe it to be a useful conceptual apporach.