Personal Training Software - Triathlon Week

10-11-2004, 05:43 AM

I was wondering if anyone has any experience/knowlege of other
training software that is compatible w/ Polar HRMs (SonicLink)? I've
seen some stuff about NetAthlon and UltraCoach. Has anyone run across
any others? Anyone have any experience w/ the others, if any? It
just seems that the copy of PC Coach Light that came w/ my HRM is VERY
lacking in thorougness. What I'd really like is the ability to get at
the raw data of my HRM so that I can graph and analyze in Excel. Any
thoughts on how to do that?

Thanks in Advance!

10-11-2004, 05:13 PM

[Only registered and activated users can see links. ] (Drew) wrote in message news:<f48927ae.0410110443.3aff8105@posting.google. com>...
> I was wondering if anyone has any experience/knowlege of other
> training software that is compatible w/ Polar HRMs (SonicLink)? I've
> seen some stuff about NetAthlon and UltraCoach. Has anyone run across
> any others? Anyone have any experience w/ the others, if any? It
> just seems that the copy of PC Coach Light that came w/ my HRM is VERY
> lacking in thorougness. What I'd really like is the ability to get at
> the raw data of my HRM so that I can graph and analyze in Excel. Any
> thoughts on how to do that?
>
> Thanks in Advance!

Try Crosstrak.com

Stand alone software... allows for web uploading of log information.
Pretty much allows for most HRM downloading and converts many
proprietary files (such as Polar) to generic file formats. Therefore,
allows for cross compatibility with other software (including Excel).
Search capabilities, multiple athletes, charts, graphs (graphs and
charts are exportable - but this is a weak exportable option for
graphs).

Best of all, crosstrak is a one time cost... unlike some online log
services that are subscription (such as TrainingPeak - subscription
version - not the free version...) TrainingPeak's subcription version
is simular to crosstrak but without ongoing subscription costs.

As for PC Coach Light... my experience has been that it is pretty much
worthless and restrictive with a proprietary file format.

For conversion and multi file format ability for downloading data...
as best I can tell, crosstrak software provides the widest application
capability between various devices and software. I've used it for
about 4-5 yrs. and have found it a very stable and useful logging
software (specially when you look at what it provides for the cost).

FWIW Joe Moya

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