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About Us
CyclingPeaks Software™ was developed by the leading experts in power
training.
The creators CyclingPeaks Software are Hunter
Allen, one of the top cycling
coaches in the world training with Power meters and Kevin Williams a top computer programmer.
Numerous
contributions were made by Andy Coggan, Ph.D.,
widely recognized as the top
cycling exercise physiologist developing power and training programs with
power
meters.
CyclingPeaks Software was born from the desire of a Cycling Coach and one
of
his Athletes trying desperately to use the power meter more effectively. The
"Athlete" was an "early adopter" of the power meter and
also
had a cycling coach, but knew that there was more to be learned from the power
meter
than just average watts. The "Coach" on the same hand, knew that the
power meter
truly represented a "quantum leap" in endurance cycling training,
but
was frustrated and unsure of how to best use the power meter as a
performance-enhancing tool for his athletes.
Both the Coach and the Athlete decided that they needed to know more about
training with power meters and that they should attend the first seminar of
it's
kind in the U.S., The Training with Power Seminar promoted by USA Cycling in
June of 2002. From listening to the seminar presenters, it became very clear
that the software to analyze power files was incredibly lacking in both
sophistication and ease of use. Too many Excel™ macros, spreadsheets, hacked
together graphs and "wish" lists for software were in the seminar.
Each presenter at the Seminar had basically a wish list of what they wanted
from
a power meter software program and there was nothing out there that came even
close. From this experience, the athlete, which just happened to be one of the
top software programmers in the country, and the coach decided they would
develop, design, and make the software for all to use. Their vision was to
create a piece of software that would change how athletes and coaches were
able
to view the data, track changes in fitness, highlight weaknesses, and give
focus
to an athletes training. This was all to be done so that anyone could use the
software and not have to have a PhD in computer programming or exercise
physiology in order to use it!
From these basic tenants, CyclingPeaks Software began to take shape! Along
the way, the Coach and the Athlete both found many insights into their own
training, the way that they approached training with a power meter, and the
many
factors that were involved in training with a power meter. As a consequence of
these software developments, the Coach and the Athlete began to discover
things
that no one else had been talking about within the cycling community and also
no
one had even looked at since up to that point, no one had access to the
graphs,
charts and presentation of data that they had. One of the great resources that
the Coach and Athlete discovered was the 'infamous' wattage list on
Topica.com.
They read, lurked, posted and listened to what the participants of this forum
suggested and begin to implement many of the suggestions put out on the
'list'.
Finally, the Coach and Athlete decided they needed some more advice,
consultations, and help from one of the power specialist. So they called the
"Scientist". Of course, the Scientist was excited to be approached and was
very
enthusiastic and helpful to the cause as now the Scientist was able to start to
look
at the training with a power meter in the way that he wanted it to be done.
The
Scientist was able to implement his ideas, thoughts and at the same time provide
"defense" for the different aspects, and functions, charts and
graphs
that CyclingPeaks Software created.
Some of the exciting collaborations of the Coach, Athlete and Scientist, have
been
the development of: "Peaks", Training Stress Score (TSS), Intensity
Factor (IF), Normalized Power (NP), Power Profiling, a mean maximal power
graph
viewed algorithmically, an integrated diary and analysis program for power
files, "Instant Insight" as the Athlete home page, the .wko or
workout
file, ability to read any brand of power meter file, and also "Bulk
Importing" of past files.
CyclingPeaks Software was developed with many, many hours of hard work,
dedication, sacrifices, excited discussions and brainstorming sessions and
plenty of cups of coffee! We hope you enjoy it as much as we have enjoyed
creating it and we know that CyclingPeaks Software will really make a
difference
in how you view your power meter data.
The power is in your hands now!
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