I also included a bonus of a few seconds of footage I shot of the 3D piece during a ride so you can see it all moving: At the same time, if you want to repeat a given section of the course repeatedly, you can simply select the section you want and then use the ‘Laps’ text box to tell it how many times to repeat.Īdditionally, you can combine that with the dropdown to ride that section of the course Forward, in Reverse, and by doing it as an Out and Back.īecause this section is pretty cool I had the RacerMate guys go ahead and show you a walk through of this on a quick video. This is useful for something like Ironman training where you may be riding different chunks of the course on different days. Then they’ve got the course selector piece which allows you to drag over the section of the course that you want to ride. Now however, each course shows details such as Laps, Miles and Elevation.
In the past choosing courses was basically sifting through a massive list of text file names. Thus why it’ll stick with you.īut perhaps some of the coolest changes are in the course selector screen. The goal of the Smart Pacer is to help you pace at a given wattage – not to drop you. Today however, the Smart Pacer recognizes a significant drop in power and will pull back to stay with you. Now historically, if you were doing some form of interval training with a pacer set at 200w (example), he would leave you in the dust during a rest interval (as you would drop in wattage and he would maintain).
Then we have a new rider type of “Smart Pacer” – which allows you to specify a computer generated rider that aims to be at a given wattage. This is great for places (like a coaching studio) that may have a number or riders ‘in the system’. First is that you can easily search rider names on the right hand side simply by typing them in. Next as you move through to select riders for a given course/ride you’ll see a few changes of note. In fact as I noted last year – you can even now choose a triathlon bike. The first thing you’ll notice is that the main menu has been changed up quite a bit to be fully consolidated and inclusive of the different modes that previously required different programs.Īs you go to setup your rider(s), you’ll notice a bunch of new customization options from calculating zones and heart rates to color customization of the rider itself. Let’s go ahead and walk through a few of them.
#Computrainer review 2011 software#
When you look at the software compared to a year ago you can see there’s clearly some significant improvement in the user interface (UI), as well as new features and functionality added. In the meantime, I asked them to go over a few areas that we didn’t get to see last year during Interbike, or that have changed since then. That said, they did seem optimistic that these would be resolved relatively soon and the software would end up in your (and my) hands. This is partially related to distribution. Since then it’s been a long road for the Seattle based company as they’ve sought to bring the software to reality, but I was happy to learn today that Racermate One is now complete from a software development standpoint.Īt this stage, the only item keeping you from having your hands on the software is “some contractual issues that are currently in negotiations” between 3rd party developers that assisted with the project. It was a year ago this week where we got one of the first public looks at the RacerMate One suite, during Interbike last year.
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