JOIN cycling app

Training
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Here’s my final thoughts on enduco vs JOIN (and note that these are my experience/my opinion):

  1. It doesn’t adapt your week instantly based on feedback/extra rides from what I can tell, you have to go “Edit” and have it replan.
  2. The generated workouts don’t have anywhere near the variety that JOIN does (which is amusing since JOIN workouts are from a pre-existing database while enduco is personalized).
  3. Notifications don’t work.
  4. I do like the home screen and the calendar view over what JOIN does.
  5. Despite having more data it’s not overwhelming.
  6. It has no “Why this workout?” which I like on JOIN’s side since you can understand a bit more about why it has chosen a workout.
  7. I trust the more explicit Goals functionality of JOIN more.
  8. I trust the over all training plans of JOIN more.
  9. I found myself having to manage my calendar more myself, even having it replan resulted in missing workouts which would then reappear if I replanned. JOIN “just works” in comparison.
  10. The extra money for enduco (it’s an extra $61/year for me) isn’t worth it, despite it giving running and some athletic training.

Unsurprisingly I won’t be continuing with it, but will still keep tabs on how it evolves. I also hope (and know) that some things will be incorporated into JOIN. The new feature request site has already made it evident that the ones I personally care about are in progress or planned: workout history, running, and readiness.

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