JOIN cycling app

Or that you’ll ever hear from them at all.

Support questions are always answered within a few hours on business days during business hours (Monday to Friday 9-17 cet) in my experience

I was referring specifically to requesting access to the beta. I applied and heard nothing until months later I was invited.

Unless the app updates today, it seems like they’ll miss the “before the end of 2024” for running.

I signed up for running when it was announced, and just got an email today telling me I was on the mailing list. Slowwww.

Still no running but price increase for new subscribers. (12,99€ and 119,99€) Just got a mail that my current price stays locked as I m an active member. Thats nice :slight_smile:
But my renewal will depend on how running will be included. Otherwise I might switch to TR again.

To be honest, I’m surprised they didn’t raise prices sooner - and locking it in for active members is very very customer focused.

I m just not sure the value is enough, I mean they are just a couple of euros away from xert and now “only” about 8 from TR. The other 2 have great analytics etc which I am really missing with join. Its more a day by day what the other 2 offer on the side as well. But thats just my take :slight_smile:

TR is $209 USD per year. Join is $110, and at least annually they do a huge discount off that (mine currently says I can renew for $78). I know there are lots of other factors that lead to someone choosing one app or another, but cost wise, I don’t see how you can say they’re close.

My app updated this morning and running is now public and released it seems. From my playing around it seems to be what I was wanting, but lacks a direct export to Zwift. I’d also like direct COROS integration, but c’est la vie. Via TrainingPeaks will do!

Thanks for the heads up. I had to go into the AppStore and update manually, and then dig through the app for far too long, but I now see that there are indeed running workouts listed. Are there “running plans” somewhere? What about “running and cycling integrated plans”? Or do you just need to manually swap the planned ride for a run?

An email came in too: JOIN Running is Out

There aren’t running plans, or really running/cycling plans. You specify how many runs per week you want to do (up to 3) and JOIN does its thing with the existing plans it seems. You can change a planned ride to a run by tapping it and choosing Running workout.

Awesome. Thanks for the link!

Edit: they just posted an article in the app too

I have, for the time being, given up on Join and come back to TR. My reasons are all explained on reddit: Reddit - Dive into anything

Tl;dr:
It’s way too conservative, and then inflexible once it starts forcing rest days.

Did my first Join running workout today sort of… (It’s far too icy around here to ride bikes.) I had running set to “beginner”, but, that starts you like a total beginner of a couch-to-5k, with 4x 2min run, 2 min walk. I do run about once a week maybe for half an hour, so that was too easy for me and I’ve now set it to “advanced”. That seems a bit more like what I usually do at least in the first week.

Interesting. I set mine to Beginner too, but it knows I’ve been doing a weekly 5k, and it gave me this for my first running workout

Oh, interesting. Maybe it has to do with overall fitness? Mine is super low right now, due to a mix of bad weather, Christmas, and racing.

@splash Same (though for different reasons). I kept it at beginner, I’ll get into the groove of it over time.

How do you do run intervals? I miss my headunit

A watch? :smiley: