In the UK, both British Cycling and British Triathlon have 40% off Training peaks codes for members. Do other federation not offer this?
(It’s a generic code, So could DM me if interested 
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I have had Zwift free for the last 12 months however they have just started charging me again. At £179.99 a year I don’t see the value when I can get TrainingPeaks with Virtual/Indievelo for £96.92 (minus the discounts available) and have a much more powerful training analysis tool along with the virtual riding. Gonna give Virtual a go whilst it’s free and then make decision on what to do.
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This is where I am too.
I had a Garmin watch and a Garmin head unit, but have used indieVelo for nearly 2 years. As those sessions don’t get added to the training metrics, that functionality became redundant to me - so at the next opportunity I also moved away from my 840 to a Karoo.
This kind of approach doesn’t force me in to their ecosystem, it encourages me away from it.
This is why intervals.icu is growing so rapidly and so well reviewed. Completely open, will connect to anything that allows it, responds to the userbase. I created a Garmin IQ app that displays your intervals.icu data on your watch, so that is now what I use rather than the Garmin in-built metrics that don’t consider half of my activities.
(TPV also syncs with intervals.icu by the way)
I get the Garmin is a hardware manufacturer, and that they want to Connect App to be a selling feature for their hardware and to tie you into the eco system. But it’s a dangerous game to play
My use case is a bit odd to others, but I am Type 1 diabetic, I have the IQ dexcom for my 1040, and it works (as long as you have you phone with you and coverage) but there is no watch face feature for the Garmin watches (so I can see my dexcom when not training), so I have changed from Fenix to Apple Ultra (which has a direct link so no need to have a phone or signal for it to update) so straight away, by fitness tracking goes out the window with Garmin and I can’t (and don’t) use the connect app … which then means, why am I limiting myself to Garmin Edge cycle computers (the IQ app is great, but I can still look at my watch)
If you are going to tie people into your eco system, and you try to make it 100%, don’t be surprised when they leave for that one killer feature that they find elseware
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Going back to TPV, I’m impressed with how well it adapts to different hardware. I ran it on one of the cheapest Samsung tablets, and got good results by using less-demanding textures and shadows. I then ran it on a top-of-the-line Tab S9 Ultra, and got good results with the best quality textures.
Really nice app. My one real (but minor) gripe so far is that it rounds my workout targets to the nearest 5W just like Zwift does. And I’m OCD enough that, if my sweet-spot workout should be at 194W, I’d prefer to do it at at exact wattage and not be under or over my target by 1W or 2W. I understand it makes no real difference to training, but then why have the app do the extra work of rounding the target power I give it? Just give me what I asked for.
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I’m pretty sure that you can change it to not round to the nearest 5W.
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Yes there’s an option when you launch a workout to round the workout values or not. A few other settings there too.
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Zwift didn’t offer that option, and I must have missed that when going through TPV initially. Thank you!
There are a lot of settings and customization! I just started going through it all after the acquisition announcement.
DM’d you
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Wow that’s a great deal to have 40% off! Be thankful for that. Here in the US for USACycling members, its only 20%.
It’s Only 20% for ‘normal’ members, gold members get 40%
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Ehh … you’re doing intervals at 20watts ? (5 watts being 25% of 20)
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Just did my 1st structured workout: not ready for prime time. This was supposed to 6x1:30 anaerobic intervals in ERG mode, but TPV didn’t up the power at the start of each interval, so it dropped out of ERG mode.
I need to file a support issue on this, but not a good 1st workout
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Upgrade your OCD and you won’t be able to ride at 194w, you’ll want to ride at 190 or 195 
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Interesting. The two workouts I’ve done had rest intervals at 50% of FTP, with work intervals at 120%. Didn’t have a problem. Hope your experience gets solved quickly!
Ah ok, get it now, you mean total/max change of the workout … does strike me as a bit arbitrary (on Zwift’s side), I never do Z2 based from a workout, so it’s never struck me as a problem
I have had problems with it in the past too. My example is, you’re doing a workout and the interval ends, but you want to extend it, or add in another interval, and you can’t “up” the rest interval enough to match the % to extend the original interval. Example: I decide to do 4x3 minute VO2, and it ends with a 30 minute Z2 cooldown. At the end of the 4th interval, I want to extend it to a 4 minute interval, or I want to add a 5th interval. I can’t do this due to the 25% increase limitation.
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Thanks! We were talking about Zwift though. I still can’t get TPV to work
But that’s what I do in zwift as well (switch of erg and just ride, one click in the companion app)
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