Training Plan...

[madisongrrl]

I won't mention coaching because in doing so once, the words name-dropping and useless were said....

I don't understand? Are you saying that someone made some negative comments about you talking about your coach? If so, I think that is b.s. I started this thread to talk about training, coaching systems etc. Please feel free to do so.

[Cassandra_Cain]

I don't understand? Are you saying that someone made some negative comments about you talking about your coach? If so, I think that is b.s. I started this thread to talk about training, coaching systems etc. Please feel free to do so.

No worries - I'm not getting into that coaching question again.

What I am open to talking about is the powertap, which I have, along with one of the cyclingpeaks training plans. The latter is road-based for threshold power (sustainable power) improvement, so it may or may not be useful to someone with a MTN-bking focus. Finally, I've been using cyclingpeaks WKO software and am very positive about that.

[velogirl]

I don't understand? Are you saying that someone made some negative comments about you talking about your coach? If so, I think that is b.s. I started this thread to talk about training, coaching systems etc. Please feel free to do so.

No, it's in response to this comment I made in the piece I wrote about finding a coach --

http://forums.teamestrogen.com/showt...878#post131878

Don't necessarily listen to the recommendations you receive on a public forum, bulletin board, or email group. People are name-droppers. Half the time someone makes a recommendation, they haven't even met the person they're recommending. They just want to contribute to the conversation and probably think they'll sound cool for dropping the name they just dropped. 2nd or 3rd hand recommendations (what I call the "friend of a friend" are basically useless).

In reality, that comment had nothing to do with Cassandra or her comments earlier in the thread, but I guess she interpreted it that way. Sorry about that, Cassandra.

[Cassandra_Cain]

No, it's in response to this comment I made in the piece I wrote about finding a coach --

http://forums.teamestrogen.com/showt...878#post131878

Don't necessarily listen to the recommendations you receive on a public forum, bulletin board, or email group. People are name-droppers. Half the time someone makes a recommendation, they haven't even met the person they're recommending. They just want to contribute to the conversation and probably think they'll sound cool for dropping the name they just dropped. 2nd or 3rd hand recommendations (what I call the "friend of a friend" are basically useless).

In reality, that comment had nothing to do with Cassandra or her comments earlier in the thread, but I guess she interpreted it that way. Sorry about that, Cassandra.

Yeap, that's the comment.

[Cassandra_Cain]

Velogirl - ok thank you. I have no hard feelings or grudges about it.

[Cassandra_Cain]

Here's a PM option I've recently become aware of:

http://www.microsporttech.com/product.php

It is set to come out next year I believe and orders are being taken in advance. Please note I have not seen any data or studies on it, but just figured I'd put it out here as an alternative to consider.

If, and it is obviously a big if, it does what it says, then it would be extremely portable, light, and useful.