Training Peaks vs Intervals.icu for tracking training

Intervals icu. It's way better. Have spoken about it deep somewhere in the Norwegian singles thread. Golden cheetah is awesome as well. Both are better than paying for training peaks.

Possibly a stupid question but is there an idiots guide to intervals.icu anywhere?

I have an account but most of the interfaces and data just go way over my head. In fact, the only thing it looks like it can't do very well, is detect actual intervals from workouts compared to steady state runs ...

Runalyze is free and has way more than I need. It's a bit clunky but I like the depth it goes into

If there is a guide I haven’t found it. It is a little overwhelming looking at first, but you figure it out as you go. It’s super customizable as far as how much or how little data you want displayed. And the workout builder is really nice. You can build everything as a % of threshold pace, then as you get faster you update your threshold pace and it auto updates the paces in your pre-made workouts

I pay for runalyze. Reasonably priced and geeky. Learning curve, for sure, but great tools.

Hi,

I am using intervals.icu. The basic functions are important to me because I am training always alone since more of a decade (nevertheless, I was a club runner for more than 25 years). It helps me to track my acute training load and keep it in balance with my chronic training load. And it is fun to play around, follow specific figures, create graphs, calculate something, compare, etc. I do not use the workout editor but it seems well thought out. I would try it if I would coach a bunch of road runners. The developers are focusing on cycling and thus are focusing on power as KPI. However, I do not use the power figures for running. Going by pace for time in zones and using the HR for load calculation seems for me the best possible option for a simple running watch and a chest strep. Sure, I could spend many $$$ for gadgets but this is not for me. I like it simple. You can test the tool extensively and without reduced functions for free as long as you want. There seems a lot of work from many people in this tool. Thus, I am paying the moderate fee.

Wishing all the best to the developers and some $

Based on the recommendations here, I made a Runalyze account, but I haven't had any luck getting syncing to work with Strava to get my workouts uploaded. The anticipation is killing me. ha ha

but thanks everyone for the comments. I did get Intervals.icu up and running, and quite impressed with the analytics; I'm a numbers geek and even for me it's a bit overwhelming. I just need to zero in on the ones I care most about, and go from there.

Oh, and sorry, one question: if any of you use hrv4training, have you had luck getting your data into Intervals.icu and, if so, how? I'd love to get the HRV data into the same software as my training data, but haven't figured that out yet.

I used to use Runalyze but switched the intervals.icu

Runalyze is good, I dont think there was anything grotesquely wrong with it, but... I hated that it gave every run an effective VO2max (score) for every run, it turned into something I based the value of a run on and as I had multiple setbacks last year I would get disheartened seeing it drop off or not rebound quickly.

With intervals.icu I love seeing the time in each HR zone over the week, and the fitness/fatigue tracks really well for me. Those are the metrics I need to see with my training, rather than a green or red arrow dictating how good a run was.

intervals.icu is incredible. David has done an incredible job with it so I highly recommend. For what it's worth I use Training Peaks, currently, somewhat for personal training and more so for athletes I coach and it's OK...the aspects of training peaks I like is just the simplicity of having all athletes there and being able to work with all types of endurance sports, however, the dashboard view and trying to go back to see certain workouts, sessions, etc isn't the greatest and expensive on coaches side.

I have used running2win in the past (I started with that back in 2010) which was awesome! I know Hoya is still in the process of developing his new running2win platform so right now it's not the greatest but have high hopes for it when he finishes it (might not be until the end of the year though)

may I ask how you set up your heart rate zones on intervals.icu? I haven't done a pace test yet, and my intervals page is heavily influenced by my former cycling data. Do you use the standard 7 zone model the page has as a default?

I recon that once I have done a lactate pace test, it is best to use % of threshold pace instead of %LTHR or %HRR? Any tips on how runners do this is greatly appreciated. My mind has had a very FTP focused view lately, so I need to reprogram it to running.

What do you guys do with all that data?