Garmin: Reinventing the Wheel (Read 1293 times)

I think Eric is building something that will integrate this site with Garmin, so maybe I shouldn't worry about these other programs, but: Anyone have experience with Motion Based and/or Training Peaks? Brochures came in my Garmin box. I don't know if they'd add value beyond what Training Center and this site offer. And I bet whatever Eric comes up with will be awesomer/est. Any users care to share? Thanks. And by the way, this site so rocks.

Anyone have experience with Motion Based and/or Training Peaks? Brochures came in my Garmin box.

I can't imagine life with a Forerunner and not using Motionbased. (or one of the alternatives...) If all that's desired is to have basic pace and distance information on the current run, then I can see not using software to collect and anayze data, otherwise some software to collect and organize the gps data is a good thing. I do pay the annual fee for Motionbased rather than screw around with the limitations of free access.

I can't imagine life with a Forerunner and not using Motionbased. (or one of the alternatives...) ........... I do pay the annual fee for Motionbased rather than screw around with the limitations of free access.

Agreed with the first part. I can't imagine using the Garmin and not using Motionbased. That place is addictive, too. I can spend altogether too much time looking at the pretty graphs. But why pay the annual fee? If there are more features (read: more useless shiny graphs to mesmerize me) I might be tempted. What do you get for your fee?

http://www.motionbased.com/info/product/view.mb?tile=info.product.benefits_mb has a nice summary of the difference between the Garmin Training Center (TC) that comes with the Forerunner and the Motionbased service. http://www.motionbased.com/info/product/view.mb?tile=info.product.chart shows the advantages of the paid version of Motionbased. For me, the biggest are that I have 2years of activities to sort, display and track (rather than the 10 the free will display) and the saved reports. I am not shilling for Motionbased, it is just something that I really enjoy using to track my data.