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2015-01-27 5:36 AM

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Hi gang. I've been reviewing the various activity tracking web sites out there, one per week, for a few weeks now. This week I'm putting Final Surge through the gauntlet. As always, I'm reviewing each based on its free feature set only, with a consistent evaluation script to try and keep things fair. Have a look if you're interested!

http://quantitativetriathlon.blogspot.com/2015/01/review-final-surg...


2015-01-27 10:11 AM
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Thanks...I for one am following this.

2015-02-03 5:48 AM
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This week I take a look at EndoMondo. Have a look! As always, let me know if there's anything I've missed, or if there is a site you'd like me to check out. Thanks!

http://quantitativetriathlon.blogspot.com/2015/02/review-endomondo....
2015-02-03 5:56 AM
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This week I take a look at EndoMondo. Have a look! As always, let me know if there's anything I've missed, or if there is a site you'd like me to check out. Thanks!

http://quantitativetriathlon.blogspot.com/2015/02/review-endomondo....


this is well done !!!

I have not tried them all but your scoring of endurancetracker is consistent with my experience with it.

Would you say it's the best one you've tested to date ?

2015-02-03 9:28 AM
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Thanks! Trying to be fair with them, great to hear it's received well.

In terms of covering all of the points and doing so free of charge, Endurance Tracker is very strong as evidenced in their score. As a single data store, Garmin Connect and Suunto's Movescount are also very strong, but neither have the coaching or training planning features that really drive their usefulness. I think the best of the class are those that somehow take your data and *help* you train, guiding you through best practices, and forcing athletes to consider planning and execution as an the most important facet of training. Without those tools or visualization, it's just a bunch of meaningless data. In that regard, Strava has 'made' something with the data, but it's more for competition, and less for training -sort of a 'look at what i did' thing rather than a 'help me get where i want to go' thing.

I'd like to see more of these pop up with different competitive features, I see these all as converging towards open source, and I'd like to help herd it that direction. It's frustrating to me that coaches have to pay so much to be slave to software, and that athletes get burdened with the same costs as they are passed on. The coaches should be earning the money, not covering costs, and athletes who operate without a coach shouldn't be denied tools to help them train because of that.
2015-02-19 6:54 AM
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Another review, this time of the behemoth Garmin Connect. Have a read!
http://quantitativetriathlon.blogspot.com/2015/02/site-garmin-conne...



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I've always heard negative things about Garmin Connect, but it works for me. I've tried Strava (which I still use b/c the rest of my team does), Endurance Tracker, this site, etc and it's just easier to use Garmin, even with the auto import feature. It's frustrating when they have problems as they seem to take forever to fix (see earlier this year) but that could be related to building their own platform. I do not use any of the coaching features, so that's not important to me.
2015-02-19 5:30 PM
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Great project!  I wouldn't have had any idea that Endurance Tracker would have rated so highly, and Training Peaks so poorly.  

I started with Nike+, but it lacked features.

Then when I got a garmin, used Garmin connect.

and then found Beginner Triathlete

And Daily Mile

and Strava

and now Movescount

I'm currently keeping up 4 separate logs, each with their own unique purpose.  I haven't found one place that does everything I want.

My wife has learned not to bug me for about 20 min after every run, while I log everything.  

2015-02-26 12:21 PM
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Another review, this week it's Movescount on the block:
http://quantitativetriathlon.blogspot.com/2015/02/review-suunto-mov...


By the way, morey000 - I feel your pain. At the end of the series, I'm going to put my best foot forward as a software developer and see if I can't beat them all, and offer something that does it all for free. When that day comes, hopefully you'll have something that meets your needs, as well as all of us triathlon data dorks!
2015-02-27 11:37 AM
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People might be interested in https://tapiriik.com/which will sync data between multiple tracking sites.


I use it to sync Runkeeper and Strava, but it also supports quite a few others, including endomondo and garmin.
2015-03-06 11:37 AM
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This time, BT itself is reviewed (for its activity tracking content only by the way!). See how it does!

http://quantitativetriathlon.blogspot.com/2015/03/review-beginner-t...


2015-03-06 12:33 PM
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probably a fair review.  I stick with BT as one of my logs, as its gear tracker is good.  It's my primary tool to know how many miles I have on each of my dozen pair of running shoes.  A little clunky, true.  Also- I've got years worth of history in it, so it's the only one where I can compare how much I trained 4 years ago to this year.

2015-03-15 12:19 PM
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Another entry in the books, this time for Sportlyzer. A pretty interesting tool, worth checking out!

http://quantitativetriathlon.blogspot.com/2015/03/reviewsportlyzer....
2015-03-20 3:12 PM
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This week I look at MapMyFitness, tune in to see how it holds up!

http://quantitativetriathlon.blogspot.com/2015/03/review-mapmyfitne...
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