CompTrainer data Question

murphy.m.j

I am a newbie to all the power stuff; have a PowerTap Plus and downloaded the data to "just" my power agent software.  I mistakenly (if this is a real word) deleted the data before i put it into WKO.

I looked at the data file, its a .GZ meaning its a compressed format.  i used 7-zip uncompressed it and ti looks like "real" data.  anyone know if its possible to get the data into WKO or TrainingPeaks?

It would be nice but not a must have set of data, its more of a mental excercise and curiosity.  thanks.

tgarson

Just to clarify, you want to load your CompuTrainer workout data into WKO? This is possible, but I'm not familiar with the .GZ file extension. At the completion of a workout on the CT you of course have to select the "Save Performance" option, then the data files I think are under the "Perfs" folder, for Performance data.

The next steps I remember how to do but don't remember the exact menu process so perhaps someone else can chime in. From my hazy memory, I don't remember the exact file format that the Perf files are saved in, but there is an extra step before you can load them into WKO. Next, I open up the CT ErgMode program again, but don't actually launch into manual ErgMode, in the menu system choose Export and you should see the Export Options, I only the few fields that a normal computer would actually record (Distance, Speed, HR, Power, etc) rather than the full set that the CT can record (L/R power etc) then you choose the Perf file and it will convert the file to a text format which WKO can parse.

There may be a more straightforward way to do this, but since I have a PM as well I probably like most people just load from my 310xt rather than from the CT 99% of the time.

murphy.m.j

thanks so much, i did not realize that there was an export option for .pwr files that will go into TrainingPeaks.  kewl, now when i really need this I can easily put it into TP.com.

 

thanks again.

wieczynski

One thing that I learned was that you can drag the file directly from windows explorer to WKO. No problem!

One caution is that some of the compu-trainer files get loaded into the wrong year. You'll always need to double check.