New Golden Cheetah

amaferanga

I've just installed the latest (built on the 2nd May) GC for Windows: Golden Cheetah

Its not the official release yet, but everything seems to work and its a HUGE step forward from 1.3 (which was already very good).

It now includes plotting of metrics over time, mapping and something called Aerolab (that I'm not really sure what to do with). There's also keyword colour coding in the calendar view which is pretty cool.

Its basically bloody brilliant

DaveyL

Thanks for the heads up - will check it out.

Alex_Simmons/RST

amaferanga wrote:

and something called Aerolab (that I'm not really sure what to do with).

It's an auto implementation of the Virtual Elevation (Chung) method of assessing aerodynamics.

DaveyL

That clears it up then

amaferanga

Thanks Alex.

A quick Google found this on estimating CdA using virtual elevation.

DaveyL

amaferanga wrote:

Thanks Alex.

A quick Google found this on estimating CdA using virtual elevation.

Great find - have tucked it away for later

liversedge

Thanks for the plug!

There are loads of other minor things in there like configurable colors on plots, a stacked view of a ride plot and support for Joule FIT and Polar SRD format files.

There are lots of other features on there way too, I have developed a 2d scatter plot, TrainingPeaks upload/download and a bunch of new ride metrics. But they are likely to arrive in the autumn.

Since most of the devs are now racing their socks off the likelihood of a formal new release in the short term is looking unlikely, but you never know!

amaferanga

It really is a very impressive bit of software now. That it's free is great, but I'd happily pay good money for it - its THAT good! I'm so glad I didn't waste my money on WKO+.