Apologies... newbie and I did search. Trainingpeaks uses .gz format and is not recognized when I try to bring data to GC

[Les Akins]

Computer challenged would be a kind description for me.  I've got  months of data on trainingpeaks.com and although I am linked to another coaching account, my account is labeled premium which is why I have been able to download my data but the file extension says .fit.gz  Found a previous thread regarding the same issue: 

 https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topicsearchin/golden-cheetah-users/download$20files$20from$20trainingpeaks/golden-cheetah-users/aNEdesdggWU 

Of course even if I rename the file to eliminate the .gz Golden Cheetah won't open the file. I have 205 .gz files and that is it.  Of course I have strava files but despite requesting these files I have not received the email to download those.  Anyone figured out how to get trainingpeaks.com files into GC?

Thanks in advance.

[Mark Liversedge]

You can download direct from training peaks.

There is a video tutorial on the website www.goldencheetah.org for working with TrainingPeaks.com

Mark

[Claus Assmann]

> won't open the file. I have 205 .gz files and that is it. Of course I have

If you still want to use those files:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gzip

gunzip will uncompress them and then you have .fit files that you
can (probably?) import (I've never done it because I don't have
.fit files).

On Unix you could use something like:
for i in *.fit.gz
do
gunzip $i
done

[Les Akins]

Thanks very much. Got my files downloaded.  Next task is to figure out how to download from strava or garmin connect but all of these sites seem to use proprietary file extensions so that you can't simply download.  Have NOT searched yet but will do so.  Wanted to make sure I thanked you folks for the responses though.

Cheers.