setting up power zones in Golden Cheetah

[Kreuzberg]

Hi all,
So I downloaded Golden Cheetah, and running it works fine, I imported
rides into it and it all worked. When I went to set up my power zones,
it wouldn't work. I put the file in the right place, and I set the
dates and zones correctly. But BikeScore and time spent in zones, etc
remain blank. Any insights into making it work?
Thanks
Kreuzberg

[Justin F. Knotzke]

2009/11/2 Kreuzberg <sjon...@gmail.com>

   We'll need to see your power.zones file

   J 

[Kreuzberg]

Heres what it looks like: (don't laugh at my unimpressive numbers, ha)

From 2009/10/01 until END, CP=210:
1, Active Recovery, 0, 115
2, Endurance, 116, 159
3, Tempo, 160, 189
4, Lactate Threshold, 190, 220
5, VO2 Max, 221, 250
6, Anaerobic Capacity, 251, 329
7, Sprinting, 330, MAX


I saved it to user>library>golden cheetah> user

On Nov 2, 8:25 am, "Justin F. Knotzke" <jknot...@shampoo.ca> wrote:
> 2009/11/2 Kreuzberg <sjone...@gmail.com>

[Jamie Kimberley]

See below...

On Mon, 2 Nov 2009, Kreuzberg wrote:

>
> Heres what it looks like: (don't laugh at my unimpressive numbers, ha)
>
> From 2009/10/01 until END, CP=210:
> 1, Active Recovery, 0, 115
> 2, Endurance, 116, 159
> 3, Tempo, 160, 189
> 4, Lactate Threshold, 190, 220
> 5, VO2 Max, 221, 250
> 6, Anaerobic Capacity, 251, 329
> 7, Sprinting, 330, MAX

This looks good to me. I copied into a power.zones file and it
seems to work fine.

>
> I saved it to user>library>golden cheetah> user

I'm not sure what OS you are on, but on the Mac there is no space
and there are some capitals (which may make a difference) in the
path to the GoldenCheetah directory.

the proper directory is:
$HOME/Library/GoldenCheetah/*rider*

where *rider* is the rider directory containing your ride files. and
$HOME is your home directory.

Also be sure that you don't have an extension on the power.zones
file (e.g. check that it is not power.zones.txt)

you can also generate a power.zones file (to some degree) using the
preferences menu item.

Jamie

> On Nov 2, 8:25 am, "Justin F. Knotzke" <jknot...@shampoo.ca> wrote:
>> 2009/11/2 Kreuzberg <sjone...@gmail.com>
>>
>>
>>
>>> Hi all,
>>> So I downloaded Golden Cheetah, and running it works fine, I imported
>>> rides into it and it all worked. When I went to set up my power zones,
>>> it wouldn't work. I put the file in the right place, and I set the
>>> dates and zones correctly. But BikeScore and time spent in zones, etc
>>> remain blank. Any insights into making it work?
>>> Thanks
>>
>>>    We'll need to see your power.zones file
>>
>>    J
> >
>

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[Andy Froncioni]

On 2-Nov-09, at 3:11 PM, Jamie Kimberley wrote:

> See below...
>
> On Mon, 2 Nov 2009, Kreuzberg wrote:
>
>>
>> Heres what it looks like: (don't laugh at my unimpressive numbers,
>> ha)
>>
>> From 2009/10/01 until END, CP=210:
>> 1, Active Recovery, 0, 115
>> 2, Endurance, 116, 159
>> 3, Tempo, 160, 189
>> 4, Lactate Threshold, 190, 220
>> 5, VO2 Max, 221, 250
>> 6, Anaerobic Capacity, 251, 329
>> 7, Sprinting, 330, MAX
>
> This looks good to me. I copied into a power.zones file and it
> seems to work fine.

What happens at a power of 159.5? What zone is that? Has the issue
of using
intervals that touch been discussed yet? What happens at those gaps
in the power zones?

Andy Froncioni
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[Kreuzberg]

Ok thanks for trying it...i double check to make sure i was doing
exactly as you said and I am, but it still isn't working. I just ended
up going into preferences and adjusting critical power from there, but
I would like to get the power.zones thing right.

> E-Mail:jamie.kimber...@jhu.edu

[Jamie Kimberley]

Can you send your power.zones file to the list as an attachment,
copy/paste from e-mail may not yield the same file.

Also, now that you have set your cp via the GUI you should be able
to edit that power.zones file. as a check, just try to edit the cp
value in that file and see if the changes show up after you relaunch
GC.

Thanks,
Jamie

E-Mail:jamie.k...@jhu.edu