Structured Procrastination » turbo http://blog.adamspiers.org because there's always something more interesting than what you should be doing Sat, 05 May 2012 16:47:15 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.2 CompuTrainer on Linux http://blog.adamspiers.org/2009/06/20/computrainer-on-linux/ http://blog.adamspiers.org/2009/06/20/computrainer-on-linux/#comments Sat, 20 Jun 2009 18:13:45 +0000 Adam http://wordpress.adamspiers.org/?p=104

Finally started using my CompuTrainer a bit more. Just rode 20km in the lounge with the computer pacing me at 200 Watts. After so much riding with guys way stronger than me, the temptation to draft the computer is difficult to resist. However in the last 500 metres it spontaneously decided to make a sprint for the finish line – the bloody cheek! Obviously I couldn’t allow a bunch of transistors to beat me so I sprinted after it and hit the finish line 0.05 seconds ahead, narrowly avoiding embarassment. Next step is to start doing brick sessions …

By the way, in case anyone googles for computrainer linux, I am actually running it under VMware Workstation on LinuxMCE 0710 which is based on Ubuntu Gutsy. It works great with the unfortunate exception of the Interactive Real Course Videos (IRCV), which seems to be due to missing support in VMware Workstation for VMR9. I’ve posted about this in both VMware Communities and the RacerMate Forum but noone has been able to suggest a solution so far.

UPDATE 15th February 2010 – great news! Check out this fantastic new piece of software called Golden Cheetah!

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