Golden Cheetah: Analyzing your Ride

all right guys so what I want to talk about in this video is once you've started playing with golden cheetah you've got it installed maybe you've imported some rides um what you can find pretty quickly is it's not clear how you should actually use this software in order to look at your rides find out um if they're doing what you want them to be doing as far as your training and all that and basically just to get the most out of it so you can see there's lots of options and these are not even all of them so what I want to talk about is just the most important three or four things things you should be doing after each ride so uh one thing that I think is just sort of fun is let's say you've already imported your rid you go activity import from file select it from your garment or whatever so let me look at a group right here so something that's uh fun to do is to go to your CP your critical power one so if you're not familiar with it real quickly CP you've got this uh blue curve going along here the bumpy one and that just shows the best power you've put out at different time ranges so everything from 1 second up to I assume whatever your longest so for example for me if we look at my 5-second power my best ever 5-second power is41 watts and you can see when you did it so by default this thing uh picked a certain range I believe six months but if you go to all chart settings you can tell it what you wanted to pick do you just want to look at uh recent ones or do you want to look at a whole bunch of time frames okay so a nice thing with that is you can quickly see see your red curve is the ride you just selected so I've selected my group ride and lately I've been working on my one two minute power that kind of range and I see here that my red curve I set a best everywhere from roughly a minute and a half to about 3 minutes or so so that shows that that trading I've been doing has been working and it showed up on this ride and I sort of put out decent power compared to my best in some of the longer ranges okay so that's just sort of fun to see how how it worked so let's say you've imported a ride um and you look and you say great I can see where I how I did