The 'Mute

I have the Garmin Edge 305 GPS gizmo for my bike and it’s fantastic… it uploads to their own website fine (but the site is a little slow, completely flash based and at times I find it somewhat annoying that it keeps opening new windows all the time) but it’s not possible to compare rides or any of those fancy things…

So on my Internet travels I found some software called Ascent which I downloaded and had a nose around, very good software that has some nice features but when I went to buy it the online shopping experience was awful, it used kagi.com and I could deselect a feature I didn’t want so I cancelled the order… a short while later whilst browsing their forum I spotted a reference to rubiTrack and had a look… initially it didn’t look as good as Ascent but having used it for a short while it’s absolutely fantastic!

If you are in the market for some GPS training software then I would strongly recommend rubiTrack – it’s fantastic…

There are some missing features, it’d be nice to be able to create my training programmes in a single app (currently I’d use Garmin Training Centre for that) but I mentioned the ability to show different metrics (speed, altitude etc.) in different measures, i.e. speed in MPH, altitude in metres and within days there was a posting offering a new version that included the feature… wonderful customer service :)

It’s not free but at well under £25 it’s good value and keeps making me smile as I discover more features the developers don’t seem to sing much about…

Robert…