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<h2>Introduction</h2>
<p>This is a solution for the self-tracking rowers.</p>
<p>Some of us use Concept2 rowing machines. Some of us are On-The-Water
rowers. All of us will use smartphone apps, smart watches, fitness (GPS)
watches, etc. to track our activities.</p>
<p>Most of them will cross-train. Bike. Run. Skate.</p>
<p>That means, the Concept2 logbook is not a sufficient training logbook for us.</p>
<p>At the same time, the Concept2 logbook is used in rankings, for challenges,
and more. Many of us will want to log all our rowing on the Concept2 logbook.</p>
<p>So there are a couple of challenges here:</p>
<ul>
<li><p>How do I get my erg rows on Strava/SportTracks/Garmin Connect?</p>
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<ul>
<li>Use an ANT+ device, like explained here: <a href="https://dr3do.wordpress.com/2015/07/09/hurray/" rel="nofollow">https://dr3do.wordpress.com/2015/07/09/hurray/</a></li>
<li>Import from RowPro to SportTracks</li>
<li>There are many smartphone apps to capture data from the PM3/4/5 erg monitor. Not many of them export in a format that is suitable for upload to the above-mentioned sites.</li>
</ul>
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<li><p>How do I get all my rows (including OTW) into the Concept2 logbook</p>
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<ul>
<li>For On-Water and Erg: Add them manually</li>
<li>For erg: Upload from ErgData, RowPro, Concept2 utility</li>
</ul>
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</li>
</ul>
<p>This project aims at giving you ways to:</p>
<ul>
<li><p>Upload fitness data captured in TCX format to the Concept2 logbook (implemented)</p>
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<ul>
<li>This should cover all your On-Water activities, whether they are captured with a SpeedCoach, a GPS fitness watch, your phone, or any other device. As long as you are able to export a valid TCX file.</li>
</ul>
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</li>
<li><p>Get erg data captured with apps that have no <q>upload to Concept2</q> functionality and upload them to the Concept2 logbook (implemented)</p>
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<ul>
<li>For example: painsled</li>
</ul>
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<li><p>Create useful plots. Who wants to be limited to what the on-line logbooks plot. Get your data and create:</p>
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<ul>
<li>Color HR band charts or Pie Charts (implemented)</li>
<li>Plot drive length, drive time, and other erg related parameters as a function of time or distance (to be implemented)</li>
</ul>
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</li>
</ul>
<p>For some quick tutorials on how to use the site, please jump to our <a href="/rowers/videos">Videos Page</a>

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<h2>Credits</h2>
<p>The project is based on python plotting code by
Greg Smith (<a href="https://quantifiedrowing.wordpress.com/" rel="nofollow">https://quantifiedrowing.wordpress.com/</a>)
and inspired by the RowPro Dan Burpee spreadsheet
(<a href="http://www.sub7irc.com/RP_Split_Template.zip" rel="nofollow">http://www.sub7irc.com/RP_Split_Template.zip</a>).</p>
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<h2>Pro Membership</h2>

<p>Donations are welcome to keep this web site going. To help cover the hosting 
costs, I have created a <q>Pro</q> membership option (for only 5 EURO per year). Once I process your
donation, I will give you access to some <q>special</q> features on this 
website. </p>

<p>Currently, the Pro membership will give you the following extra functionality (and more will follow):
<ul>
	<li>More stroke metrics plots</li>
	<li>Power curves for OTW rowing</li>
	<li>Power histogram</li>
</ul>
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<p>Click on the PayPal button to pay for your Pro membership. It will be valid for one year with automatic renewal which you can stop at any time. 
You will be taken to the secure PayPal payment site.
<ul>
<li>Please mention the username you are registered under in "instructions to seller".</li>
</ul>
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<h2>What's new?</h2>

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<ul>
<li>2016-11-01 Sliders to select subsets of data on some plots</li>
<li>2016-11-01 Emailing workouts to workouts@rowsandall.com </li>
<li>2016-09-30 Stroke Analysis Plot - with date range filtering</li>
<li>2016-09-29 Improved Flex plot, Power Histogram and Ranking Pieces - with date range filtering</li>
<li>2016-09-20 Added the Power histogram</li>
<li>2016-08-31 Added the Ranking Piece summary and pace predictor</li>
<li>2016-08-02 Added support for the SpeedCoach GPS 2 CSV/FIT file export</li>
<li>2016-07-19 Added the possibility to download wind data from <a href="http://forecast.io">The Dark Sky / Forecast.io</a></li>
<li>2016-07-19 New Flexible interactive charts for OTE and OTW (pick your own axes parameters)</li>
<li>2016-07-07 Wind and Stream corrections for OTW (Pro functionality)</li>
<li>2016-06-23 Pro users can now compare workouts</li>
<li>2016-06-20 Fixed Strava upload and added SportTracks import and export. The export is not working reliably. We are debugging this,</li>
<li>2016-06-08 Added possibility to upload CrewNerd summary CSV file for Pro Members</li>
<li>2016-06-08 Added workout summaries</li>
<li>2016-06-05 Export to Strava is working</li>
<li>2016-06-01 We're approved on the Concept2 logbook!!!!
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