PC Coach Elite Version 4.7.1 BETA Now Available

On Tuesday, October 3, PC Coach Elite version 4.7.1 beta went up on the support page. A few intrepid customers have already tried it out. You may want to as well. Or, if you want to wait for the final release of 4.7.1, check the site in two or three weeks or wait for the next newsletter.

We recommend that coaches and coaching clients (sending and receiving workouts via email) wait for the final release. As this release updates the workout definitions, it will require coach and client both to install the update before either one sends the other an RCS (Remote Coaching Service) email.

There are two primary purposes to the 4.7 release. The first is to update all of the workouts that are part of the following training plans:

Mike Pigg’s Triathlon
Roy Benson’s Running
Jeff Galloway’s Marathon / Half-Marathon
PC Coach Cycling

The new fields in these workouts provide a lot of new data that can be incorporated into long-term graphs. Depending on your monitor, these fields are filled in automatically when you download your workouts or the data can be entered manually. The data conversion step (automatic on login after installing 4.7) populates these fields for your past workouts, making the new data items available for all your historical data as well.

The second purpose of version 4.7 is to work in a lot of bug fixes and have a very stable release prior to version 5. We are already working on V5, and it is important to have a very stable, complete and bug-free V4 before we leave that platform.

Here is a list of features and fixes in PC Coach 4.7.1:

• Update workouts found in training plans by Mike Pigg, Roy Benson, Jeff Galloway, and PC Coach Cycling Plan. New fields include:


• Time in 5 training zones
• Distance of intervals
• Time in, above and below limits
• Altitude parameters, including elevation gained and lost
• Temperature
• Power information (for cycling workouts)


• Fix for PC Coach installations not located on the C: drive, and customers whose operating system is not installed on C:.
• New and improved logic for updating workout definitions – including an automatic backup and a more helpful wizard.
• New macro calls, many of which are used in the new fields of the training plan workout definitions.


• Time in, above, and below training thresholds.
• Power: minimum, start, averages, max and ending
• Total Power (watt-hours)
• Distance of intervals.
• Average distance of intervals
• Time in zones macros are more comprehensive
• Temperature
• Altitude: min, start, average, max, ending, and gain and loss
• And many more.


• RS200 and CS200 owners can now see pie charts of time in zones based on the sportzones as defined in those monitors.
• Some scheduling bugs were fixed in the Galloway plan, especially around January 2007.
• Fixes to several cases of US vs metric units conversion from watch to PC.
• More robust support for the new IrDA interface from Polar. This is now the default.
• Fix for cases where the workout is begun before the link is established between chest strap and monitor, and before the altimeter is online and reporting good values.
• Fixed overwrite of certain user settings in Polar models, such as logo, user id, altimeter on/off.