So the old Computrainer has about given up the ghost, I can't complain, I've had it, or most of it since the last century. I'm looking at replacing it with something like a Wahoo Kickr or TacX Neo and it looks like everything seems to come with some kind of subscription. I have a moral objection to buying any product that locks me into a subscription for the rest of my life to make it useful. With the CT, I bought it, I used it, I built an occasional custom course for training, I downloaded the occasional course somebody posted for a major race, and used it without looking at it as another cell phone bill. The first thing I noticed about the TacX was all the wonderful subscriptions you could get with it. I'm not saying I might not try something like Zwift to see how it works out, but I was perfectly happy with CT's system other than the the fact that it ate tires. And if I try Zwift and a TacX, have I now got two subscriptions I have to pay for????? My CT Pro was a fairly pricey system 20 years ago but at least after It arrived and set up I was done paying for it. Am I missing the boat and all the new systems will work fine stand alone and will give you old Computrainer like capabilities? Or, is it now a subscription world to get past a mid level trainer?
Every night that I run, the thought crosses my mind that there's no way in hell I'll still be running a month from now.
Every night that I run, the thought crosses my mind that there's no way in hell I'll still be running a month from now.