What’s the biggest competitor/threat for training peaks?
If/when the TP crowd needs/wants an alternative, where would they go? Apologies if out of scope for this thread, just curious.
Biggest threat is anyone who can come up with a decent UI, add in some better analytics, make a good looking platform, maybe add a social component to it and most of all make it easy for the end user and coaches who coach many athletes.
The analytics are deep enough for the average person but not for most coaches or for a deep dive into the why behind one’s power. IIRC TP said that only around 20-25% of it’s user base also uses something like WKO 5. That’s, imo, not really an incentive for TP to add a bunch of wko functionality to it. (I mean are they even putting any resources behind wko5 anymore?)
Biggest drawback is Training Peaks, or as I refer to it to my athletes, TP (pun intended? You be the judge) is pretty well established and has a lot of traction. Athletes know it. It’s fairly simple to write workouts, which some other platforms struggled with. The cost to overcome that entrenchment is going to be pretty high. It’s kinda like duathlon. If you want to put on a duathlon you’ll probably need to spend $3-5 more per participant for marketing than if you put on a triathlon and that’s every year for 3-5 years to get established and a large enough paying user base.
I dislike TP, but every other year or so I do a deep dive into what’s out there, the costs from my end etc and TP typically checks more boxes than competitors plus my athletes are familiar with it.
Final Surge, intervals.icu, athletica.ai, sciencetraining.io (almost switched to this a few years ago but they couldn’t do bulk billing then) are all competitors. I’m sure there are others I can’t think of currently.