Of course Lionel Reynaud, 35, I raced at amateur level at the end of the 90’s and now coaching Elite riders from more than 10 years. I began to work with powermeters in 2000 as the key value to lead training. I worked with some manufacturers to improve tools and software. From end of 2005 to 2007 I worked for Cofidis Team and in 2008 I joined British Cycling to be now qualified coach in UK.
When the developers team contacted me I was a little amazed as honestly I didn’t have any iPhone. They presented me this fantastic tool and they told me if you want to have your app, we are your team!
I thought a lot to define a cycling app, and I took me as an example. I’m very busy between my job, my riders to coach, the conferences I perform, my family and home stuff but I would like to be able to train too with little slot. I decided first to develop a workouts database, then we improved it proposing some mesocycles for time crunched cyclists.
The main goal of our App is to transform each of your rides in structured coaching session and to be coached by Elite coach. I want users to be stronger, fitter and to enjoy to be considered as Pro rider. For CoachMyRide V1, we have 99 workouts available for 3 training duration 60, 90, 120 minutes with 3 levels of difficulty.
CoachMyride is designed for the moment for all level riders, from beginners to racers. For a beginner 2hrs intense session is a maximum. Anyway if the feedback from users claims more than 2 hrs, we will upgrade the workouts.
We tried to cover all needs of Endurance Cycling from strength to subthreshold intervals. You will find the same kind of workouts as I use with my pro riders but customised for beginner to advanced riders.
As I’m French but now British Coach, CoachMyRide is available in French and in English. We are still under discussion to add more languages.
Yes the same kind of workout that was a key goal when we designed CoachMyRide.
On this point, the feedback is pretty good and users told me I’d like to know that S.Chavanel is performing in winter the same kind of things I do in my bike.
We are still in the first step in CoachMyRide Project and we still have a lot to do. Our App is not a frozen app and we rely on users to propose some way of improvements; we have a lot of ideas as you can imagine but we want to stick on users request first. As in every coaching relation, the basis is what needs the riders.
I’m still coaching my Elite riders on daily basis, some are in the Vuelta; others are preparing end of seasons classics such as Sebastien Chavanel (Europcar). We are already planning 2012 main goals with for some is Tour de France and for others London 2012.
I hope to find time too to make some conferences in UK and in the continent about modern training and I continue to share my experience with British Cycling Coaches.
Toulouse, September 21th 2011