During the last blog post, I had talked about why 90 Revolutions has been so quiet.  Essentially, all of our resources have been going into designing and creating the ultimate online training program for triathletes and duathletes.  We had to develop a strong team to complete such a big project.  We could not have done it ourselves. So we’ve teamed up with Agile Infoways, a series of the hard-working developers, and DashWare.

Many of you may have experienced a virtual real course. The CompuTrainer and Tacx trainers are known for making indoor cycling more entertaining.  Although I am not a huge fan of indoor training, when I’ve had to resort to being a hamster on a wheel, I have appreciated my CompuTrainer and the variety of courses it provides.  When designing some of the future software to help out with training, we wanted to eliminate the boredom of cycling inside and to provide some variety.

The company DashWare has helped dramatically in this creation.  DashWare was designed, developed, and co-founded by Mark Vaden and Rolf Fischer. It is based out of San Diego, California.  Mark and Rolf are software engineers who have a passion for action sports, especially motorsports.

Both are amateur racers who race a 60s Triumph TR4 vintage series.  Rolf also rides a Suzuki GSX-R1000 motorcycle on a road courses and a Honda CRF450 on supermotor courses. So these guys are fun-loving, endurance junkies. A perfect connection for endurance sports.

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In the past few months, 90 Revolutions has been quiet. You haven’t received a new newsletter, a new podcast, or a new blog post. I feel I owe you an explanation for my MIA status.

Deep in our underground bunker, miles below the surface at an undisclosed location, we’ve been working on training software that we hope will be a great tool to support the way athletes train.  And like all other projects, it’s taken well beyond the expected time to complete.  While this has been frustrating, it has also been exciting because we feel like we’re designing a useful training tool that will make training more user-friendly and efficient while enhancing performance and reducing the chance of injury.  As one part of the program was completed a whole new set of problems and issue emerged.  Finding solutions for those problems yielded better functionality and ultimately a more solid program.  So, even though progress was, at times, slower than Great Aunt Mildred running a 10K, we firmly believe that if you’re going to do something, you’ve got to do it right.

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