Hi there, I enjoyed this episode on the development of TrainingPeaks over many years. I heard Gear Fisher mention that some of the pro tour teams use TP to bring in glucose data. I would be interested in hearing more about this. As an avid cyclist with long-standing type 1 diabetes, I have petitioned TrainingPeaks, Strava, Wahoo and others in the past to incorporate CGM data alongside other metrics. I can’t tell you how helpful this would be. for athletes with type 1 diabetes. I understand supersapiens didn’t work out, but the target audience there was people w/o diabetes since most people with diabetes didn’t use that CGM (and CGMs have to also be compatible with other diabetes tech, especially insulin pumps, and supersapiens wasn’t). If TrainingPeaks is doing this now, it would be amazing. The data is all there on iOS just sitting in the Apple Health app; there are numerous 3rd party apps (targeted to people with diabetes and nutrition apps) that use this data already. I also believe the FDA loosened the rules for using the data many years ago. Anyway, it caught my attention and I wonder if there is additional info on this capability within the TrainingPeaks system, or if TP might work on it in the future. I think the UCI killed supersapiens by not allowing them in competition. There are a few very stable, standard CGMs that most people with diabetes use. Cheers.
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Did you reach out to Team Novo Nordisk and how/if they’re working with TP?
What I took away from this pod was that if it was in your .fit file, TP could use it. And there’s the rub. Your head unit needs to capture it. I think Garmin Connect IQ has some apps that incorporate CGM data, so I would assume that it goes into a .fit file, but not 100% positive about that. I don’t know about other head units, and I could be totally wrong about that, too.
Another stupid UCI rule… if you’re going to allow feeding from team cars, why not a CGM. Personally, I’d love to try one, but I don’t have diabetes and they are a bit too expensive for casual use and without an Rx.