I was hesitant to pick up the Garmin Edge 305 until MotionBased finished it’s long promised Training Center software for Mac, though support through a browser plug-in appeased me enough for the purchase a few months ago. The plug-in allows me to upload my cycling GPS and fitness stats so I can manage and manipulate them online, but the website lacks some features native to the client app written for Windows.

I had hoped Parallels for Mac would enable USB communication to the device, but the latest revision I did not. Regardless, I’m not doing much riding in the winter, and the browser upload was sufficient.

But today! Garmin released their Training Center for Mac! Looking forward to much playing with data.

We’ll see how this runs after the download. It’s frighteningly twice the size of the Windows version. I’m guessing fat localization and universal binary overhead; perhaps monolingual will help.