Looking at the Swimming information obtained from intervals.icu and trying to help improve its usefulness, I feel the Best Efforts table isn’t reflective for swimming.
i.e. in this swim I did yesterday I did 30x50m with 10-20 seconds rest in between, so 1,500m all up.
The best effort table should only show a value for 50m in “this swim”, i.e. I never did 100m without a short break so anything beyond 50m in this activity should not be populated, and the same for 42 days, This Season.
This is how other swim sites show the personal best times, so for example below in red would not be populated
The intervals automatically picked up in this activity don’t reflect the workout and would need to be accurate to poplulate the table correctly. ie. below intervals.icu detects the first 550m grouped below incorrectly. I know I can delete it, however this particular swim there was no errors in laps etc.
That is quite tricky to do unfortunately. The best efforts come from the pace curve for the activity and that doesn’t consider stops and so on. This all has its roots in Intervals.icu only supporting cycling initially.
Thanks, thought that might be the case. I must admit my swims in intervals.icu are looking better since switching to importing via Garmin rather than Strava.
note - I have auto rest feature turned off, and manually press lap button for each interval. Also if I am doing any swim drills I use the swim drill feature which both help keep the swim activity accurate.
One thing that would be useful for best efforts would be allowing users to set a floor (or ceiling, depending on your perspective) on the best effort you can do. For instance in my screenshot, it says that my best effort in the last 84 days is 13s/50m, which is not just a WR, it may even be a WR even with fins on. I happen to know from racing that my absolute fastest pace is around 28s for 50m. Anything meaningfully faster than that must have been done with fins. Even just limiting the 50m time and nothing else would be a big benefit, but ideally I’d be able to set a fastest known/estimated time for any of my intervals.
Hello! Was anything like this ever done? I was just checking over my intervals and I’m still seeing the same thing–my pace times are beyond WR for whatever reason–and I’d still like to find some way to analyze my pace time data without seeing anomalies like this.
I looked around, but I didn’t see anything like what you mentioned, but maybe I’m just missing it.
