Intervals.icu generally rounds down so 4.997km is 4.99km on the activity view.
The “best effort” algorithm looks for sections of the run that are >= 5000m (e.g. 5003m), works out the pace in meters/sec for the actual distance (5003m) and then calculates the seconds for the best effort distance (e.g. 5000m) from that.
I don’t think there is much I can do about this unfortunately.
This new feature is great, but I think there is some calculation error.
For example, it found my best activity for 1K as 4:15. Garmin connect has this activity as my best 1K with 4:25. Also importing the activity to excel and analyze it, the calculation come with the same value as Garmin connect suggested 4:25.
Intervals.icu shows gradient adjusted pace by default and that gives your best 1k as 4:15. If you untick the “Gradient adjusted pace” box then your best 1k is 4:25.
Unfortunately not unless you can edit the fit file somehow and change that last 4997 record to 5000m. You can’t do that in Intervals.icu yet.
I have added a “Ignore pace” option to remove activities from best efforts and pace curves. On the activity timeline chart do Actions → Settings and tick the box.
Can I suggest adding best pace effort adjusted to temperature and Humidity (Dew point) as an option like you have for gradient adjust pace.
Now here in Florida the temperature and humidity are brutal, and I think it will be great feature to see how you are doing with your progress in this long summer.
There are some resources that described the estimated pace change based on the sum of Temperature + Dew point.
Like the pace analysis for running, but the Pace tab does not fully work for me: the pace curves are “empty”… In fact, I can hover over the curves and get the values for the different distances – but the curves themselves are never shown:-o
This would be problematic IMO. There is no hitherto standard way to adjust to temperature and humidity universally, although some rough adjustments exist. Plus, I think there’d need to be a way to take wind speed into account as well, because air temperature + wind speed can multiply the effects.
What I’ve learned from coaching experience is that people’s perception of heat is slightly different, depending on the fat mass they carry and acclimatization. Some just have more capacity to run in the heat.
I’m in support of not complicating this feature any more. Runners are best advised to manually make adjustments based on their environment and local guidelines.
I suggested as an option that can be turn off/on. I know that there isn’t standard for the temperature and humidity adjustments. I think that there are some research done about the estimated performance change.
This feature should not be treated as absolute accuracy, but as some general guidance for yourself where you stand in your performance in the 6 months of training in the black hole summer.
As one that run now in combined dew + temperature values between 150 to 160 , and it will not going to change for few months it will be very helpful feature to try to try to assess where are you standing without waiting for the cooler days.
With excel I am using this Polynomial Curve Fit:
P3 = -1.23566E-11 P2 = 1.22747E-05 P = 0.0002741 C = 0.000294794
Y=P3X3^3 + P2X^2+P *X + C
Using this adjustment is only for (Dew point + Temperature(f) ) above 100.
The input X is (Dew point + Temperature(f) -100) . The output Y is the adjusting factor for the pace needed in percentage.
was this too crazy? my 5K PR is not displayed as it was capture as 4.99K, it’d be interesting to have the opposite of “ignore pace” , meaning “include pace” for those workouts that came to ICU as 4.99 instead of 5K, this or as you said, when you fix the distance to 5k in ICU it´s taken into consideration for pace efforts and not just the UI showing 5K as the distance
I would need to add better support for editing data for this. You would need to add on an extra data point to make up to 5k distance to get it recorded as a PR. I have put this on the todo list.
If you can find a tool to let you edit the last data point of your run you could do that so long.
is it possible to do remove a single pace achievement alone instead of marking the whole activity as ignore from pace records?
reason for this is I have a 100 meters pace achievement that was basically a GPS issue, but also in the same activity I have a legit 5K time I’d like to keep?
I can try that but it will have an impact on the total time of the workout wouldn’t and ultimately impacting the legit 5K time? Is it feasible to add option to dismiss an auto detected pace achievement when GPS goes bad like in my case? Thx
It’s a bit more complicated than just removing the achievement. Those are generated from the stored distance/time curve for the activity. Even if the achievement was gone the 100m time would remain on the curve and mask future real 100m PBs.
For power you could just edit the power trace for the activity. It’s much harder to do something like that for pace.
I see, thx for the comment.
If it’s not feasible, then I’ll have to decide whether to dismiss the workout or stop tracking 100 pace achievements I guess, I’m not a sprinter either.
It was just nice to have best pace times from short distances too(eg 100 and 200)
