How do I get estimated load for future workouts?

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I am moving from TrainingPeaks to intervals.icu. Really enjoying the fresher look (and less onerous pricing!)

I am a runner and my main goal is to schedule workouts and forecast fitness / fatigue. I don’t get into really structured workouts like intervals etc.

On TrainingPeaks I am able to estimate the load for each workout by putting in distance, duration/pace and an intensity factor (which I have come to know what is right for me).

How do I replicate or produce this functionality in Intervals? From what I can see it just allows me to specify duration in minutes and overall load - is there a way to get it to help me work out what that load will likely be?

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Assume you have imported your workouts?
Drag the workout to your library which will create a workout. Then look at the data in the workout to see how your “feel” translates to load.

I know that if I ride at a certain intensity, I’ll get a corresponding load (TSS), which is not far from actual. That assumes I actually stick to the planned session.

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Thanks.

So to be clear, there’s no way to flex the TSS based on length? So I need to remember what the TSS is for a 60 minute workout at a certain pace vs a 45 minute one?

Feels like a much worse solution that TP which calculates estimates TSS for me.

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Easiest and simpliest solution is to make some basic workouts based on your desired pace or duration etc. and populate with them your calendar. You can use library for that, it will take 10 minutes to create a libaary of 20-30 most commonly used by you distances and paces. The you can drag drop them on your calendar and look how the fitness graph is changing.

I mean for me when I add a 5k run @ z2 or any other zone it give me my expected load.

Probably for load to work correctly you need your ftp pace and hr zones to be set in settings menu. But hope someone with much more running exp will help (i`m a cyclist)

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Load will calculate if you have your zones set and you put in some structure. It can be very simple like
-10mi z2 pace
Or
-1h z2 pace
The distance one will also set the estimated duration.

If you set the estimated duration (which is what it sounds like you’re doing) load won’t calculate.

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