Load calculation for planned workout

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In workout builder when you define a power or pace range for a step, the load for that step is calculated with the average value. So if I put in a rage of 200-300w, load will be calculated with 250w.

For easy runs I like to put put an upper limit for my power or pace, so I input a large range below the upper limit, so my watch doesn’t nag me if I go below some arbitrary limit. This however means that my load estimations are always too low and I can’t judge my future fitness in the fitness tab very well.

What are my options? I know I can manually enter load for the whole workout, but that gets reset every time I copy or duplicate a workout. It’s also tedious to remove bottom values from the range to see what the load would be and then fix it after saving the workout with the full ranges.

I feel like I would just like the workout to just use the upper values of the range and overestimate the load. But that is only true for easy zones, not so much for harder ones. Or perhaps just tell the workout with what value each step’s load should be calculated. Or is there some feature I don’t know about that I can already use?

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Don’t get caught up on the exact load for a workout, and rather look at what the goal of the session is. Also, try not be a slave to your device warning you. You mention easy runs (so assume it’s actually low intensity), you can easily set it to the mid-range and then execute the plan. A plan doesn’t have to be 100% for it to be successful. 90% can also yield similar results but with less fatigue (duration dependent, of course).

If you haven’t learnt how the effort should feel, I can understand you might want the indication when below, or above, the limits. However this also leads to additional stress (anxiety) for continually looking to be in zone and worrying about when it’s too high/low.