This is what I have so far (not live yet!):
Workout steps can have targets for power, HR, pace and/or cadence. Which targets are used depends on a per sport athlete setting:
So two athletes can use the same running workout with HR and pace targets and one trains by pace and the other HR.
One question: What is the slowest run you might do in terms of your threshold pace? Need this to pick the slower end of the y-axis on the bar chart.
I would say 70% should be the slowest, it’s normally the minimum value for cooldown in TrainingPeaks.
If you have Threshold: 04:28 min/km, 70% it will be 6:15 min/km
If I plan an interval workout by pace, I will probably have some walking (recovery) sections - especially if including sprints.
I’m not sure walking pace aligns with a percentage of threshold pace, but I think 3mph / 20 min/mile (12.5 min/km?) would work for most.
Edited to add: It would make sense to me if 0% running pace equated to walking pace. Kind of like how with Heart Rate Reserve 0% equates to resting (or orthostatic ideally) heart rate.
The min value on the bar chart is now 70% of threshold pace or the 90% of the slowest pace in the workout, whichever is lower.
This is almost done. You can choose to perform a workout by power, HR or pace (or auto which will select based on your workout order for the sport). This is also useful when building workouts for others to see the different version on the chart:
I need to add a range for pace targets like for power and HR here:
What would be a reasonable default?
Love it so far!
I think Garmin is usually around 2.5% for the range on pace, but it also depends on which suggested workout I have used.
Any chance there will be a distance option added with all of this?
Say 9:00/mi for 2 miles?
Tx. I have been thinking about how to do that. The problem is that everything about the workout editor (and backing generators for different files and platforms) expects there to be a duration. The other issue is that workouts on pace are portable between athletes whereas distance based ones would have different load for different athletes and so on.
What I could do is add a little calculator in the pace step dialog to compute the duration. So you enter miles and and mins/mile and it fills in the duration and %pace based on the threshold pace of the selected athlete.
Would be an option!
Another point, would it be possible to add Pace in customisable charts like in “Fitness” and “Compare”? eg. Avg HR over Pace
Yes I should add pace versions of various power stats. Going to have to work on the UX for the plot selector. It’s hard to find things already.
I am also going to add a pace distance curve (so you can see that you have done 5m/km for 10km or whatever, like the power curve) with analogous best times for various distances. Still figuring out exactly how to do that.
