Unfilled workout fields count against weekly ride targets

When I plan workouts I usually only care about a single metric from load/time/distance. I sometimes care about 2 of these, such as load and time. I almost never care about all 3. Because of this, I very often leave at least 1 of these fields blank. When looking at the planned weekly totals though, the blank fields are treated as if I had put 0. This means that if I plan a week with load only, the time and distance is shown as out of compliance on the weekly totals.

In the screenshot, monday’s ride had no planned time or distance, tues/wed/fri had no planned distance, and my Saturday race has no planned load. The weekly compliance view on the left is essentially useless in this type of scenario. It shows my week as out of compliance even though I have done exactly what I meant to do so far (hit my load target on monday’s ride, which had no other targets).

I would prefer one of the following:

  • Blank fields treated as if they are equal to completed equivalent. e.g. a workout without a planned time is treated as if the matched activity’s time was exactly the planned time
  • Blank fields cause that metric to be excluded entirely from the weekly totals. e.g. a workout without a planned time causes that matched activity’s time to be excluded from the weekly total

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Unfortunately the system assumes that in a given week for a given sport you will be planning constantly by load and/or time and/or distance and not mixing it up. This stuff is already really complicated (for users and us!) so I suggest filling in reasonable values for the unspecified parts of planned workouts.

I’m not sure that’s a realistic expectation. Most of the time I want to train with load and time and distance doesn’t matter, but races are essentially always distance based and I have no real idea what my load will be.

It was also extremely confusing to me that it shows 6h19m/55mi/137 completed when i had only done a single activity for the week. It took me forever to figure out what had happened.