Relative Effort
Relative Effort is an analysis of your heart rate data. By tracking your heart rate through your workout and its level relative to your maximum heart rate, we attach a value to show exactly how hard you worked. The more time you spend going full gas and the longer your activity, the higher the score. Compare your Relative Effort with friends and pros, see if you can do a truly epic workout, and motivate yourself to push that extra bit harder! Relative Effort was inspired by the concept of TRIMP (TRaining IMPulse) coined by Dr. Eric Bannister.
Perceived Exertion
Perceived Exertion lets you manually record how intense your efforts feel on a 1-10 scale ranging from “Easy” to “Max Effort.” When tracking how difficult a workout feels overall, Perceived Exertion can stand in for an athlete’s heart rate data. That means Perceived Exertion can power features that otherwise require heart rate data, like Relative Effort and Fitness. Add Perceived Exertion to activities for a layer of qualitative data, or when you happen to forget your heart rate monitor.
Energy Output
Energy Output measures the amount of work you've done during a ride, expressed in kilojoules (KJ). It is a factor of how much you're pedaling, how fast you're pedaling and how much force you're exerting on the pedals (measured in W). Power output is most accurately taken from a power meter, but if you don't have a power meter we give a rough approximation through our power estimator.
Average Power
Average power reflects your average power value during a ride, expressed in Watts (a measure of how much energy you are exerting onto the pedals). This is inclusive of the entire ride and takes coasting into account as well. Average power is most accurately measured with a power meter, though if you don't have a power meter we give a rough approximation through our power estimator.
VAM
VAM measures your Vertical Ascent in Meters/hour – it measures how quickly you are traveling upward. VAM is useful for comparing your effort on different hills and segments, and is used by both cyclists and runners. To get a high VAM score, grades between 6-10% generally present the best opportunity to ascend quickly, as they are steep enough to avoid wind, and gradual enough to allow unrestricted motion.
Intensity
Intensity is our way of showing how difficult a ride was as compared to your FTP. We look at your Weighted Average Power for the ride and compare it to your FTP. If your Weighted Average Power was 250W and your FTP 300W, the Intensity would be 83%. It's very possible to have an Intensity of over 100% if the ride was shorter than an hour.
- Endurance / Recovery Ride – 65% and lower
- Moderate Ride – 65-80%
- Tempo Ride – 80-95%
- Time Trial or Race – 95-105%
- Short Time Trial or Race – 105% and higher
- All-time Personal Records = a runner's fastest time ever run over a distance in an official race, or over a verified, known distance
- Estimated Best Efforts = training level insight into GPS based activities
- All-time Personal Records = a runner's fastest time ever run over a distance in an official race, or over a verified, known distance
- Estimated Best Efforts = training level insight into GPS based activities
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