Compare a workout with earlier ones

The Compare tab puts a completed workout next to up to four earlier ones of the same sport, so you can see at a glance whether an athlete is progressing: more power on the same climb, a lower heart rate at the same pace. You can use it on all your athletes' workouts; your athletes use it on their own with Premium.

Open Compare

1. Open a completed workout from the athlete's Calendar.
2. Select the Compare tab.
3. On the left, Workouts to compare lists the athlete's other workouts of the same sport: those with the same name first, then the last 90 days. Use Search by name to find older ones.
4. Tick up to 4. Up to two workouts with the same name are ticked for you.

The chart

• Each workout has its own colour; This workout is blue.
• Choose what to draw in the dropdown: power, heart rate, speed (pace on runs and swims) or cadence.
• Altitude adds each workout's elevation profile behind the lines.
• Distance / Time lines the workouts up by distance covered or by time elapsed. Distance works best on the same route.
• Smoothing evens out the lines. Drag across the chart to zoom in, and Zoom out to go back.
• Hover over the chart to see the value of every workout at that moment.

A workout without a recording, for example one entered by hand, appears only in the table.

The numbers

A table puts the workouts side by side: Duration, Distance, Average power, Weighted Avg Power, Average heart rate, Power per heartbeat, Effort, Intensity Factor, Elevation gain and Work (kJ). Each earlier workout shows its difference from this one in %.

Power per heartbeat is the weighted average power divided by the average heart rate. When it rises on the same kind of session, the athlete is producing more power for the same cardiac effort: a sign of better aerobic fitness. A short note points out the main change, for example Power per heartbeat is 6% higher than on Sep 30: more power for the same effort.

Good to know

• Compare works on completed workouts.
• Pace is worked out over at least 20 seconds, so a GPS jump doesn't show as a spike.
• You compare an athlete's workouts with their own, not with another athlete's.