# Custom workouts and PLs

**URL:** <https://www.trainerroad.com/forum/t/custom-workouts-and-pls/100948>\
**Category:** TrainerRoad Software\
**Created:** [February 18, 2025, 4:38pm UTC](https://www.trainerroad.com/forum/t/custom-workouts-and-pls/100948 "2025-02-18T16:38:35Z")\
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**Author:** ![Yep](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/trainerroad/forum/user_avatar/www.trainerroad.com/yep/32/67179_2.png) [@Yep](https://www.trainerroad.com/forum/u/Yep)\
**Post date:** [February 18, 2025, 4:38pm UTC](https://www.trainerroad.com/forum/t/custom-workouts-and-pls/100948/1 "2025-02-18T16:38:35Z")

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I played around with the workout creator today with an eye to seeing if I could create and score workouts that better fit my available terrain. I built some threshold intervals and the PLs seemed to check out against similar workouts in the library. I was able to keep adding hill reps on and see the PLs go up. Are there types of workouts that I should avoid creating as custom because the PLs will be off?

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**Author:** ![mcneese.chad](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/trainerroad/forum/user_avatar/www.trainerroad.com/mcneese.chad/32/15056_2.png) [@mcneese.chad](https://www.trainerroad.com/forum/u/mcneese.chad)\
**Post date:** [February 18, 2025, 4:43pm UTC](https://www.trainerroad.com/forum/t/custom-workouts-and-pls/100948/2 "2025-02-18T16:43:26Z")

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Ones with sharp sprints seems to trigger excessive PL from what I have seen.

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**Author:** ![ZackeryWeimer](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/trainerroad/forum/user_avatar/www.trainerroad.com/zackeryweimer/32/118962_2.png) [@ZackeryWeimer](https://www.trainerroad.com/forum/u/ZackeryWeimer)\
**Post date:** [February 18, 2025, 6:24pm UTC](https://www.trainerroad.com/forum/t/custom-workouts-and-pls/100948/3 "2025-02-18T18:24:26Z")

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As @mcneese.chad mentioned, sharp sprints seem to throw things off…

On the whole, though, we can’t “endorse” the Workout Levels that get assigned (automatically) to custom workouts. Currently, Workout Levels are calculated _uniquely_ for custom workouts (i.e., separately/independently from “official” TR workouts) and are therefore not comparable to the Workout Levels of workouts in the TrainerRoad library.

It sounds like you’ve got the right idea of how to make things work… But just do beware that things won’t necessarily be a perfect match when tracking WLs/PLs.